Thursday - August 10, 2006

Terror In The Skies?

Here we go again. They’re striking at us using our open transportation systems. The solution to this is easy: nuke Iran back into the Stone Age, behead Saddam Hussein in a public square and hang any terrorists caught trying to blow up planes - and leave their carcasses hanging out in the open while the buzzards pick their eyeballs out. You aren’t going to get through to these people until you show them you’re just as mean and nasty as they are. The same strategy should work for Liberals who believe in appeasing these jerks. Make it so, number one ...

Airlines Terror Plot Disrupted
LONDON (BBC) - Thursday, 10 August 2006, 11:37 GMT 12:37 UK

A plot to blow up planes in flight from the UK to the US and commit “mass murder on an unimaginable scale” has been disrupted, Scotland Yard has said. It is thought the plan was to detonate explosive devices smuggled in hand luggage on to as many as 10 aircraft.

Police are searching premises after 21 people were arrested. Home Secretary John Reid said they believed the “main players” were accounted for. High security is causing delays at all UK airports. The threat level to the UK has been raised by MI5 to critical after the arrests in London, High Wycombe and Birmingham.

Critical threat level - the highest - means “an attack is expected imminently and indicates an extremely high level of threat to the UK”. Three US airlines are believed to have been targeted. Mr Reid said had the attack gone ahead it would have caused a loss of life of “unprecedented scale”.

He said they were “confident” the main players were in custody, but neither the police nor government are “in any way complacent”. BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera said the plot was thought to have involved a series of “waves” of simultaneous attacks, targeting three planes each time.

He also said the plan “revolved around liquids of some kind”. “Officials say the explosives would have been sophisticated and extremely effective,” our correspondent said. Meanwhile, Heathrow Airport has been closed to all incoming flights that are not already in the air, while several outbound services have been cancelled.

- More on this at the BBC ...

—Two terrorists arrested in Ohio

—Three Egyptian fugitives in US caught, eight still missing

New Passenger Carry-On Rules In England:

All cabin baggage must be processed as hold baggage and carried in the hold of passenger aircraft departing UK airports.

Passengers may take through the airport security search point, in a single (ideally transparent) plastic carrier bag, only the following items. Nothing may be carried in pockets:

- Pocket-size wallets and pocket-size purses plus contents (for example money, credit cards, identity cards etc (not handbags)

- Travel documents essential for the journey (for example passports and travel tickets)

- Prescription medicines and medical items sufficient and essential for the flight (eg, diabetic kit), except in liquid form unless verified as authentic

- Spectacles and sunglasses, without cases

- Contact lens holders, without bottles of solution

- For those travelling with an infant: baby food, milk (the contents of each bottle must be tasted by the accompanying passenger) and sanitary items sufficient and essential for the flight (nappies, wipes, creams and nappy disposal bags)

- Female sanitary items sufficient and essential for the flight, if unboxed (eg tampons, pads, towels and wipes)

- Tissues (unboxed) and/or handkerchiefs

- Keys (but no electrical key fobs). All passengers must be hand searched, and their footwear and all the items they are carrying must be X-ray screened.

Pushchairs and walking aids must be X-ray screened, and only airport-provided wheelchairs may pass through the screening point.

In addition to the above, all passengers boarding flights to the USA and all the items they are carrying, including those acquired after the central screening point, must be subjected to secondary search at the boarding gate.

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- Stix Blog

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Posted by The Skipper     on 08/10/2006 at 08:37 AM   
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