Kerry to Iraq: Stop Allowing Flights From Iran to Syria

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry pressed Iraq to stop allowing Iranian flights apparently carrying military equipment through its airspace headed to Syria, on a surprise visit to Baghdad on Sunday. AFP reported that Kerry warned Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki that Washington was “watching what Iraq is doing,” the highest-level criticism yet of Baghdad for […]

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TSA: No Room for Sequestration Cuts?

Photo credit: Newscom President Obama claims that unless Congress raises taxes to undo the imminent automatic budget cuts known as sequestration, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) would be forced to reduce security measures, leaving travelers and the airways vulnerable and increasing wait times at airports. Is there really not a dime that could be cut […]

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Focus on Turkish Airlines’ Fashion

by Daniel Pipes February 10, 2013 updated Feb 11, 2013 In an upbeat 2008 article, “When fashion meets the skies!” the THY in-flight magazine Skylife celebrated 75 years of stewardess fashion with pictures and prose. Some excerpts from the airline’s fashion history: Hostesses first graced our planes with their presence in the late 1940’s. Since […]

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Obama’s Air-Sea Blockade Plan for Iran Delays Israeli Strike

US President Barack Obama has again persuaded Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to hold off attacking Iran’s nuclear program in the coming months by promising a new set of severe sanctions against Iran. US administration officials assured debkafile’s Washington sources that Israel’s leaders were won over by the Obama administration’s promise to ratchet up US […]

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Flytilla Fails to Take Off

Flytilla Fails to Take Off April 16, 2012 14:14 by Simon Plosker It was meant to be a Palestinian PR dream. Over 2,000 activists scheduled to converge on Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport, arriving on planes from around the world as part of a “Welcome to Palestine” flytilla. Israel had done its homework, however. No-fly lists of […]

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