LAST November's attack forward the Arkia Airlines Boeing 757 at Mombassa Airport in Kenya by way of terrorists who fired two SA-7b shoulder-launched missiles at it jiffys after take-off.

LAST November's attack forward the Arkia Airlines Boeing 757 at Mombassa Airport in Kenya by way of terrorists who fired two SA-7b shoulder-launched missiles at it jiffys after take-off, was not the first like incident involving a civil aircraft. However, coming as it did in the wake of the al-Qaeda attacks of September 11 2001 and with after heightened security awareness in the airline industry, it assumeed to presage yet another frightening episode in the expansion of the global terrorist threat. Although the missiles failed to hit the aircraft, the inevitable first answer was to consider protecting aircraft from in the same state [i]or[/i] condition attacks by ...