Fla. National Guard May Return to Airports (Because of Elections)

[Khephra]

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Florida National Guard troops who patrolled airports after the 2001 terrorist attacks may return to the terminals soon amid concerns that terrorists might try to disrupt the Nov. 2 election.

Florida Guard officials are drafting plans to dispatch "at least a couple of hundred" troops to airports across the state, spokesman Lt. Col. Ron Tittle said Thursday. Officials said there was no specific threat to Florida.

It was unknown whether other states also were planning to activate Guard troops for airport details. A Pentagon spokesman said he was unfamiliar with the plan.

Tittle said the planning was prompted by a "warning order" received earlier this week from U.S. Northern Command in Colorado, which is responsible for the military's homeland-defense operations.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-brf-airport-guard,0,4642095.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines

[SoCalDem]

1. I wish they were there to stop the repube private planes from landing

begone! james baker..:)

[truthisfreedom]

3. now, now... what would be better is if they were there to keep the

repube planes on the ground.

[Florida_Geek]

2. More like Jeb called and told them the Terrorrrrrist are Coming

:grrr:

[teryang]

4. Will they be manning the hundreds of private fields

...where just about anybody can come and go as they please?

I doubt it. This is where the real security risk is. These are the airfields where CIA gun runners, drug dealers and their terrorist trainees have operated freely for decades, usually with the tacit endorsement of the bush crime family.

[Gin]

5. a guy I work with told us he may be doing duty in an airport soon..(NG)

so this is true. I thought he was making it up.

[wildeyed]

6. Maybe they just want them close by to contain the rioters

after the pukes steal the election again.