From today's TIMES:
John Reid, the Home Secretary, said after the meeting that he wanted greater uniformity in security measures taken at airports throughout the EU and said that discussions next week would look at extending the new measures in operation at British airports to those throughout the EU. He emphasised the importance of adopting measures across Europe so that “we don’t have a position where terrorists feel if it is difficult to get through security checks in London, they might be able to go to Paris or Frankfurt or Berlin”.
A Home Office spokeswoman said that extending British-style security measures to EU airports had been discussed during the meeting and would be on the agenda at the meeting of transport ministers next week, which would focus on aviation security.
Signor Frattini said that they were also looking at the “positive profiling” of passengers, carried out well in advance of their flights, based on biometric identifiers, such as iris scans or fingerprints. It would mean that immigration officials would be able to check that a person arriving in Britain with a passport containing a visa is the same person who applied for the visa.
He and Mr Reid emphasised, however, that there was no plan for profiling based on passengers’ ethnic origins.
So the bona-fide innocent traveller will be penalised, while any wild-eyed preacher of hate will be waved through security.... looks like the terrorists have won
PS: link to full article here:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...316665,00.html