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07/23/2004: "Work Week Wrap Up"

9/11 Commission Report

No, I haven’t read it yet; work keeps interfering with my leisure activities. I have skimmed the Executive Summary but will read the full report this weekend so I am reserving comment until I have read it. It’s available for download from Fox News, if you are wondering what to do this weekend.

Aladdin about to change hands and stance.

Ronstadt follow up. I heard yesterday that the Aladdin is about to undergo new management and that the new management is anxious to get Ms. Ronstadt back singing. Oh well, no need to go to Vegas and show support for the Aladdin now.

Airline Security

I heard last night on Joe Scarborough that the 19 Syrian musicians who were interviewed and released were all traveling on expired visas. The intelligence agencies that met the plane and conducted the interviews took copies of the visas but failed to notice they had expired. This is not good.

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I still find the whole thing suspicious. These guys may be legit, but what is the explanation for all their odd behavior? Could someone have arranged for this legit group to test security?

John Moore said @ 07/23/2004 10:05 PM MST

I'm afraid that testing security is exactly what they were up to and the testing was not for our benefit.

I find it hard to believe that on final approach to LA, they were in line for the bathrooms and no one in the flight crew told them to sit down and fasten their seat belts. They would have ordered me or you to sit down.

I would hope that the crews are hearing these stories and thinking about what they would do in the same situation. I keep seeing respresentatives of their groups on shows talking about their lack of training as an excuse. How much extra training does it take, to enforce FAA regulations and tell them to sit down?

Did the pilot think about running into some turbulance and putting on the fasten seat belt sign in flight to test them? How about a mechanical failure and an unscheduled landing at the nearest airport if need be?

Knowing that dry runs have been made for in flight bomb making lets me know as a passenger that if I see this type of activity going on, I may be able to thwart it by locking myself in the bathroom and not giving them access to the assembly line.

I guess the bottom line is that you cam no longer sleep on airplanes, something I used to do all the time.

Leslie said @ 07/24/2004 03:01 AM MST