Just a week to go before I fly out of Texas to Virginia for the niece’s wedding. So, naturally, the shocking airplane stories are starting to appear. Fortunately we’ll not be crossing any oceans nor flying British Airways.
"The British art of understatement found its expression in this article about the British Airways pilot / management decision to press on with the flight despite a fire in one of the engines."
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"Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said there was no indication of plotting in the United States but said officials cannot assume that the terror operation in Britain had been completely thwarted."
Odd, to me, that the focus would be on liquid explosives carried on when the vulnerability of baggage holds hasn’t changed much since 9/11. Afterall, the Pan Am 103 747 explosion over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988 was a baggage hold bomb.
One thing that rarely changes in the reports of these plots is the squeamishness about the Islamic identity of the perps. Although Chertoff did say Al Q seemed to be involved, you might need to go as far as Belfast, Northern Ireland to get the actual detail.
"Police have arrested 21 people, thought to be young British Muslims, in London, the Thames Valley area and Birmingham."
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