John Reid
UK terror plot foiled
- Posted by Rob (#1) on August 10, 2006 07:27 CEST
A major terrorist plot to blow up planes in mid-flight has been disrupted, says Scotland Yard, says BBC.
Passengers will not be allowed to take any hand luggage on to any flights in the UK, the department said.
Only the barest essentials - including passports and wallets - will be allowed to be carried on board in transparent plastic bags.
Glad I'm not flying today.
Interesting how this happens just a day after home secretary John Reid warned:
The UK might have to modify its freedoms in the short term in order to prevent their "misuse and abuse" by terrorists, John Reid has said.
He conceded that was never an easy request, but it was up to everyone to ask: "What price our security, at what cost can we preserve our freedoms?"
The UK faced its "most sustained period of severe threat since the end of World War II", the home secretary warned.
I think Benjamin Franklin would have a few words to say about that..
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