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Report Confirms Airline Terror Attack Dry Run
[Washington Times] Audrey Hudson - A newly released Department of Homeland Security inspector general's report backs eyewitness accounts of suspicious behavior by 13 Middle Eastern men on a Northwest Airlines flight in 2004. According to the report, the "suspicious passengers," 12 Syrians and their Lebanese-born promoter, were traveling on Flight 327 from Detroit to Los Angeles on expired visas. A background check in the FBI's National Crime Information Center database produced "positive hits" for past criminal records or suspicious behavior for eight of the 12 Syrians, who were traveling in the U.S. as a musical group. Passenger and air marshals had said the incident resembled a dry run for a terrorist attack.