ISP Evacuated After Southwest Bomb Threat

[Matt Molnar]

Newsday:

MacArthur terminal evacuated after threat (http://www.newsday.com/news/local/suffolk/ny-limaca0726,0,1265934.story)

BY JOHN VALENTI | [email protected]
8:08 AM EDT, July 25, 2008

The boarding area at the Southwest terminal building at Long Island-MacArthur Airport was evacuated Friday morning after a bomb threat was received concerning a specific airplane, officials said.

A similar threat against Kennedy Airport was made to the Manhattan 911 call center at 4:30 a.m. but did not involve a specific flight, a Port Authority of New York & New Jersey official said. That threat was investigated and found to be unsubstantiated, Port Authority spokeswoman Jennifer Friedberg said.

The incident at MacArthur did involve what airport commissioner Teresa Rizzuto said was "a specific airplane."

Town of Islip spokeswoman Catherine Green said that airplane was a Southwest Boeing 737, Flight 2622 to Chicago's Midway Airport. That flight was scheduled to leave MacArthur at 7 a.m. from Gate A4, and 136 passengers were booked on it. [Full Article (http://www.newsday.com/news/local/suffolk/ny-limaca0726,0,1265934.story)]

[Matt Molnar]

She said her initial reaction was that it was eerily similar to that of Sept. 11, 2001.

Will people ever stop being idiots?

[T-Bird76]

Will people ever stop being idiots?

Sadly the anwser to that is....No.

[Lezam]

Will people ever stop being idiots?

Nope

[emshighway]

There was credible information given on particulars of the ISP threat. Non credible on the JFK threat.

[Art at ISP]

With these two events (ISP and JFK) along with a security breach in CLT, one has to wonder if evil doers are testing the system.........

I'd like to think that's not the case, but ....

[emshighway]

We are heading into the time when many believe an action will be tried. The "testing" of a new President's reaction is on many the minds of many in the know.

[T-Bird76]

We are heading into the time when many believe an action will be tried. The "testing" of a new President's reaction is on many the minds of many in the know.

Might also be the opposite, rather then testing a new President the psychology could be to show the current sitting President on his exit from office his actions failed to protect the country. I've often thought Al Qaeda might try to pull something like that. That would have a dramatic sociology effect on the nation's psychy which could easily spill over into an economic collapse of certain industry.

Why though the airlines again? The security is so tight and that fact that no passenger is going to sit back and let another 9/11 take place it seems like a target that is operationally harder to attack.

[moose135]

Might also be the opposite, rather then testing a new President the psychology could be to show the current sitting President on his exit from office his actions failed to protect the country.
And of course, the cynic might say these aren't real threats, but an attempt by certain members of the government to try to sway the election, the old "The bad guys are plotting something, don't vote for Obama, he won't keep you safe" ploy. Not that anyone in the government would ever do something like that, I'm sure it's been a coincidence that the threat level seems to get elevated right around election time.

[adam613]

We are heading into the time when many believe an action will be tried. The "testing" of a new President's reaction is on many the minds of many in the know.

Might also be the opposite, rather then testing a new President the psychology could be to show the current sitting President on his exit from office his actions failed to protect the country. I've often thought Al Qaeda might try to pull something like that. That would have a dramatic sociology effect on the nation's psychy which could easily spill over into an economic collapse of certain industry.

Why though the airlines again? The security is so tight and that fact that no passenger is going to sit back and let another 9/11 take place it seems like a target that is operationally harder to attack.

You answered your own question. Attacking the airlines, after we've done so much to "secure" them, is exactly what would do the most social damage to our country.