Terror Plot Foiled

Scuzi · 10 Aug 2006 at 14:45

reflex said:
Any guesses at the ethnic backgrounds of the 16 (or w/e) men/females arrested

According to the news they were all British Muslims, at least some of whom were of Pakistani origin.

reflex · 10 Aug 2006 at 14:46

Ahh right...I thought it could have been them Egyption students that didnt turn up to University in America

Sleepy · 10 Aug 2006 at 14:46

reflex said:
Any guesses at the ethnic backgrounds of the 16 (or w/e) men/females arrested:

British born of asian origin but this is not confirmed, is based on news coverage

Sleepy · 10 Aug 2006 at 14:47

reflex said:
Ahh right...I thought it could have been them Egyption students that didnt turn up to University in America

One's been recaptured the rest are behing hunted by the FBI who of course normally chase after 'harmless visa violators'

reflex · 10 Aug 2006 at 14:48

Sleepy said:
One's been recaptured the rest are behing hunted by the FBI who of course normally chase after 'harmless visa violators'

Cheers for clearing that up, i caught it on the news the other night but was drunk so i didnt take it in fully..

cleanbluesky · 10 Aug 2006 at 14:49

Scuzi said:
According to the news they were all British Muslims, at least some of whom were of Pakistani origin.

Muslims? Didn't see that coming!

Be still my shaking ribs.

el_dazza · 10 Aug 2006 at 14:49

Scuzi said:
According to the news they were all British Muslims, at least some of whom were of Pakistani origin.

No way.. i'd have never thought this the second it was announced!
/sarcasm

Glad it was foiled before it got anywhere, looks like its going to cause pandemonium across european airports

El Gringo · 10 Aug 2006 at 14:52

So can someone tell me if check-in baggage is scanned at all or not? What secuity measures are taken after they go off on the conveyor?

PaulStat · 10 Aug 2006 at 14:53

El Gringo said:
So can someone tell me if check-in baggage is scanned at all or not? What secuity measures are taken after they go off on the conveyor?

i'm sure they must be scanned, some are even opened up and checked, get a nice big sticker on the side when they do that

bottletop · 10 Aug 2006 at 14:54

It may seem racist (it's meant to be practical) but I can't understand why the powers that be didn't ban all people of "indian" appearance and all people with muslim names from flying for a few days.

There would have been virtually no delays, only a small section of travellers would have been inconvenienced instead of everybody, and innocent muslim travelers would hopefully have realised that these problems stem from within their section of the community and it would be in their best interests to assist in stopping this sort of radicalism in future

Nexus · 10 Aug 2006 at 14:55

El Gringo said:
So can someone tell me if check-in baggage is scanned at all or not? What secuity measures are taken after they go off on the conveyor?

Yes, they are.

Funnily enough I was watching some airline programme yesterday and they had just built a new terminal and checkin. They were showing how they tested the automatic machines which are on the carousels which check the checked-in bags. They had some bags filled with banned items to test whether it was !00% accurate at picking them out. If one has a banned item, and alarm goes off.

reflex · 10 Aug 2006 at 14:55

bottletop said:
It may seem racist (it's meant to be practical) but I can't understand why the powers that be didn't ban all people of "indian" appearance and all people with muslim names from flying for a few days.

There would have been virtually no delays, only a small section of travellers would have been inconvenienced instead of everybody, and innocent muslim travelers would hopefully have realised that these problems stem from within their section of the community and it would be in their best interests to assist in stopping this sort of radicalism in future

r u serious???????? :confused:

Scuzi · 10 Aug 2006 at 14:57

bottletop said:
It may seem racist (it's meant to be practical) but I can't understand why the powers that be didn't ban all people of "indian" appearance and all people with muslim names from flying for a few days.

There would have been virtually no delays, only a small section of travellers would have been inconvenienced instead of everybody, and innocent muslim travelers would hopefully have realised that these problems stem from within their section of the community and it would be in their best interests to assist in stopping this sort of radicalism in future

It's not that simple. There are extremist muslims who are native English, African, Oriental, Indian and so on. There is also the fact that it would cause major uproar amongst the banned passengers who would undoubtedly play the racism card.

bottletop · 10 Aug 2006 at 14:57

reflex said:
r u serious????????

absolutely.
If that course of action was followed how many planes would be sitting on the ground right now?

Only 5 or 10 passengers in 100 wouldn't be flying right now instead of 100/100

cleanbluesky · 10 Aug 2006 at 14:59

bottletop said:
It may seem racist (it's meant to be practical) but I can't understand why the powers that be didn't ban all people of "indian" appearance and all people with muslim names from flying for a few days.

Wouldn't work, there is only one thing that seems to qualify these people and its not name or skin colour...

Might stop a few of them though...

reflex · 10 Aug 2006 at 15:00

Well i thought England were above enforcing nazi style regimes on airports, but hey why not :rolleyes:

bottletop · 10 Aug 2006 at 15:01

nothing to do with nazi style regimes - just a pratical solution for keeping planes flyig to an immediate and dangerous situation. Peoples hurt feelings can be soothed over when the threat has passed

cleanbluesky · 10 Aug 2006 at 15:03

reflex said:
Well i thought England were above enforcing nazi style regimes on airports, but hey why not

I see you are taken with that quote...

MookJong · 10 Aug 2006 at 15:03

bottletop said:
It may seem racist (it's meant to be practical) but I can't understand why the powers that be didn't ban all people of "indian" appearance and all people with muslim names from flying for a few days.

Apart from being a crazy idea, what makes you think all Muslim extremists look Indian or would use a muslim name.

Borris · 10 Aug 2006 at 15:05

bottletop said:
It may seem racist (it's meant to be practical) but I can't understand why the powers that be didn't ban all people of "indian" appearance and all people with muslim names from flying for a few days.

Do you have a particular colour chart in mind?

bottletop said:
There would have been virtually no delays, only a small section of travellers would have been inconvenienced instead of everybody, and innocent muslim travelers would hopefully have realised that these problems stem from within their section of the community and it would be in their best interests to assist in stopping this sort of radicalism in future

I wonder what the actual proportion would be - Perhaps the watershed shade on your colour chart could be defined with this in mind?