Posted on 08/09/2006 10:17:04 PM PDT by gary_b_UK
A major terrorist plot to blow up planes in mid-flight has been disrupted by police, Scotland Yard says.
It is thought the plan was to detonate explosive devices smuggled on board aircraft in hand luggage.
During the night, police arrested a number of people in London after a counter-terrorist operation they said had lasted several months.
Police believe the attacks would have been particularly targeted at flights from the UK to the US.
The Department for Transport said security at all UK airports has been increased.
Passengers on all flights will not be allowed to take any hand luggage on to any flights in the UK.
Only the barest essentials - including passports and wallets - will be allowed to be carried on board in transparent plastic bags.
LA Mayor Villaracista to hold a press conference at 11pdt,2edt
Looks like this was it after all: US raises air security alert to red for first time.
Great! I love it. Connecticut has a history of electing independents you know. Although, splitting the Dem vote might elect a ...Republican.
I wish they'd thwart the idiot that won't put the cellphone away when we're trying to take off.
My wife is flying out of Ontario today. She's at the airport right now, but I haven't heard from her about the security situation there.
Yes, thanks for pointing that out.
I bet it is manageable...people seemed pretty eager to toss their AquaNet.
I saw some CNNi reporterette interviewing an American family in Heathrow...she was trying to get a rise out of them...but they were taking it all in style, and praised the security people....they had an airport provided box that they put all their carryons into and taped it up and sent it into the plane.
I saw that same interiew! The one with about five kids! My impression was the same thing, she was trolling for something bad and, hard as they tried, they just didn't deliver for her..........LOL.
MSNBC just reported that one of the "suspects" worked at Heathrow.
I like Joe's honesty and his support for a strong national defense. But that's about it. I'm sure Hillary was all set to finally choose to support Lamont. After today, I have little doubt it will be Lieberman. Decisions, decisions, senatrix.
Apparently, that's incorrect. Carry-on drinks are banned as well.
Oh, cripes...One of them WORKED at Heathrow.
Mayor of Los Angeles Mexico on now
LOL!
In that case, I sincerely hope that they put every last nestegg dollar into airline equity "investiments", prior to getting their lunatic wet dreams of "flying alcatraz islands of security" imposed on the industry.
Unless they get a law passed REQUIRING people to line up at the check-in gates, there remains something called "free choice" in a FREE country. Make air travel sufficiently onerous, obnoxious, abusisive, and painful, and people will vote with their dollars, and the seats of their pants -- which will be planted firmly in the family sedan.
Not alltogether a bad thing, mind you. People will rediscover the joy of cross-country travel "the old fashioned way". They will get to see "flyover country" from GROUND level. Ever hear of a book called "Blue Highways"? There's an entire America UNKNOWN by hundreds of millions of rush-rush-hustle-bustle get-me-there-NOW folks.
Piling the family into the car, Triple-A "triptic" in the glovebox (screw the GPS, get it on PAPER! :), camera loaded with Kodachrome (there is NOTHING like Kodachrome -- enjoy it while you can!), and a nice, leisurely TRIP across the country...
It will probably keep a LOT of families from breaking up, too, what with it being the ONLY time they actually spend ANY significant amount of "quality time" together!
So hey, go right ahead -- finish the job of converting air travel into hell in the sky. Make it completely repellant to as many folks as possible. The downside is that we the taxpayers will natrually be forced to bail out the SOBs who ran the industry into the red, but that's the way of the socialist, and people DO get the government they deserve. Don't like it? Then stop electing Democrats and "Democrat-Lite" rulers. Until then, shut up, bend over, and fork out.
But, that aside, there is nothing but upside to families traveling together, cross country, in their cars.
I myself resolved to NEVER again subject myself to the abuse that air travel has become -- and this was BEFORE 9/11! Mind you, I used to enjoy flying. Always tried for a window seat (NOT over the wing), and loved takeoffs and landings.
But, gradually, the rudeness factor of the "flight attendants" went through the roof, to the point of outright abusiveness (and consistently so). And, the skill level of the "man behind the wheel" went throught the floor.
After a bunch of white-knuckle landings, and "near-death experiences" due to "equipment malfunctions" (resulting in "we THINK we can land successfully" announcements) -- combined with angry S(&D)OBs "wif addatood") patrolling the aisles -- I finally said screw this crap (actuall statement used words beginning with "F" and "S"), and resolved to stay on the ground, unless I ever manage to get my OWN airplane (in other words, forever).
I know that I am hardly alone in my sentiments. And calls for pushing the bar even further into the "jailhaus in the sky" region, will only hasten the day that everyone travels on the ground, other than those FEW poor souls who MUST travel by air -- and even for them, you can bet good money that alternatives will quickly flesh out (i.e., teleconferencing, elimintation of unnecessary "ego-stroking for da boss" meetings, and so forth).
A once-great mode of transportation has been ruined, likely forever. And the scumbag terrorists aren't the main culprits, other than in the sense that they provided an excuse for those who longed for the day of completly regimented air travel.
Let the hardnoses laugh. Remember, the harder the nose, the easier it shatters when it runs into a brick wall. And that's where they're headed with their brand of "logic", LOL!
Mayor Villaracista has the whole Mexican Mafia with him....they should ask him about throwing out term limits last week.
LA Mayor says he will catch the terrorists before they step into LAX, and put them away for life....
yeah right.
24 in custody, per MSNBC.
Are there still ones out there they haven't gotten?
I love my pediatrician because she is "old school". I would never give my kids more than an amount she said to give, and I only flew with them once on a round trip. The benadryl I don't think really helped them sleep so I didn't use it on the way home, but the lollipops were definitely a hit almost the whole flight.
Jeeze, it was like listening to a campaign speech. Don't these dems have ANY class at all? The only thing missing was for him to thank his mother and his wife.
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