I completely understand the "no liquids" rule. I am actually surprised it wasn't like that before - liquid explosives have been around for a while. Buy your water after the security point, please. It's probably also good to be more safe than sorry today and in the next days - if they did not catch
all of the bad guys, the one/two/three who are left over might just go ahead anyways.
I however question the wisdom of "no handluggage at all". Books, pencils, cell phones, newspaper, toys,
what do they have to do with the actual threat/plot?
As for flightcrew, I am all for special treatment. These airports really need to get extra security points for all of you, with personal trained to know the difference between a flight manual and a bomb manual.
Lastly, let's see the good thing here: Police was able to interupt a major murder plot. Congratulations to them
