I couldn't agree more, but it's the police state where petty functionaries wield power maliciously that I fear more than an airplane bombing.

Among them was the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, an organization that has been linked to airplane bombings in the past, according to the officials.

Metal detectors at airports have reduced the number of airplane bombings and skyjackings to nearly zero.

Venezuela announced that it had delivered to the United States a formal extradition request for a Cuban exile wanted for involvement in an airplane bombing.

Graham was executed in 1957 for the pre-meditated murder of his mother, as there was no federal statute for the carrying out of an airplane bombing.

Like the United States and Britain, France did not repeat earlier assertions implicating Syria and Iran in the two airplane bombings.

Perhaps as quid pro quo, French investigators have said they have no evidence that Colonel Qaddafi personally ordered the airplane bombing, and have not accused him.

He added that while terrorists have used plastic explosives like C4 and Semtex in high-profile airplane bombings, they have more often used less sophisticated explosives in other attacks.

Finally the next day, the Japanese succeeded in driving Li's forces out of the town mainly as a result of airplane bombing, against which they had little defense.

Reacting to airplane bombings in Russia, the security administration announced the new policy allowing screeners to more intimately pat down passengers on Sept. 22.