{"id":300,"date":"2009-04-07T20:42:52","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T20:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/cityofbrass\/2009\/04\/madison-wi-terrorist-target.html"},"modified":"2009-04-07T20:42:52","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T20:42:52","slug":"madison-wi-terrorist-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/2009\/04\/madison-wi-terrorist-target.html","title":{"rendered":"Madison, WI &#8211; terrorist target?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I live in the Madison area, and had absolutely no clue that <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/story?id=7273710&amp;page=1\">any of this drama<\/a> was playing out until I overheard someone talking about it the next morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A pilot who allegedly stole a Cessna plane from a Canadian flight<br \/>\nschool and was pursued for hours across the Midwest by fighter jets,<br \/>\nwas taken into custody after he landed on a Missouri highway late today<br \/>\nand took off running, an FBI spokesman said.<br \/>\n<br \/>&#8230;<br \/>The pilot was identified as Yavuz Berke, formerly known as Adam Leon, a<br \/>\n31-year-old naturalized Canadian citizen who was born in Turkey, Kolko<br \/>\nsaid.<br \/>\n<br \/>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe plane entered American airspace over Michigan&#8217;s Upper Peninsula at<br \/>\n4:23 p.m. ET today and was trailed by the military aircraft since 4:43<br \/>\np.m. as it flew over Minnesota, south through Wisconsin, Illinois and<br \/>\nMissouri.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAt one point, the Wisconsin state capitol building in Madison was evacuated as a precaution as the plane flew over the city. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow. This went completely unmentioned on the radio news stations. I feel like I&#8217;ve failed some test of Blogger Awareness. Glad <a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/at-one-point-wisconsin-state-capitol.html\">I&#8217;m not the only one<\/a> to have been caught unawares.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I live in the Madison area, and had absolutely no clue that any of this drama was playing out until I overheard someone talking about it the next morning: A pilot who allegedly stole a Cessna plane from a Canadian flight school and was pursued for hours across the Midwest by fighter jets, was taken&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stranger-than-fiction"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Madison, WI - terrorist target? 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The name City of Brass refers to the Story of the City of Brass in the Thousand and One Nights, and the poem by Rudyard Kipling of the same name: Here was a people whom, after their works, thou shalt see wept over for their lost dominion; And in this palace is the last information respecting lords collected in the dust. -- Thousand and One Nights, Story of the City of Brass IN A land that the sand overlays, the ways to her gates are untrod, A multitude ended their days whose fates were made splendid by God, Till they grew drunk and were smitten with madness and went to their fall, And of these is a story written: but Allah Alone knoweth all! -- Rudyard Kipling, The City of Brass (1909)"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}