Official: No laser, terrorism link (CNN)

[Newsjock]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/01/03/laser.aircraft/index.html

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The FBI investigation into recent incidents involving laser beams aimed at aircraft has found no link to terrorism, the Department of Homeland Security's transportation security chief said Monday.

"There's not any evidence that these lasers are being used by terrorists," said Asa Hutchinson, undersecretary of border and transportation security. "The FBI certainly continues to investigate and look at these fact scenarios. It's also a safety issue that the Department of Transportation would certainly want to look at."

... Hutchinson noted that laser pointers "can be off-the-shelf technology" that is easily obtained.

"We do not know whether it is pranksters, whether it is criminal conduct -- we don't know completely. That's what's got to be checked out," he said. "It's going to be reviewed completely and there's not any indication that this is endangering the safety of the passengers on the flights."

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[Ediacara]

1. we don't know, we don't know, we don't know completely

but we know it CAN'T be terrorists. Jeez... I can hardly get a laser pointer to aim at an overhead screen 5 feet away, how are you going to aim a laser pointer aimed directly at an airplane that's flying thousands of feet above you?

[moondust]

2. Really dumb.

We don't know who it is but we do know who it isn't.

How about this: We don't know the world is flat or square or trapezoidal or cylindrical or anything else but we have no evidence that it is round.

[daleo]

4. There are unknown unknowns, and known unknowns...

This guy has went to the Rummy school of sophistry.

[Chicago Democrat]

3. Lets waste a ton of time on bullshit...

and let the real terrorists get us with our pants down.

[MindPilot]

5. apparently they noticed

we weren't buying that one.

[Trillo]

6. Politics of the New World Order?

Has anyone correlated the locations of these incidents to congressional districts? Or perhaps to certain people on those particular planes?

Sometimes it seems that Congress is being told what to do, and not do, by groups other than their constituents.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

7. That is because the USAF told them it was them playing with

the lasers, and to lay off?

[truthisfreedom]

8. the idiots think that since there's two pilots on a plane, they can afford

to have one go blind.