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Flights From Paris to U.S. Cancelled
MSNBC | December 24, 2003

Posted on 12/24/2003 10:41:16 AM PST by cyncooper

MSNBC just announced that three flights from Paris to the U.S. have been suddenly cancelled due to "security concerns". The first flight was scheduled to depart Paris heading for Los Angeles.

I could not find an article yet.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: airfrance; erniealert; france; lax; nocheeseforyou; orangealert4; terrorism; threat; usembassy
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To: Thane_Banquo
More bright anti-France thoughts!
21 posted on 12/24/2003 10:47:56 AM PST by aquaculture
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To: InterceptPoint
I agree with you!
22 posted on 12/24/2003 10:47:59 AM PST by DaughterofEve (W)
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To: Thane_Banquo; All
It's really sad to see how much France has degenerated in just the last ten years - when I was in Normandy in 92, every little village had "Rue General Eisenhower" and/or "Rue General Patton". Everywhere I went, someone would buy me a glass of wine for being an American. The American Cemetery at St. James (IIRC) was so tidy as to make Arlington look shabby. They still remembered who had bailed them out two times running, and were still grateful. I'm afraid the last of that generation are the ones who died of heat stroke last summer, though.
23 posted on 12/24/2003 10:48:23 AM PST by nina0113
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To: smith288
"How can this happen? They banned headscarfs!"

LOL!

24 posted on 12/24/2003 10:48:25 AM PST by The G Man (Wesley Clark is just Howard Dean in combat boots)
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To: jerseygirl
Waiting for details, airline(s) time of departure/arrival, were the planes ready to go?
25 posted on 12/24/2003 10:48:26 AM PST by Semper Paratus
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To: el_chupacabra
And even more deep thoughts, by someone who certainly knows a lot about WWII!
26 posted on 12/24/2003 10:48:28 AM PST by aquaculture
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To: aquaculture
Richard Reid was on a flight out of Paris. Doesn't sound like they solved their security problems, does it?
27 posted on 12/24/2003 10:48:50 AM PST by mewzilla
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To: cyncooper
msnbc:

security concerns expressed by the French officials!

one of three was scheduled for LAX.
28 posted on 12/24/2003 10:48:56 AM PST by glock rocks (molon labe)
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To: aquaculture
ohhh. I guess you think the French are looking out for our interests?
29 posted on 12/24/2003 10:49:06 AM PST by jbstrick (War is not fought for peace. War is fought for victory.)
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To: Wait4Truth
No, the shoe-bomber was British. But let's say he was French!
30 posted on 12/24/2003 10:49:18 AM PST by aquaculture
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To: mewzilla
CNN: 3 flights to LA from Paris cancelled.
31 posted on 12/24/2003 10:49:22 AM PST by mewzilla
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To: cyncooper
Who did the cancellation and why should tell more.Could be the French were worried about Stingers here.
32 posted on 12/24/2003 10:49:25 AM PST by MEG33 (We Got Him!)
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To: cyncooper
Good .... let the frenchies stay home
33 posted on 12/24/2003 10:49:42 AM PST by Centurion2000 (Resolve to perform what you ought, perform without fail what you resolve.)
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To: aquaculture
Get a life and troll another thread
34 posted on 12/24/2003 10:50:16 AM PST by jbstrick (War is not fought for peace. War is fought for victory.)
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To: nina0113
I understand that the people in Normandy are still much more pro-America than the rest of the country.
35 posted on 12/24/2003 10:50:36 AM PST by Toskrin
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To: glock rocks
I wonder if the French concerns had anything to do with a request from the American Embassy...
36 posted on 12/24/2003 10:50:42 AM PST by mewzilla
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To: All
more likely the flights were empty due to cancellations due to mad cow outbreak....this disease is taken far more seriously on the continent...
37 posted on 12/24/2003 10:51:02 AM PST by Cage Rattler
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To: cyncooper
Hoping it's a false alarm

We many never know, considering a terrorist plan thrwarted just prior to execution results in... the status quo.

38 posted on 12/24/2003 10:51:04 AM PST by XHogPilot
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To: Wait4Truth
France..the home of the shoe-bomber, right?

Wrong. Richard Ried (spelling?) is a British citizen, no matter where the flight originated.

39 posted on 12/24/2003 10:51:08 AM PST by Yossarian
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To: aquaculture
Was waiting for the first knee-jerk anti-French comment! Deep thinkin', from people who poured good wine onto the sidewalk and called the land of Lafayette "the enemy".

Nothing knee-jerk about anti-French commentary. They're a good part of the reason that we had to go to Iraq in the first place.

And at least they didn't pour out good beer!

On the serious side, I do hope that they caught some of the culprits. I suspect that their motives had nothing to do with their admiration for the US though - they're simply covering their backside.

40 posted on 12/24/2003 10:51:12 AM PST by meyer
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