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>Fighter Patrols Resume over NY, Washington-Sources

THANK YOU Savage Kamakazie Islamic Bastards!!!

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> WASHINGTON (Reuters) – With the anniversary approaching of > the Sept. 11 attacks on America, the U.S. military has resumed > 24-hour air patrols by fighter jets over Washington and New York, > U.S. officials said on Friday.

Only terminally stupid people like the shoe bomber, and the bimbo and her boyfriend recently caught in Germany, would be so moronic as to try something on September 11.  As we witnessed on July 4th, nothing at all will happen on 9/11/2002.  The terrorists will strike on a day of no importance at all, which in case everyone has forgotten – and they have – was the case for 9/11 (September 11 was just another beautiful autumn day, with no significance whatsoever, until now).  I’d be a lot more concerned about Jewish holidays than 9/11. Casey

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In the past 2 days, I have noticed increased police patrols and presence in and around Dorval airport in Montreal. Even saw one couple of cops on bikes. The police patrol the stretch of road behind the AC hangars, but they haven’t closed it off.

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[snip] >Sorry for the criticism here, but of all the countries of the world, the USA >isn’t exactly the one who should be telling others that having "weapons of >mass destruction" is illegal. >If, as long as you don’t use them, having such weapons is acceptable (as is >the case for the USA for instance), then as long as Irak doesn’t use whatever >it has built, then it should be allowed to have them.

I’m very much against a war. War will penalise the ordinary citizens and unwilling conscripts of Iraq, without making the world a safer place for anyone else. Just look what happened last time round. But looking at the past record of Saddam Hussein, I’d much rather trust the US with possession of "weapons of mass destruction". I believe that most Iraqis who are in a position to speak freely would agree. >If they truly fear Irak, then just place heavy duty surveillance satellites >over Irak and intercept any type of weapon Irak sends outside of its own >country boudaries.

That won’t be technically possible any time soon. >If Hussain uses weapons against his own people, it is a united nations "human >rights" issue, not a worldwide security issue.

The trouble with these ‘united nations "human rights" issue’ is that nothing much is usually done about them. Remember what happened to the Kurds and the residents of Southern Iraq once everyone forgot about them? — Simon Elliott                      

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Fighter Patrols Resume over NY, Washington-Sources Sat Sep 7,12:32 AM ET By Charles Aldinger WASHINGTON (Reuters) – With the anniversary approaching of the Sept. 11 attacks on America, the U.S. military has resumed 24-hour air patrols by fighter jets over Washington and New York, U.S. officials said on Friday. The officials, who asked not to be identified, told Reuters that the patrols — designed to prevent hijack attacks like the ones that destroyed New York’s World Trade Center and heavily damaged the Pentagon (news-web sites) — resumed on Thursday. "With members of Congress flying to New York, and the anniversary approaching, it was decided that the patrols should resume" indefinitely, one of the officials told Reuters. The U.S. Congress met in New York on Friday for the first time in more than 200 years to mark next week’s anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks that killed about 3,000 people. Pentagon officials refused to confirm or deny whether or not the patrol flights had been resumed. Spokesman Glenn Flood said, "All I can say is that we have adequate patrols." The officials refused to comment on a CBS News report that the patrols were resumed due to increased Internet "chatter" or communications among known operatives of al Qaeda, the militant network the United States blames for the attacks. U.S. intelligence agencies have recently picked up a somewhat higher level of "chatter," or information about potential threats, but there was nothing specific and nothing to indicate that a terror attack was being planned for the Sept. 11 anniversary, a U.S. official told Reuters. "It’s at a heightened level, but not as high as around the Fourth of July," the official said on condition of anonymity. "Threat information comes in every day. Are we on a real high trend? No. Is there information coming in? Yes." The official added that U.S. security agencies were being vigilant around the anniversary, but there was no information suggesting that a terror attack was planned. AROUND THE CLOCK FLIGHTS The air patrols involving F-16 fighters and other jets flown by both Air National Guard pilots and regular Air Force personnel, will fly regular missions over the two cities around the clock, as they began doing after the attacks. The pilots could be used, with tight restrictions, to shoot down a commercial airliner if it appeared to be headed for a sensitive ground target, according to officials. In March, patrols were reduced over New York City and later over Washington to a mix of regular flights and "strip alerts" involving planes standing by at military and civilian airports to be scrambled into the air on very short notice. Patrols have, meanwhile, also been continued on an intermittent basis over other key areas of the country, including other possible targets such as nuclear plants. Before the patrols were reduced, they had tied up more than 200 fighter jets and 10,000 Air Force personnel at 30 bases across the country. Air Force officials said they had caused wear on equipment and stress on personnel, costing more than $502 million between last September and January alone. The Pentagon recently tightened up Air Force responses to emergencies after a June 19 incident in Washington in which fighter jets from nearby Andrews Air Force Base were scrambled too late to intercept a small private airplane that wandered into restricted airspace near the White House. President Bush (news-web sites) was in town at the time, but the aircraft, whose pilot was apparently unaware of the restrictions, flew out of the area before Air National Guard jets could intercept it. After the embarrassing incident, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said communications between the Federal Aviation Administration (news-web sites) and the Defense Department would be improved.

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> WASHINGTON (Reuters) – With the anniversary approaching of the Sept. 11 > attacks on America, the U.S. military has resumed 24-hour air patrols by > fighter jets over Washington and New York, U.S. officials said on > Friday.

Instead of striving to remember the victims (and survivors who were traumatized) of the catastrophe, I think that the Bush administration is doing everythingit can to instill fear and keep the threath of terrorism very alive, in order to help justify the unwanted attacks on Irak. While every effort must be made to remember the catastrophe, Bush jr should also diplomatically tell the USA to "get over it, rebuild, and get back to normal". He is doing the very opposite. Bush Jr is to speak at the UN on Sept 12. My fear is that he will not go there to seek support for a future action against irak but rather will go there to explain why he couldn’t wait and had to start attacking Irak on sept 11. Sorry for the criticism here, but of all the countries of the world, the USA isn’t exactly the one who should be telling others that having "weapons of mass destruction" is illegal. If, as long as you don’t use them, having such weapons is acceptable (as is the case for the USA for instance), then as long as Irak doesn’t use whatever it has built, then it should be allowed to have them. If they truly fear Irak, then just place heavy duty surveillance satellites over Irak and intercept any type of weapon Irak sends outside of its own country boudaries. If Hussain uses weapons against his own people, it is a united nations "human rights" issue, not a worldwide security issue.

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