The One
9th November 2010, 16:34
http://voiceofkarachi.blogspot.com/2010/10/us-intelligence-trades-on-fear.html
A suspect device was found at East *Midlands Airport during a routine search of cargo on a plane from Yemen that was heading for Chicago.
It sparked a worldwide alert as United Parcel Service cargoes were searched in US cities Philadelphia and Newark. UPS trucks were halted and searched by police in New York.
The *parcels are believed to have been *addressed to synagogues in Chicago.
Officials in Dubai said a suspect parcel examined there contained explosives.
Intelligence sources said the packages could be part of a possible terrorist plot hatched in Yemen. Staff at East Midlands Airport at Castle Donington, Leics, found an ink toner *cartridge full of white powder with wires *attached.
Call me cynical, but I find it too much of a coincidence that this bizarre alert came less than 24 hours after British Airways chairman Martin Broughton has accused the country of bowing to U.S. demands for increased airport security measures.
Mr. Broughton criticized the U.S. for imposing more security checks on U.S.-bound flights, but not on its own domestic services.
He urged the UK to stop bowing to demands for passengers to take their shoes off and to put any laptop computers through scanners to be screened separately.
The UK government said it would give airport operators permission to review their security procedures and I hope they stick to their promise despite all this nonsense.
One of the most ridiculous procedures we have to go through is to submit all of our potions, lotions and liquids to airport security.
This came about because of the so-called plot to blow 10 airliners out of the sky. That the fools behind this crazy scheme didn’t even have passports or a collective IQ of George W. Bush mattered not.
A video was shown of an explosion onboard a plane if this chemical had been mixed with that chemical.
The fact the bomb makers would have had to create sub zero laboratory conditions onboard a plane which would take around 40 minutes, mattered not.
As a frequent flyer I can tell you no one would be allowed to hog the tiny toilets for more than five minutes.
Yet despite this nonsense we have to hand over our liquids, but can buy them in vast quantities minutes later having past through airport security.
Mercifully in Britain the majority of us refuse to get caught up in this bloody nonsense for many different reasons. The primary one being we had already endured more than three decades of this during the height of the IRA activities in London.
Virtually every single day for 30 years there would be some terror alert in the English capital -- it was called shoestring terrorism. One telephone call could bring a halt to a section of the London Underground.
The police would make their necessary checks, the media would ignore it and we all got on with our lives refusing to be intimidated by Irish terrorism.
And that is exactly how we should have treated Friday’s terror nonsense -- that does not mean to say people should be reckless or less vigilant but governments should stop trying to impose a fear factor on its citizens
A suspect device was found at East *Midlands Airport during a routine search of cargo on a plane from Yemen that was heading for Chicago.
It sparked a worldwide alert as United Parcel Service cargoes were searched in US cities Philadelphia and Newark. UPS trucks were halted and searched by police in New York.
The *parcels are believed to have been *addressed to synagogues in Chicago.
Officials in Dubai said a suspect parcel examined there contained explosives.
Intelligence sources said the packages could be part of a possible terrorist plot hatched in Yemen. Staff at East Midlands Airport at Castle Donington, Leics, found an ink toner *cartridge full of white powder with wires *attached.
Call me cynical, but I find it too much of a coincidence that this bizarre alert came less than 24 hours after British Airways chairman Martin Broughton has accused the country of bowing to U.S. demands for increased airport security measures.
Mr. Broughton criticized the U.S. for imposing more security checks on U.S.-bound flights, but not on its own domestic services.
He urged the UK to stop bowing to demands for passengers to take their shoes off and to put any laptop computers through scanners to be screened separately.
The UK government said it would give airport operators permission to review their security procedures and I hope they stick to their promise despite all this nonsense.
One of the most ridiculous procedures we have to go through is to submit all of our potions, lotions and liquids to airport security.
This came about because of the so-called plot to blow 10 airliners out of the sky. That the fools behind this crazy scheme didn’t even have passports or a collective IQ of George W. Bush mattered not.
A video was shown of an explosion onboard a plane if this chemical had been mixed with that chemical.
The fact the bomb makers would have had to create sub zero laboratory conditions onboard a plane which would take around 40 minutes, mattered not.
As a frequent flyer I can tell you no one would be allowed to hog the tiny toilets for more than five minutes.
Yet despite this nonsense we have to hand over our liquids, but can buy them in vast quantities minutes later having past through airport security.
Mercifully in Britain the majority of us refuse to get caught up in this bloody nonsense for many different reasons. The primary one being we had already endured more than three decades of this during the height of the IRA activities in London.
Virtually every single day for 30 years there would be some terror alert in the English capital -- it was called shoestring terrorism. One telephone call could bring a halt to a section of the London Underground.
The police would make their necessary checks, the media would ignore it and we all got on with our lives refusing to be intimidated by Irish terrorism.
And that is exactly how we should have treated Friday’s terror nonsense -- that does not mean to say people should be reckless or less vigilant but governments should stop trying to impose a fear factor on its citizens