A little update:
Turns out that it really ISN'T for real.

Kinda removes the sarcasm aspect & makes your statements somewhat more
real than intended, huh?

Charlie


wrote:

Well, it looks like President Bush (Or Hitler, as he's known among certain
circles) has staged another Hollywood style "Terrorist Plot" that he can use to
destroy our civil rights.

And this one involves small planes.

Of course, it's not possible that it's for real. There's no way that terrorists
would ever consider using small planes packed with explosives to do this in the
US. So we, as pilots, shouldn't keep an eye open for anything strange going on
at our local airports.

sarcsasm off

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Report: Saudi Police Foil Airliner Attack

Reuters
Saturday, December 27, 2003; 6:52 PM

By Peter Graff

LONDON (Reuters) - Saudi security forces have seized light planes packed with
explosives near Riyadh's King Khalid airport, foiling a plot by suicide pilots
to blow up a Western airliner on the runway, a British newspaper said on Sunday.


Two pilots apparently intended to crash their light planes into a Western jet as
it taxied slowly on the tarmac, the Mail on Sunday quoted Patrick Mercer,
homeland security policy chief for Britain's opposition Conservative Party as
saying.

"My understanding is that (the light planes) were found on the flight line and
that the plan was to fly them into a passenger jet either about to land or take
off," Mercer told the paper.

The two pilots were among several people arrested after the planes were
discovered some time in the past few weeks, the paper said.

It said British Airways was believed to be the most likely target, although
several other European carriers also use the airport.

A BA spokesman said the airline had no knowledge of the incident described in
the paper.

"We are in regular contact with the Saudi authorities and the British government
and we wouldn't fly unless it was completely safe to do so," a spokesman said.
"We haven't changed our flights to or from Saudi Arabia."

BA suspended flights to the oil-rich Gulf kingdom in August citing a security
threat, but the airline resumed flying the following month after a review.

Mercer was not available to elaborate on his remarks and the British Foreign
Office said it was not aware of the incident.

Britain and the United States have both warned of possible threats to Western
aviation targets in Saudi Arabia over the past few months.

Saudi Arabia, birthplace of suspected September 11, 2001, mastermind Osama bin
Laden, has seen a wave of strikes by militants this year, including major
suicide bombings at housing compounds in May and November that killed more than
50 people.

Police and militants have had frequent shootouts. The government has rounded up
hundreds of suspects and says it has seized massive caches of explosives and
weapons.