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USA Today leads with a report that because of the general reluctance to fly this coming New Year's Eve, America's domestic airspace will be nearly empty--only 45 airliners will be aloft--when the next millennium hits.
Yousef was captured in Pakistan following the discovery by police in the Philippines in January 1995 of the Manila air plot, which envisioned placing bombs on board a dozen trans-Pacific airliners and setting them off simultaneously.
After 9/11, some Philippine government officials claimed that while in Philippine custody in February 1995, KSM's Manila air plot co-conspirator Abdul Hakim Murad had confessed having discussed with Yousef the idea of attacking targets, including the World Trade Center, with hijacked commercial airliners flown by U.S.-trained Middle Eastern pilots.
The pilots knew their mission was to divert aircraft, but did not know that the threat came from hijacked airliners.
The USAT off-lead and the top story in the Wall Street Journal business news index is that later this week, on the heels of a spate of problems with Boeing airliners, the FAA will start a thorough safety inspection of the company's manufacturing plants, focusing on quality control procedures.