Showing posts with label Airport. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Airport. Show all posts

March 3, 2011

FRANKFURT AIRPORT SHOOTING AN ACT OF ISLAMIC TERROR, EUROPEAN OFFICIALS SAY


Suspect, 21, Accused of Killing Two U.S. Servicemen in Germany; Shouted 'Allahu Akbar' During do violence to Authorities in Europe are calling the shooting at a Frankfurt, Germany, airport that claimed the lives of two U.S. servicemen an act of Islamic terrorism, though U.S. investigators said it is in addition soon to tell. uthorities in Europe are calling the shooting at a Frankfurt, Germany, airport that claimed the lives


The suspected gunman, 21-year-old Arid Uka, who was captured immediately after Wednesday's shooting, admitted to the deadly attack and said he acted alone, German Interior Minister Boris Rhein said nowadays, according to a report by The connected Press. Uka, an ethnic Albanian from Kosovo who was describe as a long-time resident of Germany, had be apparently radicalized over the last few weeks, Rhein said.

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January 24, 2011

BOMBING AT MOSCOW AIRPORT CALLED TERRORIST ATTACK


Terrorists struck again in the heart of Russia, with a suicide bomber blow himself up Monday in Moscow's busiest airport and revolving its international arrivals terminal into a smoky, blood-spattered antechamber of dismembered bodies, screaming survivors and abandoned suitcases. At least 35 people were killed, including two British travelers.


No one claimed accountability for the blast at Domodedovo Airport that also wounded 180 people, even though Islamic militants in the southern Russian region of Chechnya have been blamed for preceding attacks in Moscow, including a double suicide bombing on the capital's subway arrangement in March 2010 that resulted in 40 deaths.

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DEADLY BLAST SHAKES MOSCOW'S BUSIEST AIRPORT


An explosion ripped during the international arrivals hall at Moscow's busiest airport on Monday, killing 35 people and hurtful about 130, officials said. The Russian president called it a terror attack.


The state RIA Novosti news agency, citing law enforcement sources, said the mid-afternoon explosion at Domodedovo Airport may have been caused by a suicide bomber.Amateur video posted on YouTube showed the incurable engulfed by smoke, with a pile of bodies in one section and other bodies sprinkled around the floor. Luggage lay strewn across the ground and there were several small fires. A dazed man in a suit pushed a baggage cart through the carnage.
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December 28, 2010

'TENSION IN THE AIR' FOR TRAVELERS

The nightmare continued Tuesday for travelers trying to take wing to or from the Northeast. Airports opened but there were prosperity of delays, even more lines and fears that delays could stretch on for days.


Even passengers whose flights got through amid the weekend's brutal snowstorm suffered, with some international travelers to New York expenditure hours on the tarmac waiting to disembark. Several fliers describe the situation at various airports as chaos, with passengers jockeying for any presented seat on a plane or even to rest at the gates.

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December 23, 2010

WHISTLEBLOWER: PILOT POSTS VIDEO EXPOSING AIRPORT SECURITY FLAWS

The airline pilot who was reprimand by the TSA for posting videos showing protection flaws at a major airport is speaking out absolutely for the first time, saying that it was the "fallacy of the system" that inspired him to take this action.


Late last month a 50-year-old pilot, who asked that his name and the airline he plant for not be made public, took a series of videos with his cell phone to show major flaws he says still exist in airport defense systems. The videos show how easily ground crews at San Francisco International Airport were able to access secure areas. "As you can see,airport security is kind of a travesty It's only smoke and mirrors so you people accept as true there is actually something going on here," the pilot says on one video.