Archive for August 17th, 2006

Bomb Threat on Sydney flight

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

A Pacific Blue flight bound to Sydney received a threat and was escorted into Sydney airport, where it landed safely. However, the passengers on the plane were forced to wait while the plane was held away from the terminal and searched for an alleged bomb, or other device.
All passengers were released and, apparently, no [...]

Ceasefire unraveling?

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

The UN brokered ceasefire is becoming increasingly irrelevant, or perhaps it always was a joke. There is now to be NO understanding that the UN will disarm Hezbollah in Lebanon (or anywhere else).
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was quoted in an American newspaper Thursday as saying that the UN force expected to deploy [...]