Machine-guns found on airliner (WorldNetDaily)

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | 11/23/2003 | Joseph Farah

[PeteFromMontana]

New York-bound Czech flight forced to land in Iceland Posted: November 23, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern

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When a New York-bound Czech Airlines flight was diverted to land in Iceland after a bomb threat was e-mailed to the U.S. Embassy in Prague, no bomb was found – but, according to Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, two tons of machine-guns were discovered in the baggage hold.

The plane, which carried 174 passengers and crew, made an unscheduled landing Tuesday in Iceland, after the airline received a warning that a bomb was on board.

The threat was delivered in an e-mail to the U.S. Embassy in Prague, which passed it on to the airline in the late afternoon. The plane had just passed Iceland when it received the threat and had to turn around to land at a U.S. military airfield.

U.S. military authorities coordinated the evacuation of the plane.

''Who knows what terrorist group those were heading to in the States and what carnage we prevented from occurring in the U.S. by intercepting the delivery,'' said one U.S. military source

The threat of a bomb on the civilian airliner was heightened because of the fact that President Bush's Air Force One was flying through the same airspace over Iceland at the same time in the opposite direction on his way to England.

The 174 passengers on the Czech flight continued on to New York the next day.

[supercat]

If I were taking the risk (rather stupid actually, since customs x-rays everything) to smuggle guns into the US, they would sure as hell be machine guns. I wouldn't take the risk to send .22 sporters or Kerry's shotgun.

No, but small handguns might be more of a value proposition. Which is more valuable--two tons of M16's or two tons of Keltec P-32's?

[PeteFromMontana]

Some California lawyer type lady called me about 10 years ago, in the conversation the topic of sexual harrassment came up, my response to her was that we handled things differently in Montana, if someone would sexually or any other way harrass us we just take out to the closet cliff, shoot em.... they become wolf food, problem solved.

[Crowcreek]

Yes, life's too short to worry about people who don't know how to behave.

Closer to the topic, I have surprised people by carting over two tons in the back of an old '64 Chev 3/4 ton pickup. Not machine guns 'tho -- just rock.

[dighton]

[Thinkin' Gal]

Thanks for the ping. Why would a bomb threat be put out on a plane with contraband, forcing a search? Clueless jihad stupidity, or is this stuff on every flight anyway. Okay, maybe the bomb threat was placed by a mole in order to get the plane searched ahead of its destination.

I wonder if any hapless innocent Muslim passengers met up with friends while on "detour" to Iceland.

Questions questions.