A US Airways jetliner en route from Paris to Charlotte, North
Carolina, has been diverted to Bangor, Maine, for a "security issue,"
airline spokesman Andrew Christie told CNN.
A Transportation Safety Administration statement said the plane
has landed safely in Bangor.
"TSA is aware of reports of a passenger who exhibited
suspicious behavior during flight. Out of an abundance of caution the flight
was diverted to BGR where it was met by law enforcement," the statement
said.
Al Qaeda bomb maker
known for "brutality"
This undated file photo released Oct. 31, 2010, by Saudi
Arabia's Ministry of Interior purports to show Ibrahim Hassan
al-Asiri. (AP Photo/Saudi Arabia Ministry of Interior)
(AP) DUBAI, United
Arab Emirates - Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri has built a reputation as al Qaeda's
bomb-making savant one potential near miss at time: Explosive-rigged underwear
aboard a Christmas flight to the U.S. in 2009, printers fitted with high-grade
explosives the next year and now possibly a metal-free device that could avoid
airport detectors.
Before those failed
attempts, he staged an even more audacious attack: Turning his own brother into
a suicide bomber in a mission that injured Saudi Arabia's top counterterrorism
official and was later decried by the U.S. State Department for its "brutality,
novelty and sophistication."
Cassi
Creek: This type of event, a plane
diverted from its original flight plan is going to become more common as the
drive by Muslim extremists to down another U.S. aircraft becomes stronger. The hatred of the U.S. by Al Queda in Yemen
is perhaps greater than that displayed by bin Laden’s original gangs of
terrorists.
There will be no negotiations with
this band of murderers. There will be no
intercession by more moderate religious leaders. These fanatics believe their orders come from
Allah and that the higher the death toll they create, the greater their reward
in their imagined after life. There is
no way to reason with religious fanatics who believe they are commanded by a
deity.
The complexity of this designer’s
bombs has become greater over time. Our
public announcements, when we locate one of his bombs, tells him more about how
we are blocking his goals. It would be
better, in my opinion, if his bomb carriers simply vanished, providing him no
feedback.
Until we can locate and execute this
terrorist our passengers and planes will be at increased risk of assassination. I have absolutely no qualms about using every
means at our disposal to eliminate this.
Nor should Obama. Every terrorist
removed lessens the risk to U.S. and other country’s air passengers. Every terrorist removed should translate into
votes for Obama in November.
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