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SABOTAGE & ATTACKS
1 FEBRUARY: TEL AVIV
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arrivals hall at Ben Gurion Airport and
was arrested by security personnel.
when they might fly, threatened to besiege 10 MARCH: AJACCIO, CORSICA
airline offices and take their protest to the Robert Feliciaggi, a Corsican politician and
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25 FEBRUARY: NEPALGUNJ, NEPAL
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park. He was attacked as he was loading his
27 FEBRUARY: CALIFORNIA luggage into his car boot after arriving on a
Long Beach Airport was briefly closed after flight from
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checkpoint near Nepalgunj Airport.
After an hour-long gun battle, one
ied in hospital a few person was left dead.
a man ran away from a security screening hours later.
checkpoint when screeners noticed his baggy 28 FEBRUARY: AMBON
clothing and decided to conduct a more Reports emerge that two bombs were
intensive search. He was later arrested. found at Pattimura airport.
1 MARCH: BAHRAIN 7 MARCH: GOTEBORG, SWEDEN
A driver crashed through the main entrance Three men in a jeep crashed through
of Bahrain International Airport, temporarily a gate at Landvetter Airport and drove
shutting down its main hall. up to a Scandinavian Airlines plane
that had just arrived from London.
With passengers still on board, the
men stole an unknown number of
10 MARCH: NEW YORK bags and crates with foreign currency
Delta Air Lines’ domestic terminal at LaGuardia being unloaded from the cargo hold.
Airport was evacuated for about two hours They then left a bag behind, with an
when a man, whose shoes had indicated antenna sticking out of it, causing the
the possible presence of explosives, had evacuation of much of
walked away from the checkpoint apparently the airport. The robbers
unaware that his shoes had set off an alarm. escaped, spreading nails
The man was never found, but, allegedly, the on the road as they did
resultant tests indicated that the substance so to prevent a police
2 MARCH: LAS VEGAS was more likely to be a fertiliser. pursuit.
Paula Abdul and a companion bypassed the
mandatory screening process before 13 MARCH: MADRID 14 MARCH: TUMACO, COLOMBIA
boarding a flight to Burbank, California. Staff at Barajas airport discovered the dead A possible rocket attack on San Luis
Some reports indicate that an employee was body of a 51-year old Italian man, named as Airport, near the border with Ecuador,
trying to help the Giro Pino, in one of the airport lounges. He may have been prevented when military
star (a judge in had a stab wound in his neck. personnel found three rocket launchers
American Idol) and seven rockets filled with explosives
avoid fans. All 29 MARCH: LA PAZ, BOLIVIA a few yards away from where aircraft
passengers were Employees of Lloyd Aereo Boliviano, which used to eradicate illegal narcotics
screened upon is on the verge of bankruptcy, demanded crops were parked.
their arrival in the company’s nationalisation and ended
Burbank. up clashing with police at various Bolivian 24 MARCH: COLORADO
airports. Three explosive devices detonated
8 MARCH: FRENCH POLYNESIA and two were disarmed at the homes
Hiro Tefaarere, the Temaru government’s 30 MARCH: LA PAZ, BOLIVIA of a Federal Aviation Administration
minister of small and medium-sized Hundreds of striking airline workers blocked employee and workers of the Serco
businesses, announced that he had runways and disrupted flights. Group, which operates 56 air traffic
turned in his international airport security control towers.
pass in support of Sea Minister Keitapu
Maamaatuaiahutapu. The French High 25 MARCH: JOAHNNESBURG
Commissioner’s Office had, on 9 February, Armed gunmen, with AK-47 assault
placed the Tahiti-Faa’a International Airport’s rifles, approached a South African
customs area off-limits to the Sea Minister Airways aircraft after it landed from
and his Chief-of-Staff. The refusal to renew London and escaped with currency
the security pass for both men stemmed from (alleged to be $16.5 million) contained
their participation at a Basque separatist in the cargo hold.
party meeting in Spain in late January.
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