Romania rules out possibility of terrorist attack using TAROM aircraft

The use of Romanian Air Transport (TAROM) airplanes by Al-Qaida in order to organize an attack against London Heathrow Airport is an aberration, said on Monday Bogdan Donciu, the Director General of Civil Aviation Department with the Ministry of Transports.

"Romania is audited as for its air safety by three bodies: the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the European Civil Aviation Organization (ECAC) and the European Commission, starting with 2002. If eventual deficiencies signaled by these auditors were not observed, no Romanian aircraft would be allowed to fly outside the country," said Bogdan Donciu.

TAROM official stressed that British security systems are installed on the airports in Romania.

"There is no question of weak safety measures because, as you can see, we are over-controlled. This is pure aberration," said Bogdan Donciu.

According to the Romanian Rompres news agency, Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf reveals in his autobiography "In Line of Fire: a Memoir" that Sheik Khalid Mohammed, the supposed "brain " of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and of other several plans of terrorist attacks against Great Britain, had plans to attack the Heathrow airport in London, in 2002, by using airplanes that took off from European airports and were held by air companies from the Czech Republic, Croatia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Malta, due to weak safety measures there.

Al-Qaida, according to Musharraf, selected Moslem faithfuls who lived in Europe, among whom some whites converted to Islam, in order to ram the hijacked airplanes into terminals and into the fuel supply installations on the main airport in London.

Source: Xinhua