[AGL] false alarm or maybe the real thing

[Jon Ford]

MIke-- we're going to India as tourists, and to see a guy (father of one of 
my wife's students) who runs a company teaching Indian businesses how to 
prosper be being more client-friendly. He's found us a place to stay at the 
Internatioal Culture center in Delhi. We're also going up to the Himalayan 
foothills close to where the Dahli Lama lives, staying for a few days in the 
old British summer capital, Shimla. We are a little concerned about 
terrorism in public places such as markets and at large festivals. The 
Northwestern flight cancellation seems a probable over-reaction; if there 
were real terrorists aboard, why would they draw so much attention to 
themselves by passing around cellphones and changing seats-- probably an 
extended family or a group of Indian businesspersons.I suspect the flights 
over and back will be the worst parts of the trip for us, as is often the 
case.

Jon

----Original Message Follows----
From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <michaele at ando.pair.com>
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Subject: Re: [AGL] false alarm or maybe the real thing
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 04:06:09 -0500

Not much additional info on the Northwestern flight.
One of the passengers said that a dozen passengers
were passing cellphones around and changing their seats.

Dutch cops are interviewing them.

Jon, tell us please why you are going to Delhi. As
a tourist? Do the Indians have you fill out a card
with a space for "motive of the trip" like when
one goes to France?

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Ford" <jonmfordster at hotmail.com>
To: <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 5:39 PM
Subject: RE: [AGL] false alarm or maybe the real thing


 > <The Dutch Defence Ministry said earlier the pilot decided to turn back
 > <after the crew said several of the 149 passengers on flight 42 to Mumbai
 > were
 > <behaving suspiciously.
 >
 >
 > Mike--they could have been drunk or maybe too much ganja-- "suspiciously"
 > could mean almost anything these days. I'm headed for Delhi on September
 > 3,
 > going through London on Virgin Airlines, and I refuse to be paranoid--the
 > world is a beautiful place!
 >
 > Jon
 > PS. bullet proof vests can be purchased in Mountain View Surplus for only
 > $199. No I.D. needed!
 >
 > ----Original Message Follows----
 > From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <michaele at ando.pair.com>
 > Reply-To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the
 > 60s<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
 > To: <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
 > Subject: [AGL] false alarm or maybe the real thing
 > Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 12:06:49 -0500
 >
 > this item belongs in the category of newsbreaks that make the heart race
 > faster -
 >
 > AMSTERDAM, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Dutch police arrested 12 passengers on a
 > U.S.
 > Northwest Airlines plane bound for India which was forced to turn back to
 > Amsterdam's Schiphol airport on Wednesday, news agency ANP reported.
 > ANP quoted a police spokesman as saying 12 were arrested, but declined to
 > give further details due to the ongoing investigation.
 >
 > Police officials were not immediately available to comment.
 >
 > The Dutch Defence Ministry said earlier the pilot decided to turn back
 > after
 > the crew said several of the 149 passengers on flight 42 to Mumbai were
 > behaving suspiciously.
 >
 >
 >
 > Security has been increased at airports worldwide in the last two weeks
 > after British police said they had foiled a plot by British Muslims to
 > blow
 > up planes in the mid-Atlantic using liquid explosives disguised as 
drinks.
 >
 >
 >