TERRORISM: Al-Qaeda exodus triggers panic

US sparked airport alert after terrorists left secret hideouts

THE sudden movement of large numbers of highly trained al-Qaeda terrorists across the Middle East triggered the panic over possible attacks on Western aircraft which led to the grounding of international flights to the United States last week.

(By Neil Mackay, Investigations Editor
04 January 2004)
The Sunday Herald has learned that the US raised its terror alert to Code Orange � the second highest level � on December 21 when Washington discovered that trained al-Qaeda terrorists had been leaving their strongholds and hideouts in the Hadhramouth area east of the Yemeni capital of Sanaa.

www.sundayherald.com...

[Edited on 3-1-2004 by SkepticOverlord]

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Wow! I really hope you are joking. But if not, there are some people here that are going to be in a whole lot of trouble.

In order to stay on topic;
posted on 3-1-2004 at 08:17 PM

US sparked airport alert after terrorists left secret hideouts

THE sudden movement of large numbers of highly trained al-Qaeda terrorists across the Middle East triggered the panic over possible attacks on Western aircraft which led to the grounding of international flights to the United States last week.

I wonder what that means, did they ever come back? Don't tell me they are aliens over there now lol