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Residents and visitors of the state of Hawaii got a rare opportunity to consider their mortality and life choices after a nuclear false alarm rocked the state on Saturday. The alarm, officially the result of someone clicking the wrong option on a drop-down menu, terrified many. Tree Davis, military mother of four, recounted her experience. "The alert went off, and to say I felt sheer terror doesn’t even seem to adequately describe how I felt," Davis said. "For all I knew, a deadly missile was barreling toward us and we were all probably going to die. I had to get...

Early this morning,an Aer Lingus plane from NYC to Shannon, was isolated at Shannon because of a bomb threat.All passengers were evacuated and re-screened, and the aircraft was searched for bombs. It proved a false alarm-like yesterday's escorted return of a US flight to Amsterdam because of suspicious passenger activity. What is going on here ?

Hastert Reveals Three Other Planes Hit Distress /// Buttons Tuesday... Amid the aftermath of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) informed Members at a closed-door briefing Tuesday night that three commercial planes overseas had pressed their "terrorist button" and were still in the air as of 5:30 that evening. Although someone on the plane had pressed the device designed to indicate a hijacking, Hastert reported that there was no foul play involved on the planes and that intelligence officials were simply responding to "false alarms," ROLLCALLDAILY reports...