ABEL
An Angel In Devil's Shoes
my trip to NYC for Halloween better not get messed up tho
i usually take southwest airlines too, but they don't fly to nyc so i'll probably be taking american or delta.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/10/17/suspicious.baggage/index.html
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration ordered security searches of all U.S. commercial aircraft Friday after suspicious baggage was found in the bathrooms of two Southwest Airlines flights, U.S. officials told CNN.
The FBI is also investigating.
The bags, which were similar, were found Thursday night after the planes landed in Houston, Texas, and New Orleans, Louisiana.
The bags contained box cutters, the devices that were used in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks; a clay substance that resembled plastic explosive, and what is believed to be bleach, which investigators say could be thrown in someone's face to incapacitate them.
The bleach was disguised in bottles of suntan lotion; the clay was disguised as Play-Doh, sources said.
There was at least one note in one of the bags suggesting security is not as tight as it should be, sources said. An administration source told CNN that the note indicated that while the TSA was going a good job, the baggage with the suspicious items still got on board.
One flight was from Austin, Texas, to Houston; the second from Orlando, Florida, to New Orleans.
As a precautionary measure officials tell CNN that the Department of Homeland Security and the TSA have directed that all commercial aircraft in the U.S. fleet be searched by security personnel within the next 24 hours.
"We are working with the Department of Homeland Security on the discovery of items found late yesterday," an FBI spokeswoman said.
i usually take southwest airlines too, but they don't fly to nyc so i'll probably be taking american or delta.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/10/17/suspicious.baggage/index.html
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration ordered security searches of all U.S. commercial aircraft Friday after suspicious baggage was found in the bathrooms of two Southwest Airlines flights, U.S. officials told CNN.
The FBI is also investigating.
The bags, which were similar, were found Thursday night after the planes landed in Houston, Texas, and New Orleans, Louisiana.
The bags contained box cutters, the devices that were used in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks; a clay substance that resembled plastic explosive, and what is believed to be bleach, which investigators say could be thrown in someone's face to incapacitate them.
The bleach was disguised in bottles of suntan lotion; the clay was disguised as Play-Doh, sources said.
There was at least one note in one of the bags suggesting security is not as tight as it should be, sources said. An administration source told CNN that the note indicated that while the TSA was going a good job, the baggage with the suspicious items still got on board.
One flight was from Austin, Texas, to Houston; the second from Orlando, Florida, to New Orleans.
As a precautionary measure officials tell CNN that the Department of Homeland Security and the TSA have directed that all commercial aircraft in the U.S. fleet be searched by security personnel within the next 24 hours.
"We are working with the Department of Homeland Security on the discovery of items found late yesterday," an FBI spokeswoman said.
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