GA Strategy Proves … Something…
The news media took a lashing from GA last week, in a turnabout that ended with two NBC-TV reporters under arrest and GA advocacy groups in an uproar. The two reporters, “Middle-Eastern-looking” men working undercover, went to St. Louis Downtown Airport on Wednesday and asked about chartering a helicopter. (Recall last week’s warning that helicopters may be the next object of terrorists’ desires.) They were trying to find out whether anybody was paying any attention to the “Security Alert” that warned of terrorist interest in helicopters. The reporters showed driver’s licenses from two different states as their I.D., and tried to pay with cash. The FBO staff stalled the pair and called police. Officers arrested the two men after a search of their bags turned up knives, various weapons … and box cutters. NBC News that night broadcast a brief note about the incident, but nothing could be found about it on its Web site, and the episode got very little play in the mainstream press.
