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Airline pilot, lawyer, child on terror 'watch list'

Aug 20, 2008
Story Timeline:  141 days

Commercial pilot can carry gun in cockpit yet name is on terror "watch list" No kiosk, online or curbside check-in is possible for those on watch list 8-year-old boy doesn't know what a "terrorist" is but is on the watch list, too Blame for situation goes back and forth between the feds and the airlines From Drew Griffin and Kathleen Johnston CNN SAN FRANCISCO, California (CNN) -- James Robinson is a retired Air National Guard brigadier general and a commercial pilot for a major airline who flies passenger planes around the country. James Robinson is a retired brigadier general and a commercial pilot. His name is on the terrorist "watch list." He has even been certified by the Transportation Security Administration to carry a weapon into the cockpit as part of the government's defense program should a terrorist try to... [read full story]                    

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