A United Airlines plane en route to Brussels with more than 200 passengers returned to O'Hare International Airport Friday because of a "suspected security concern," according to the airline.
"United flight 972 from Chicago to Brussels returned Friday to Chicago due to a suspected security concern," the airline said in a statement.
United Flight 972 was scheduled to depart from O'Hare around 6p.m Friday and arrive in Brussels around 9 a.m.. The flight landed in Chicago at 10:07 pm, where it was met by law enforcement, the airline said. There were 228 passengers onboard, according to the airline.
"We are accommodating passengers on an alternate flight to Brussels," the airline said.
FBI spokeswoman Joan Hyde said her agency responded to the diverted flight, but no arrests were made.
So it wasn't a tea party activist...
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The headline makes it read as if the stork murdered a spy...
[BREITBART] A stork once detained by Egyptian authorities on suspicion of being a winged spy has been found dead. "Zey call heem...Ze Schtork"!
Mahmoud Hassib, the head of Egypt's southern protected areas, said Saturday that local residents found the dead bird on an island in the Nile, south of the ancient city of Aswan. Dead storks tell no secrets. Then again, neither do live ones...
In August, a local resident found the stork in Egypt's Qena governorate, some 450 kilometers (280 miles) southeast of Cairo. Both he and police were suspicious of the European wildlife tracker found on it. Authorities later let the bird go. "Okay.You can go."
"QUACK!"
"Hey, wait a minute..."
However, controversy trails the bird into death. An Egyptian wildlife organization claimed on its Facebook page the bird was "eaten by local villagers." Hassib denied that the bird had been eaten, though he didn't know an exact cause of death. Urp...
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There's always a price to pay when technology intelligence assets are compromised. Wonder who gets this bill...
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Hassib denied that the bird had been eaten, though he didn't know an exact cause of death did mention his newly published cook book, featuring "Stork Stuffing".
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I suspect the real stool pigeon is still on the loose.
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Krazy Kat, Officer Bull Pupp, Don Kiyote, Mrs. Kwakk Wakk, The Mock Duck, Walter Cephus Austridge, Krazy Katbird, Krazy Katfish, and Gooseberry Sprig are gathered today to mourn for Joe Stork.
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The other day, you may have heard,
The police released a wading bird
They found his carcass by the Nile
He must have met a crocodile
When I came home last night at three
The stork was waiting there for me
I shrieked aloud and grabbed my tummy
This spectral bird must be a mummy
Go away, go away, get back to your storkophagus, ghoul!
Go away, go away, from now on I'll eat nothing but ful... (fart!)
[BBC.CO.UK] Australia's opposition has crushed the governing Labor party in a general election that has returned the Liberal-National coalition to power for the first time in six years.
The coalition won 88 seats to Labor's 57 in the 150-seat parliament.
Liberal leader Tony Abbott, who will be prime minister, promised a competent and trustworthy government.
Outgoing PM Kevin Rudd earlier admitted defeat and said he would not stand again for the Labor leadership.
The main election issues were how to tackle an expected economic slowdown, whether to keep a tax on carbon emissions, and how to reduce the number of asylum seekers arriving by boat.
Mr Rudd called the election after defeating Julia Gillard in a leadership challenge in June, amid dismal polling figures that showed Labor on course for a wipe-out.
Under Mr Rudd, Labor initially saw its figures improve. But Mr Abbott, who enjoyed the strident support of Rupert Murdoch's newspapers, then widened the gap again.
"From today I declare Australia is under new management and Australia is now open for business", Mr Abbott told a cheering crowd as he delivered a victory speech.
He said that he would put the budget back into surplus, and stop boats bringing migrants from Asia.
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Indonesia announced the final of the Miss World pageant later this month would take place on the Hindu-majority island of Bali instead of near the capital, after days of Muslim hardline protests. The disclosure is the latest sign of fringe Muslim groups' growing influence on authorities in Indonesia and their power to obstruct events they consider un-Islamic.
Last year, a Lady Gaga concert was cancelled after a series of protests, where extremists called her "the devil", threatened to torch the venue and denounced her for wearing only "a bra and panties".
Though Miss World organisers had already promised to replace bikinis with Balinese sarongs for its swimwear segment, thousands have taken to the streets this week to condemn the decision to hold the contest in Indonesia. On Friday, radicals burned the organisers in effigy and branded them "infidels".
The government said all events would now be held on Bali, where hardline influence is almost non-existent and where the Balinese are used to crowds of foreign tourists sunbathing in revealing swimwear.
Coordinating minister for people's welfare, Agung Laksono, said on Saturday, "All the events will now be held at venues in Bali. It will all be concentrated in Bali, until the closing." The government had "listened to what the people wanted," he added.
His comments came after around 600 people joined protests Saturday on Java island, bringing along goats wearing Miss World sashes to mock the event, while students in Surabaya held banners reading: "We are ready to die for the Miss World contest to be scrapped".
They join a human rights commissioner, government minister and mainstream Muslim groups who have all expressed their opposition to the event, many saying it exploited women and was an export of Western hedonism.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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A United Airlines plane en route to Brussels with more than 200 passengers returned to O'Hare International Airport Friday because of a "suspected security concern," according to the airline.
[BBC.CO.UK] Australia's opposition has crushed the governing Labor party in a general election that has returned the Liberal-National coalition to power for the first time in six years.
Indonesia announced the final of the Miss World pageant later this month would take place on the Hindu-majority island of Bali instead of near the capital, after days of Muslim hardline protests. The disclosure is the latest sign of fringe Muslim groups' growing influence on authorities in Indonesia and their power to obstruct events they consider un-Islamic.
