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F-16s Intercept Air Canada Flight in New Terror Scare
Josey1
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F-16s Intercept Air Canada Flight in New Terror ScareJust hours after President Bush delegated the authority on Thursday to order a shoot-down of commercial airliners that may pose a kamikaze threat to U.S. ground targets, two USAF F-16s intercepted an Air Canada flight bound from Los Angeles to Toronto after a passenger made anti-American threats.Air Canada Flight 792 was stormed on the tarmac by a flak-jacket-wearing SWAT team upon its return to LAX. The threatening passenger and his girlfriend were removed from the plane and taken into custody, ABC News reported late Thursday.All 138 passengers were reported safe.The FBI identified the passenger as Javid Naghani, an Iranian citizen in the United States legally, according to the Associated Press. "Shortly after departure a male passenger was apprehended smoking in the lavatory," Nicole Couture-Simard, spokeswoman for Air Canada in Montreal, told the AP. "The passenger became verbally abusive and uttered an anti-American threat," she said. Officals would not describe the nature of the threatening remark.The incident reportedly prompted the Air Canada pilot to reverse course and return to LAX, prompting U.S. military jets to scramble and escort the plane to the ground. http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2001/9/27/223357