Monday, January 25, 2010

"Unusually high" number of people on their no-fly list trying to board US-bound planes

Looks like Bin Laden was serious about his threat of more attacks to come. Mirror

Two men were stopped boarding US-bound planes at Heathrow days before Britain's terror threat was raised to "severe".[...]

Security sources say an Egyptian was stopped last Saturday as he tried to board an American Airlines flight to Miami. A man from Saudi Arabia was banned from boarding a United Airlines flight to Chicago the next day and sent back to Saudi.[...]

Anti-terror officials said the past week had seen an "unusually high" number of people on their no-fly list trying to board US-bound planes.

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