Mick
Thanks for your reply.
Personally, that's enough for me.
I accept that they had a 'viable means' and so it was a proper plot. (me do u-turn)
Well done for stopping them to all concerned.
What really gets my goat though is our reactionary, bolting the stable door, approach to these things.
We are losing!
The terrs do 9/11- we ban all sharps. Too late.
They 'terrs' do liquid plot. We ban liquids.
The terrs do a shoe bomb. We start looking at shoes....
Get my drift?
Surely profiling would be a good place to start (not least because, if there is any justice, crew will do well here).
For example, say the next plot is simply a large cohort of unarmed but seriously determined guys? Believe me about thirty tough guys could do 9/11 again on their own. (30 to a plane that is) providing the pax did not outnumber them by too much.
What are we going to ban after an attack like that? Passengers??
I could think of a few other examples too, but better to keep schtum.
