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| Major airports on high alert after |
| Major airports on high alert after hijack threats
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| INDIA
, 8-December-2008
0:44:30 AM |
| Airports across the country were on Thursday put on high alert in the wake of intelligence reports that terrorists from Pakistan or Afghanistan may strike using a hijacked airport even as the Indian Air Force said it is prepared to counter a 9/11 type aerial attack on New York.
Passengers were frisked and baggage checked thoroughly and additional paramilitary and police personnel deployed especially in Delhi, Bangalore and Chennai airports in the light of reports the Government has received that terrorists may target them by hijacking an aircraft around the anniversary of Babri Mosque demolition on December 6.
"This (report about terrorists carrying out a possible aerial attack) is based on a warning which has been received (by the government). The reports, which came close on the heels of the Mumbai Terror siege, also spoke of possibility of aircraft being hijacked by terrorists" IAF Chief Fali Homi Major said.
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