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Rough Landings Ahead After the European Commission's ruling last week that discounts granted to Irish budget airline Ryanair by Belgium's publicly owned Charleroi airport constituted illegal state aid, CEO Michael O'Leary cried: "We consider this...
...This is not a time of happiness; this is a time of relief and composure." ARIEL SHARON, Israeli Prime Minister, at an airport ceremony to receive the bodies of three Israeli soldiers in an exchange with the Lebanese guerrilla group Hizballah for the release of 429 prisoners...
...terrorist enterprise," detained without charge for up to six days - and, once charged, jailed for three years before trial. One French case now approaching the three-year mark is that of Djamel Beghal, a veteran of al-Qaeda's Afghan camps. After being arrested in the Dubai airport, Beghal confessed he was en route to France to run a network of al-Qaeda cells in Europe, one of which was supposed to mount a suicide bombing against the U.S. Embassy in Paris. He later recanted, but his information led investigators to the arrest of suspects preparing the attacks...
...White House, through the skillful planning of political mastermind Karl Rove, has also learned to exploit the news media’s reliance on dramatic spectacle for its own special interests. Bush’s covert Thanksgiving Day stopover at the Baghdad airport for two and a half hours was a particularly fitting example. Encircled by soldiers, the president smiled widely for the cameras, carrying a huge platter with a giant golden-brown turkey, lavish trimmings and bunches of grapes. The image was plastered on practically every online site, television broadcast and newspaper front page, helping to amplify optimism about...
...surprised if you're asked to whip out your cell phone and make a call next time you go through airport security. A mobile phone that masquerades as a gun may sound like a device concocted for 007, but it's the latest hidden weaponry to show up on the radar of law-enforcement folks...