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...numbers. During the first four months of 2007, 27.6% of flights on U.S. carriers were delayed by more than 15 minutes or canceled. That news only confirmed what people already knew after the industry suffered terrible publicity on Valentine's Day, when nine JetBlue planes were stranded on a JFK airport tarmac for up to 10 hours due to an ice storm. Less than two months earlier, on Dec. 29, 67 American Airlines planes across the nation had sat on tarmac for more than three hours because of storms in Texas. Passengers inside those planes would later describe the experience...
...another week or so no one is going to remember the "JFK plot." It never got off the ground. The plotters had neither explosives nor financing to fulfill their plan to blow up fuel tanks and a fuel pipeline at the New York City airport. The plot was betrayed almost from the beginning. It will sink without a ripple - unless, that is, there proves to be an Iranian connection...
...American press and have convinced themselves that while Condoleezza Rice might settle for diplomacy, Dick Cheney sooner or later will find an excuse to bomb them. The hard-liners are also convinced that we are inciting Iran's ethnic minorities to attack the regime. Trying to blow up JFK Airport is the least we could expect from them if Cheney does...
...Evidence of Iranian sleeper cells in the U.S. is as thin as that of an Iranian hand in the JFK plot. In the mid-'80s there was a suspicion that Lebanese Hizballah, on Iranian orders, was trying to establish cells in the U.S., particularly in the Detroit area. But no cell was found. Some terrorist analysts still believe that Iran tried to kill William Rogers, the commander of the U.S.S. Vincennes, when a pipe bomb went off under his minivan in 1989. The Vincennes shot down an Iranian civilian airliner over the Gulf in 1988, and the attack on Rogers...
...Administration official told me he doesn't see us coming up with a smoking gun on Iran's role in Iraq. (He had nothing to say about JFK.) What worries him instead is an accidental confrontation, like a hothead in the IRGC firing a missile at one of our carriers in the Gulf. If that were to happen, a war could follow, and we'd find out soon enough if the Iranians really do have sleeper cells...