January 6, 2010

Flying With Weapons of Mass Destruction

My heart sank just a little bit further at the New Year when that lunatic tried to blow up a plane with a bomb in his underpants. It’s not enough that earnest people take our toothpaste, sun tan lotion and contact lens solutions when we try and board an aeroplane. Now we can [...]

Tags: Airlines, airport security, al qaeda, terrorisim

September 7, 2009

Airline Bomb Plotters Locked Up

It’s rare indeed for some event on the news to deeply affect us all for years. But the guilty verdicts handed out to some home-grown extremists with a penchant for knocking airliners out of the sky with soft drink bombs has certainly caused angst to all of us many times.
Only a few weeks [...]

Tags: airline terror plot, al qaeda, terrorists