FW: Reuters Story- Pakistan airport closed for 2.5 hours

["Neal Hyde" <nhyde@xxxxxxxxx>]

This was forwarded to me by a fellow editor.

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Subject: Reuters Story


Hey guys, this may be nothing, but it may be a precursor of things to come

	ISLAMABAD, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Pakistan's army closed Islamabad
International Airport to commercial flights for two and half hours before
dawn on Friday for movement of military equipment, officials at the aviation
regulatory body said.
    "It was a unscheduled closure...and there was some very intense movement
of military hardware," a senior official of the Civil Aviation Authority
told Reuters.
    He said the airport was sealed off from 4 a.m. to 6:30 a.m. local time
(2300-0130 GMT).
    An official of state-run Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) <PIAa.KA>
said two of its scheduled flights to Islamabad were diverted to Karachi
because of the closure.
    Saulat Raza, director of the military's Inter-Services Public Relations
department, declined to comment and it was not clear if the closure was
linked to possible U.S. retaliation on Afghanistan for the terror attacks on
Washington and New York.