Report confirms terror dry run

A newly released inspector general report backs eyewitness accounts of suspicious behavior by 13 Middle Eastern men on a Northwest Airlines flight in 2004 and reveals several missteps by government officials, including failure to file an incident report until a month after the matter became public. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Edward Haskins - May 30, 2007 - 12:00 PM PDT
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Rory O'Connor
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by Rory O'Connor - Oct. 1, 2008

Back n 2004, the Internet ws filled with reports of eyewitness accounts of suspicious behavior by 13 Middle Eastern men on a Northwest Airlines flight from Detroit to Los Angeles. Years later, we find out via this followup that a newly-released Homeland Security report reveals several missteps by government officials, including failure to file an incident report about the "suspicious passengers," until after the matter became public. Now air marshals quoted in the article say it confirms their earlier suspicions that the event was a 'dry run" for a terror operation.

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Edward Haskins
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by Edward Haskins - Oct. 1, 2008

Good report on lack of security and government cover-up of security problems. Makes me wonder what else Home Land Security is hiding from Americans.

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