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Officials say two Air France flights bound for Paris from the U.S. were diverted because of threats on Tuesday night. One plane landed in Salt Lake City, Utah. The other landed in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Both planes have been cleared. Finishing dinner service when the air pressure began to change. Ingley, a freelance journalist and former Arizona Republic editorial writer, was flying to Paris to visit her daughter’s family, a trip she makes three or four times a year.
And then the flight attendants told us we would be making an emergency landing,” Ingley said by phone from the Salt Lake City International Airport. “They told us to put trays on the floor and tighten our seat belts and get anything out of the aisles. No one had any idea what the problem was. Every possible scenario runs through your mind.”
Keith Rosso of Santa Monica, California, a passenger on the flight from Los Angeles with his fiancee, said “everything was smooth, everything was great, everything was going swell” for the first two hours of the flight, then things changed.
“The flight attendants quickly came by and cleared plates, then there was an announcement that we were making an emergency landing and that the flight attendants were trained exactly for situations like this,” Rosso told The Associated Press by phone from the airport.
He said he looked at the flight monitor at his seat and saw that “we had made a pretty sharp right turn — we had been almost near Canada — toward Salt Lake City.”
The jet made a quick descent toward the Utah capital, where it was greeted on the tarmac by more than a dozen emergency vehicles. Ingley said passengers exited the plane with their bags and were bused to another part of the airport to be interviewed and have their bags searched.
Officials on the ground at the airport told passengers that a bomb threat had prompted the emergency landing, Ingley said. SOURCE
Paris France a raid has erupted in a shootout as 5 Policemen are down and wounded and 2 Terrorist are dead as 7 Muslim terrorist are surrounded
Paris France a raid has erupted in a shootout as 5 Policemen are down and wounded and 2 Terrorist are dead as 7 Muslim terrorist are surrounded.
Two confirmed dead, seven arrested, five police injured in Saint-Denis raid
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• Suspects were “preparing another attack” on Paris’ commercial centre and airport
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Rory Mulholland writes: Jihadists began leaving Raqqa, the Islamic State’s de facto capital in Syria, for Mosul in Iraq several days before Friday’s deadly attacks in Paris that were claimed by the terror group, France’s leading source on the foreign fighters there said.
David Thomson, a journalist who has the country’s most extensive contacts with French nationals fighting in Syria, said Mosul, another Isil stronghold, was seen as much safer because Raqqa was being pummelled by coalition air strikes.
France launched a third night of retaliatory strikes on Raqqa on Tuesday night, reportedly hitting two command centres. At least 33 militants have been killed in the city and its outskirts over the past 3 days, according to the Syrian Observatory.
French President François Hollande said after Friday’s attacks that they were an “act of war” committed by Isil’s “terrorist army”.
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