Target of Terror Plot: Las Vegas?
 

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,106711,00.html

LOS ANGELES ? Air France resumed service between Paris and Los Angeles on Friday after grounding six flights over the Christmas holidays, an action taken because of a terror threat that may have involved crashing an airplane in Las Vegas.

Quoting unnamed intelligence officials, The Washington Post reported that the only big city along its normal Paris-L.A. route is Las Vegas (search). One official described the popular gambling and entertainment destination as "a nice, attractive target."

Al Qaeda (search), the terror network operated by Usama bin Laden (search), has long considered Las Vegas a potential strike site, the Post reported. Because of that interest, the U.S. government recently installed outdoor air-handling sensors in Las Vegas that detect biological pathogens that might be released by terrorists.

Officials told the Post that other cities, including Los Angeles, may also have been the target for terrorists.

On Christmas Eve, Air France announced that it was canceling six international flights in and out of Los Angeles because of terror fears. The flights were to resume Friday, Air France officials said.

The flight cancellations added to Christmas holiday tensions that have been high since President Bush raised the national terror alert level to orange, the second highest level, on Sunday. U.S. security officials have been closely monitoring activity at airports, train stations and public buildings.

The Air France flights, scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, were canceled after U.S. officials passed on information they deemed credible about security threats from passengers flying from Paris to Los Angeles, U.S. and European officials said Wednesday.

Three of the canceled flights were headed to Los Angeles and three more were returning to Paris.

A spokesman for French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin (search) said the decision to cancel the flights came early Wednesday after American authorities notified France that "two or three" suspicious people, possibly Tunisian nationals, were planning to board the flights.

The French Interior ministry said the United States handed French authorities the names of suspicious people who may have intended to board the flights but no people by those names went through airport security checks, and no arrests were made. French television station LCI reported that U.S. authorities believed members of Al Qaeda (search) may have been planning to board the planes.

It was unclear who ordered the cancellations. The Interior Ministry said the flights were canceled at the request of the U.S. Embassy in Paris. A spokesman for Raffarin said the United States had threatened to refuse the planes permission to land if they took off. But U.S. officials refused to confirm that they had requested the cancellations.

The U.S. Homeland Security Department (search) had been meeting with French officials in recent days over concerns about a possible terrorist attack.

U.S. officials were in intense security talks with officials from several other countries too. One industry official, speaking only on condition of anonymity, said a Mexican airline, Aeromexico, was another focus of U.S. security officials' concern.

A Homeland Security official in Washington, also speaking on condition of anonymity, said the U.S. government has been working with a number of governments overseas to help them improve airport security in the wake of the credible threats against airliners originating overseas and headed to the United States.

The official said American officials had passed on to other governments a "very credible threat" of possible attacks originating overseas.

American officials said the U.S. government was comparing data it had compiled on passengers preparing to board flights entering the United States, as well as data on the flight crews on those flights, with terrorist watch lists it has compiled.

U.S. officials have been working to get foreign airlines to provide American officials with more passenger information on people aboard the flights that originate overseas and travel to the United States, said an official who spoke this week on condition of anonymity. France and Mexico were of particular concern in this regard, the official said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Las Vegas is indeed a target of choice by those fuckers, it's always crowded.

So for all those attending internext is this going to change your mind about going?

If there is one of those bastards on our plane, I will rip the son of a bitch's eyeballs out of his sockets. :mad: :mad: :mad:

Im driving cause i cant bring my smoke on the plane..

Not ever going to live my life in fear..anything could happen at anytime.No use fretting about it.

agreed!

C_U_Next_Tuesday -"Not ever going to live my life in fear..anything could happen at anytime.No use fretting about it."

Unless it's the pilot. Now the cockpit is heavily protected from the outside :Graucho

Well said RJ and CU, I have no fear but it just pisses me off...it makes me madder than hell rather than fearful.



:321GFY terrorists

All I have to say is see you in Vegas:thumbsup :feels-hot

It makes me nervous not so much for myself but because I'm pregnant and I don't really want to imagine anything happening to my baby.. But it's not going to prevent me going. I'm just going to be very watchful and ready to change plans last moment (good thing I bought cancellation insurance anyways, in case of medical emergencies).

It totally pisses me off with all the hate.. but I spent way too many years being pissed off at everything to start again now..lol

I just live my life to the fulllest of my abilities and try to do things that make me and mine happy.

But i wouldnt hesitate to rip eyeballs out of sockets right along side of ya :winkwink:

I'm not going to internext but I hope the folks that are going have a good time and this doesn't put them off!!

lets give france a round of applause.
the US had to warn them about what's going on in *their* country.
Fuck the french

im staying at the office, my crew will man our booth.
despite the hightened alert notice, im still confident that
US government have their hands full on this terror plot.
God Bless America :thumbsup

I understand what you mean Lady, I have three girls at home ... but I also think along the lines of CU.

We cannot allow them to get the best of us by causing fear. I applaud the Homeland security for asking the flights to be halted even if they deny it. Prevention and intelligence is the key to fighting the rat bastards.

Hank, I look forward to seeing you :thumbsup

Las Vegas is the 'place of sins' and therefore a very religious target wouldnt it be?

See ya in Vegas! :thumbsup

They won't stop us!

Yep.. being fearful about it is wasteful, but being cautious is NEVER a bad thing. I'd rather be careful and wary and ready than fearful and not thinking clearly, or do some thing stupid :)

That is what I was thinking FTV :) what better place to bomb other than "Sin City".

Let's hope they don't target the venetian. :1orglaugh

My advice.

As a former Federal Police Officer.

NO YOUR WAY OUT.

I cannot stress this enough, when your in your hotel room,
no were the stairwells and emergency exits are.

When your in the Convention Hall, locate and remember
where the exits that lead you outside are.

Avoid the crowded long exits that many will take thinking
this is the way out.

This could save your life in a fire, bombing or whatever
could happen.


Don't just 'look' with your eyes, "SEE" with your eyes.
Be aware of your surroundings and who is there.

If you see something weird or suspicous and it peeks your
interest, it could very well be something that the security or police
need to know about.



These are daily routines for Law Enforcement, both trained and
practiced regularly to keep them safe, it got me through some
serious shit a few times.


Now, I can seel Porn and be safer...
:Graucho

And what do you do if the plane crashed into your hotel and the stairwells and emergency exits do not exist anymore and you are stuck on the 30th floor?

It makes me a bit concerned, since I live here full-time. I'd be more concerned that they would pull something New Years Eve then during Internext, lot more people out on the street.

But I agree, makes me mad more than anything, every time people get fearful to travel somewhere, the fucks win, and I don't want that to happen.

:ak47: Take that Terrorists!

I must agree with the concerned thing.. if u arnt at least a bit concerned, your a perfect target.

this is a reason for some concern:
Al Qaeda, the terror network operated by Usama bin Laden has long considered Las Vegas a potential strike site, the Post reported. Because of that interest, the U.S. government recently installed outdoor air-handling sensors in Las Vegas that detect biological pathogens that might be released by terrorists.

new years will have more people..and so will CES Expo the days after Internext.
but lets just hope the threat is all alot of talk and no action.

:1orglaugh
i think its yes your way out

I really can't see Las Vegas air space getting penetrated by another hijacked plane. It'd be shot down over the desert before it gets there. They'd have to hijack it right there.

The best way to do Vegas would be to drive a loaded truck up next to the hotels. That also isn't easy to pull off because you need a lot of stuff to do it that they are keeping a close eye on now.

The only way a plane could have a chance of taking out a building would be if it took off at a major airport and got jacked right away and was within striking distance within a minute or two so the Air Force wouldn't have time to react or if it came in over the border at virtually ground level altitude..

Los Angeles is perfect. The distance from LAX to downtown LA is very short and there are lots of tall targets.

I really think the next attack is going to be biological. That is the only way you could seriously fuckup an entire city and its virtually impossible to detect in time or stop. You can transport enough to create a major crisis in a briefcase.

A suitcase nuke would be another thing to worry about, but again the logistics to get it into the US aren't easy.

"A suitcase nuke would be another thing to worry about, but again the logistics to get it into the US aren't easy."

ever see the movie "the sum of all fears"

boom

I agree FTV, especially during Internext and AVN :Graucho

I'm with KRL here. Why does everybody think these guys are dumb enough to use a plane once again? It's harder to do, and it'll only effect the people in a given area.

I think it's New Years that we all have to worry about IMHO.

In a somewhat related thread (see link below), AWC brought up a worrisome point about Hoover Damn, just outside of Las Vegas.

Damn!

I bet nearby Nellis AFB is alerted and ready to launch appropriate aircraft to protect area stuff.

Dave
www.davecummings.com

http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showth...hreadid=213264

No worries here