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To: WestCoastGal; freeperfromnj
Gheese!!!

http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0600uk/content_objectid=13784699_method=full_siteid=50082_headline=-Terror-fears-delay-flight-again--name_page.html

Also yesterday, it was revealed that BBC journalist Sophie Hull and two cameramen had managed to walk through an unmanned barrier into a high-security area at Humberside airport.

The three media representatives spent half an hour wandering among the planes in the aircraft manoeuvring area at the airport before being stopped by security staff.

Ms Hull, who was questioned for nearly three hours by Special Branch officers before being released without charge, said it was "surprisingly simple" to get into the airport.

A spokesman for the airport said, "We have appropriate levels of security - appropriate to all of the sensitive areas of the airport."

7,037 posted on 01/06/2004 9:37:11 AM PST by OXENinFLA ("Freedom is God's gift to every man and woman who lives in this world." - Pres. Bush 1-5-03)
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To: OXENinFLA
Seems that security in some places is not what it should be.

Published December 29, 2003 AZAircraftArrest

PHOENIX - A 57-year-old Florida man was arrested after he allegedly took a utility knife on a plane.

A passenger on a Northwest Airlines flight departing from Phoenix reported seeing Peter Joseph Martin with a five-inch utility knife as the plane was leaving the gate on Sunday, said FBI spokesman Susan Herskovits.

When confronted by a flight attendant, Martin gave the knife to the attendant, and the plane returned to the gate, Herskovits said.

Martin was being held in Maricopa County Jail on suspicion of bringing a dangerous weapon on an aircraft.

Herskovits declined to comment on why Martin may have brought the utility knife aboard or to say whether federal authorities had interviewed him.

The Northwest flight, which was bound for St. Paul and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., was allowed to continue Sunday after Martin was detained.

7,039 posted on 01/06/2004 9:44:22 AM PST by WestCoastGal ("Hire paranoids, they may have a high false alarm rate, but they discover all the plots" Rumsfeld)
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