{"id":365,"date":"2004-11-22T22:36:19","date_gmt":"2004-11-23T04:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=365"},"modified":"2004-11-22T22:36:33","modified_gmt":"2004-11-23T04:36:33","slug":"bomb-found-on-commercial-flight-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=365","title":{"rendered":"Bomb Found on Commercial Flight in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The terrorists were foiled in another attempt to take down one of their decades-long favorite targets, as a <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=540&#038;ncid=736&#038;e=9&#038;u=\/ap\/20041122\/ap_on_re_mi_ea\/iraq_airliner\">commercial airliner has again escaped their horror<\/a> in Iraq.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A homemade bomb was found Monday on a commercial flight inside Iraq, prompting additional screening measures to go into effect at Baghdad International Airport, the U.S. Embassy said.<\/p>\n<p>No further details were released and the statement did not say whether the affected flight had arrived or was preparing to depart.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;American citizens are encouraged to review their travel plans to determine whether travel on commercial carriers servicing Iraq is necessary at this time,&#8221; the embassy said.<\/p>\n<p>Commercial flights resumed to and from Baghdad on Nov. 15 after being suspended for a week under a state of emergency declared on the eve of the U.S.-led assault on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.<\/p>\n<p>Aircraft flying into and out of Baghdad have been fired on frequently by insurgents, and planes take a number of precautions to minimize attack.<\/p>\n<p>On June 27, insurgents fired on an Australian C-130 military transport after takeoff from Baghdad&#8217;s airport, killing an American passenger and forcing the aircraft to return. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To say that Iraq, especially Sunni Iraq, is still a dangerous place is quite the understatement.  I contend that it is just as erroneous to say the situation is hopeless.<\/p>\n<p>And what is it with radical Moslems and airplanes?  I know they crave the fiery spectacle like a crackwhore wants the rock, but they soon need to realize any hope they have for success (at least in the short- to mid-term) is to face the American forces and bite the bullet, literally and figuratively.  Civilian targets are not helping them with the Iraqi populace.<\/p>\n<p>Back to the planes thing &#8212; I&#8217;m just glad their were no Islamists around Kitty Hawk in 1903.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The terrorists were foiled in another attempt to take down one of their decades-long favorite targets, as a commercial airliner has again escaped their horror in Iraq. A homemade bomb was found Monday on a commercial flight inside Iraq, prompting additional screening measures to go into effect at Baghdad International Airport, the U.S. Embassy said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-middle-east","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}