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18 AUGUST: WELLINGTON 20 AUGUST: SCOTLAND 23 AUGUST: NEW ORLEANS
Vladimir Maricic, 25, was sentenced to 200 Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, convicted of the Paul Henry Boritzer, 46, was found guilty of
hours' community work for twice shining a Lockerbie bombing, was released from prison on interfering with flight crew and impersonating a
laser into the cockpit of a Mt Cook Airlines compassionate grounds. He returned to Libya to Federal Air Marshal while he was travelling from New
flight as it approached Wellington Airport in spend his final few months at home as he is, York to New Orleans for Mardi Gras in February.
March 2008. allegedly, suffering terminal prostate cancer.
30 AUGUST: THIRUvANANTHAPURAM
A Kuwait Airways flight was denied take-off
clearance when the Kerala Police realised
that there was a passenger on board with
supposed al-Qaeda connections. The
passenger, Kabir, who was on a government
watch-list was later arrested.
3 SEPTEMBER: DETROIT
A court rejected the claims made by five
passengers of Middle Eastern descent that
American Airlines had been guilty of racial
discrimination when they were offloaded from a
flight, set to operate from San Diego to Chicago,
as a result of their suspicious behaviour.
12 SEPTEMBER: OXFORD, UK
20 AUGUST: HONG KONG Two climate change activists, protesting at
Three airport security staff were arrested, the airport’s expansion, were arrested after
and 10 others suspended, when CCTV they had climbed under a hedge and jumped
footage showed their involvement in the over a fence to reach the runway at the
theft of money from a passenger’s bag at a recently renamed London Oxford Airport.
security checkpoint.
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