This post was sent to me by Mr. Paul Griffo and is reprinted with permission. It was altered slightly for grammar and continuity.
In light of the following article, shouldn't we again renew our concerns about security at Teterboro? Shouldn't we be calling for the closing of this real and present threat to Bergen County?
It's time to step up the calls, e-mails and letters to the newspaper editors. Security at Teterboro is a joke and Bergen County is a target rich area for any terrorist at any time. Who wants to be in the football stadium when Al Qaeda drops a Gulfstream V onto the 50 yard line during a game? Or in Hackensack Hospital, or the offices of the Bergen Record? You don't have to hijack a plane out of the airport, you just have to fly one into it! (or into a target seconds from the airport, like the stadium, Hackensack Hospital, GW Bridge, Empire State Building, etc.
Government Report on U.S. Aviation Warns of Security HolesBy ERIC LICHTBLAU
Published: March 14, 2005
WASHINGTON, March 13 - Despite a huge investment in security, the American aviation system remains vulnerable to attack by Al Qaeda and other jihadist terrorist groups, with noncommercial planes and helicopters offering terrorists particularly tempting targets, a confidential government report concludes.
Intelligence indicates that Al Qaeda may have discussed plans to hijack chartered planes, helicopters and other general aviation aircraft for attacks because they are less well-guarded than commercial airliners, according to a previously undisclosed 24-page special assessment on aviation security by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security two weeks ago.
But commercial airliners are also "likely to remain a target and a platform for terrorists," the report says, and members of Al Qaeda appear determined to study and test new American security measures to "uncover weaknesses."
The assessment comes as the Bush administration, with a new intelligence structure and many new counterterrorism leaders in place, is taking stock of terrorists' capabilities and of the country's ability to defend itself.
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