Authorities Investigating Cargo Flights in NJ, Pa. - ABC News

New update: USA Fighter jets escorting a commercial jet from Canada to New York's LaGuardia airport.  Maybe unrelated: the Jewish Federation in Chicago is on heightened alert for suspicious packages. Some of the packages from Yemen are reported to be addressed to Chicago Synagogues.

New update: some packages contained explosive material according to Obama's teleprompter.

Suspected bombs on cargo planes and trucks.
Authorities Investigating Cargo Flights in NJ, Pa. - ABC News:

"Philadelphia International Airport spokeswoman Victoria Lupica says Philadelphia police and other agencies are with a plane at a remote part of that airport. Video from the airport shows emergency vehicles around a UPS jet.

A spokeswoman for United Parcel Service Inc. did not immediately know what prompted authorities to search the flight at Philadelphia. The company says it is working closely with authorities."

Radio reports added that there were other bombs were unloaded onto UPS and distributed by trucks.  There was something about a possible bomb investigation in a New York bank.  Suspect devices were also found in London. They originated in Yemen.  Yemen is the new home of New Mexico born imam Anwar al-Awlaki, career advisor to Army Major Malik Nadal Hasan.

Update: false alarm, or as my FaceBook Friend Bob Jackson says, "test runs."

This reminds me of the pre-election bombings in Spain just six years ago.  I will admit, I thought some of my friends were grasping at straws connecting radical Islamic magazines to the recent shootings and other dangerous events.  Now, I am paying a lot more attention.






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Poor, Downtrodden Terrorist News

Amy Alkon has some great comments and her readers offer some too.

From her linked article in the Independent: Abdulmutallab, 23, had lived a gilded life, and, for the three years he studied in London, he stayed in a £2m flat.


Jesse Walker has this at Reason: 

Security Theater: A New Show Opens In Detroit

With the Bruce Schneier money quote: Only two things have made flying safer [since 9/11]: the reinforcement of cockpit doors, and the fact that passengers know now to resist hijackers.

Also at Reason, Tim Cavanaugh with:

Open Thread: TSA To Keep Us Safe From Nigerian Terrorists, Bankers' Sons, 419 Scammers

Since everybody seems to want to talk about the latest inTransportation Safety Administration foolproofitude, here's your chance.

Possible topics:

Liquids banned. Solids banned. Will gases be banned next?

If you're not allowed to keep anything on your lap, do barf bags and in-flight magazines become attractive nuisances?

Other reports mention that Abdulmutallab hid his PETN explosives in his underwear.

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New York Terrorist Raid NOT in Buffalo!

Flushing, Queens, New York? They are branching out.

Residents in Queens were witness to an FBI raid Monday morning, as agents
flooded the area looking for explosives. Neighbors stood by as a large group of
FBI agents and NYPD detectives converged on an apartment building as point of a
joint terrorist task force.

The NYPD says one of the residences is located on 147th Street between
Parsons and 41st Avenue in Flushing, Queens.