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(IsraelNN.com) El Al flight 105 to (Toronto - Los Angeles) has been diverted from Toronto to Montreal by the control tower due to a “security alert” according to the El Al spokesman. There are no details. The plane landed in Montreal without incident and is now refueling to continue. The 767 jumbo was carrying 180 passengers when ordered to divert. El Al is making arrangements for the 44 Toronto passengers to reach their destination. In addition, 45 passengers in Toronto will be brought to the plane to continue with the flight.

THAILAND'S attempts to reassure world leaders the country will be safe from terror attacks during this month's APEC meeting have been dashed by reports that police have spent weeks looking for six contraband shoulder-fired missiles. Deputy Prime Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh said intelligence officials had been "hunting them" for some time. The missiles were reported to have been smuggled into Thailand from Cambodia, where weapons trafficking is booming, about the time regional Jemaah Islamiah leader Hambali was arrested in Ayutthaya, north of Bangkok, in August. "Concerning the SAM (missiles), we have discussed it almost every week in meetings of intelligence agencies...

This just breaking on Channel Two, Israel. Authorities in Thailand have foiled an Al Qaeda plot to blow up an El Al ISrael Airlines in the Capital, Bangkok.

NEWARK -- A bail hearing for a man facing terrorism charges in an alleged missile-smuggling plot was postponed yesterday so that prosecutors could present a witness to bolster accusations that the defense claimed were vague. Meanwhile, defendant Hemant Lakhani will remain held without bail. The hearing was set to resume next Thursday. U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie said yesterday that Lakhani confessed after his arrest and is heard on more than 150 covertly recorded conversations and seen in some videotapes, at one point actually handling a missile he believed was sought by a terrorist group to shoot down a U.S....

TERRORISM experts believe it is only a matter of time until there's another attempt to destroy a commercial jet using shoulder-fired missiles, and warn that little can be done to defend airports. And they are not discounting the possibility of multiple strikes on different continents in an attempt to cripple an already wounded aviation industry. "I think it's been a low-hanging fruit for some time," said John Pike, a former defence analyst with the Federation of American Scientists and now director of US-based GlobalSecurity.org. "You do it on multiple airports on multiple continents and people won't fly." Security forces have...

Exclusive Military Sources reveal anti air missile was fired Wednesday night at United State military plane over Baghdad International Airport. Attack launched when Rumsfeld was en route to Iraq. Plane was bound to land at this airport.Rumsfeld arrives Thursday in Baghdad. On unannounced trip to Iraq, Gulf and Afghanistan, he calls for 10,000 more troops for Iraq to be provided by other nations other than the United States and Iraiqs themselves of whom 50,000 are already in place.Secretary of State Powell begins drafting United Nations Security Council motion to mandate international force for Iraq under United States Command.

Qantas is resisting pressure to install new systems to defend its fleet against terrorist missile attacks, throwing the responsibility for protecting its aircraft back onto government. The airline's CEO, Geoff Dixon, rejected suggestions that it deploy expensive decoy systems against surface-to-air missiles, saying these would would cost nearly $700 million to protect the international fleet alone. Mr Dixon also questioned the effectiveness of the systems and said the best way to deal with the missile threat would be for governments in Australia and the region to identify potential launch sites near airports. His comments came after the Prime Minister, John...

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<p>The Department of Homeland Security is evaluating about a dozen overseas airports to determine their vulnerability to attacks with shoulder-fired missiles.</p> <p>"There is no intelligence that there are al Qaeda cells actively planning or in the execution phase to carry out some sort of attack" in the United States or overseas, a department official said Thursday, adding that the Kenyan incident was "a wake-up call."</p>

Testimony last Thursday at a closed-door hearing before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has revealed the growing worry of the threat that commercial planes face to shoulder fired surface to air missiles. According to Gary Burns, a spokesperson for the Committee’s Chairman John Mica (R-FL), the Bush Administration has become increasingly concerned about the threat civilian airliners face from the missiles that are in the hands of terrorists across the world, including al Qaeda. Last November, the Bush Administration convened a working group made up of intelligence, law enforcement and other experts, as well as members of the National...

Think the Unthinkable By Ralph Kinney Bennett 08/14/2003 The impossible can only be overborne by the unprecedented. -- Sir Ian Hamilton, Gallipoli Diary, 1920 The thing was done in a minute. It was September dusk and traffic was relatively light on the Grand Central Parkway as the black Honda Accord pulled over to the berm beside Planeview Park, at the end of LaGuardia Airport. As usual, a jetliner was in its final seconds before touching down on the runway. The whine of its engines could be heard above the rush of passing trucks and taxis. The sunroof on the Honda...

Terrorists trying to take down airliners with portable missiles has been a threat for a long time. Actually, over the last thirty years, it's been a reality. Some 29 commercial aircraft have been shot down by such missiles. However, the downed aircraft have been small, and most of these tragedies have taken place in Africa. The wars in Africa are the worst on the planet, so violent that most journalists avoid them. For three decades, this has kept the use of portable missiles against civilian aircraft off the front page. Larger airliners, like the Airbus's, and 757s, 767s and 747s,...

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