What's wrong with just pulling suspects off the plane?
I can understand the cancellation of BA flights to/from Saudi Arabia, since there seem to be external threats, like someone planning to attack the airplane from the outside.
But the Air France cancellations were purely due to certain names on the passenger list matching names of suspected terrorists.
Now-if, let's say, 6 names match - then what's wrong with pulling off these 6 people, together with any checked luggage of theirs?
And let the others go.
The same with the BA pax who were held at Washington Dulles the other day for 3 hours, after arrival.
One does not need to hold up 300 pax, because there are 2 or 3 specific suspects.
Unless the real goal is to create even more hysteria on Fox News.
2 or 6 pax taken off a flight warrants no report, several flights cancelled warrants at least 15 minutes every half hour.
The medias' re-election campaign for president Bush is in full swing.