India says Mumbai attacks controlled from Pakistan
Source: Reuters
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
NEW DELHI, Dec 3 (Reuters) – Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday said that the deadly attacks on Mumbai were led from inside Pakistan, and said India would act decisively to protect its territorial integrity.
“I informed Dr. Rice there is no doubt that the attacks in Mumbai were perpetrated by individuals who came from Pakistan and whose controllers are in Pakistan,” he said at a joint press conference after meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. (Reporting by Sue Pleming, Editing by Bryson Hull)
TACA passengers in a fog after 9-hour flight diversion
Source: LA Times
December 2, 2008
by: James Wagner
Flight from San Salvador to L.A. should’ve taken 41/2hours but winds up being more like 14 after an unplanned overnight in Ontario.On Sunday, however, a TACA International Airlines flight took nearly 14 hours, with nine of them spent on the ground as passengers clamored for relief.
Just why the passengers were forced to wait for so long on the cramped aircraft remained a matter of dispute Monday.
According to the air carrier, authorities at the Ontario airport did not allow the plane’s 193 passengers to disembark. Local authorities, according to the TACA statement, did not want passengers to pass through customs and enter the country.
According to a statement from Los Angeles World Airports, which operates the Ontario facility, TACA never asked that passengers be allowed to exit the aircraft.
The airline planned to take off from the airport soon after it refueled, according to the airport agency. But as the plane waited for fog to clear at LAX, the airline did not request that U.S. Customs and Border Protection process passengers so they could stretch their legs or sit in the terminal.
Although the airport did not have customs staff on hand to process exiting passengers, it could have summoned them, according to the airport agency.
“It is also unknown why, even after suggested, TACA staff did not request clearance to have their passengers deplane for humanitarian reasons,” the agency said in a prepared statement.
Water and snacks were provided to passengers about 4 a.m. by airport staff, and emergency responders received “a few reports” of passenger illnesses, airport officials said. No one was hospitalized.
The TACA flight’s crew was changed about 7 a.m. because it had run longer than its allotted hours, Ontario airport spokeswoman Maria Tesoro-Fermin said.
After a normal servicing Monday morning, Flight 670 finally departed Ontario just before 9 a.m. and landed safely at LAX nearly 30 minutes later.
The TACA plane was one of three international passenger flights diverted to Ontario on Monday, said Nancy Castles, a spokeswoman for LAX.
Wagner is a Times staff writer.
Organic Food Offers Little More Than Peace of Mind, Critics Say
Source: FoxNews
Saturday, October 04, 2008
Jami Nelson always tried to eat healthy and take good care of her body, so she was stunned to learn she had breast cancer at the age of 25. Read more