And the authorities were damn right to do what they did! Can you imagine if they'd ignored a threat and it turned out to have some basis? In fact, there are laws in the US about not to ignoring or not publicizing a threat. Back in the 80's the US Embassies received word of a possible terrorist attack on a US carrier. They notified some of their employees not to take American planes back to the States for Christmas. Pan Am 103 was blown out of the sky and some of the families sued because of withheld information. Richard Reid, the infamous "shoe bomber" certainly looked too stupid to carry out a threat but investigation revealed he could have done some significant damage to that American Airlines 767.
Mandi
And the authorities were damn right to do what they did! Can you imagine if they'd ignored a threat and it turned out to have some basis? In fact, there are laws in the US about not to ignoring or not publicizing a threat. Back in the 80's the US Embassies received word of a possible terrorist attack on a US carrier. They notified some of their employees not to take American planes back to the States for Christmas. Pan Am 103 was blown out of the sky and some of the families sued because of withheld information. Richard Reid, the infamous "shoe bomber" certainly looked too stupid to carry out a threat but investigation revealed he could have done some significant damage to that American Airlines 767.
Mandi