no flasks?

shit, i'm gonna start taking the train.

Great. Gf just left late last night. She's suppose to get back on Sat but I guess I should just brace myself for that not happening.

London Heathrow airport is now closed to all incoming flights that are not already in the air until further notice. Passengers due to travel today have been advised not to travel today unless absolutely necessary.

In addition, several airlines are cancelling flights, including British Airways, Lufthansa, Iberia, Air France and KLM until 3pm GMT today

As a result motorways leading to airports are experiencing delays.

All cabin baggage must be processed as hold baggage and carried in the hold of passenger aircraft departing UK airports.

Passengers may take through the airport security search point, in a single (ideally transparent) plastic carrier bag, only the following items. Nothing may be carried in pockets:

- pocketsize wallets and pocket size purses plus contents (for example money, credit cards, identity cards etc. (not handbags));
travel documents essential for the journey (for example passports and travel tickets);
- prescription medicines and medical items sufficient and essential for the flight (e.g. diabetic kit), except in liquid form unless verified as authentic.
- spectacles and sunglasses, without cases.
- contact lens holders, without bottles of solution.
- for those travelling with an infant: baby food, milk (the contents of each bottle must be tasted by the accompanying passenger) and sanitary items sufficient and essential for the flight (nappies, wipes, creams and nappy disposal bags).
- female sanitary items sufficient and essential for the flight, if unboxed (e.g. tampons, pads, towels and wipes).
tissues (unboxed) and/or handkerchiefs
keys (but no electrical key fobs)

All passengers must be hand searched, and their footwear and all the items they are carrying must be x-ray screened.

In addition to the above, all passengers boarding flights to the USA and all the items they are carrying, including those acquired after the central screening point, must be subjected to secondary search at the boarding gate. Any liquids discovered must be removed from the passenger.

if these are islamic terrorists, i say we just start nukin'.

enough already.

That approach would work with the specific countries but it would embiggen wackazoidal leaders of places like North Korea to do Very Bad Things, because they're crazy.

Also, the loss of subsequent support from all other Arab nations would be massive. We'd have to be prepared to be hated by several dozen more nations to a degree never seen. The Anti-American fomentation resultant would enable extremists to become leaders all over the planet.

So, short-term problem solved, long-term problem not at all solved.

i feel that anything involving terrorists is very much like peter and the wolf. i'll believe it when i see it.

No worries. It's an election year. Scare tactics work.

you people need to realize this shit is REAL. and to make comments like that is just foolish........

If not, let people in NYC worry about terror alerts. Somehow I just don't see how someone who lives in Kalamazoo would even care.

BBC News - Considerable detail has already been released and it's still the first day of the operation.
We have been told:

* Liquid explosives were planned to be hidden in soft drinks bottles (hence the ban on liquids).
* The explosives would be detonated over the atlantic (to ensure maximum fatalities).
* The attack would come in waves. As things start to clam down after the first wave, another wave was to be launched.
* The deah toll would be greather than 9/11.

According to US spokespeople:

* The investigation has been "critical" for about 2 weeks.

Compared to the vague information you hear from US alerts, this seems *much* more credible.

You may have missed your calling in life as a pre-9/11 intelligence agent.