Posted on 08/09/2006 10:17:04 PM PDT by gary_b_UK
bttt
Thanks!
No.............TWO are women; one with a six month old baby and one who is about eight+ months pregnant.
We are just fine -- having a great time. Wanted to reassure you all since we expect you may be concerned about the news of the problems at the airport, etc. There appears to be a lot of security personnel here in London, but things seem very normal. We have been unaware of any problems. I expect that by the time we start home that the airport will be probably about normal again. Evidently there are serious boarding restrictions in effect -- no carry-on at all, just your ticket, passport and money in a plastic bag. No books, water, or anything at allis allowed! No book! I expect that things will be even safer coming home since there is such a high alert situation. Please don't worry about us. We are having a wonderful experience and are not worried or upset about anything at all.
Will be in touch again before we start home.
Much love to all of you,
Barb and Sue
I heard that.
THANKS for posting the update Nopardons.
I heard that this morning. My grandson is 7 months. Doing that with a baby or while pregnant just does not register.
I can't even imagine.
UPDATE...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1682069/posts
"Pakistan nabs 17 in airplane terror plot"
AP via Yahooooo ^ | August 11, 2006 | MATTHEW PENNINGTON
Posted on 08/11/2006 2:28:22 PM PDT by ARealMothersSonForever
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistani intelligence agents have arrested as many as 17 people, some of them British nationals and at least one with alleged ties to al-Qaida, in the plot to blow up jetliners flying from Britain to the United States.
Britain hailed Pakistan's help in thwarting the planned attack, but the arrests on Pakistani soil showed that despite its successes against al-Qaida, the country remains a fertile ground for Islamic militancy.
British authorities arrested 24 people Thursday in what they said was a scheme to bring down as many as 10 jetliners in a nearly simultaneous strike. The suspects were believed to be mainly British Muslims, at least some of Pakistani ancestry.
The Foreign Ministry said that acting on information received from Britain, Pakistan had made arrests that triggered the arrests in Britain. It named British national Rashid Rauf as a "key person" who had been nabbed in Pakistan.
Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao alleged that Rauf has ties with the al-Qaida terror network.
"We arrested him from the border area and on his disclosure we shared the information with British authorities, which led to further arrests in Britain," the interior minister told The Associated Press.
Foreign Minister Khursheed Kasuri, in an interview with CNN, confirmed the arrests of seven suspects in Pakistan, including Britons. He said the suspects "had been monitored for quite some time" before they were arrested.
Another senior government official said they included two Britons of Pakistani origin who were arrested about a week ago, and five Pakistanis detained in the eastern city of Lahore and the southern city of Karachi. The Pakistanis were arrested on suspicion that they served as the Britons' local facilitators, the official said.
An official at the British High Commission in Islamabad said he could not confirm the arrests of any Britons in Pakistan."
My grandson is just shy of five months old and neither my daughter nor I can imagine how these women could have engaged in this plot; but then, the Islamonaizs don't behave like human beings. Heck, they don't even behave like animals of any kind.
bttt
Smiling...I saw that earlier.
Thank you Seadog Bytes.
Thanks for your well-wishes! Flights like that make me wish I drank! They did let us buy books at duty-free after we went through security, and we could board with them on KLM as long as we kept the receipt showing we'd bought them at duty-free. Luckily they had the same titles as we'd checked, so we had "our" books for the flight, albeit duplicates.
They still haven't changed the teensy size and lack of leg room on those transatlantic flights, though, and with all the new hassle, we probably won't be travelling any time soon by plane except as necessary.
Just PLEASE,
ALWAYS REMEMBER, HELL OR HIGHWATER AND WHATEVER ELSE MAY COME
THAT I'LL ALWAYS HOLD YOU AND HUBBY CLOSE TO MY HEART--WITH IT FULL OF THANKFULNESS AND APPRECIATION for your friendship and prayers and caring.
And the same right back in your behalf.
LUB,
Aaaaaaaaaaaaw....thanks. :-)
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