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...government security sources, is that the terrorists timed their plot to mark that transition. Brown and Smith were surely busy; soon after the first car bomb was discovered, a second was found in London and the next day, shaky footage of a Jeep in flames plowing into a Glasgow Airport terminal recurred on television newscasts like a bad dream...
...thought it would be the mayor, not people like us." The next thing Franziska knew, Noack was asking if she would like to have dinner in Spain. A car picked the couple up at 8 a.m. on July 2, and drove them to the airport for their flight to Spain. By 7.30 p.m., they were seated on the patio at El Bulli, enjoying those hot-and-cold gin fizzes. They returned to Kassel the next morning...
...pile of nails outside the Tiger Tiger nightclub in London. About the same time, parking authorities discovered a blue Mercedes containing a similar cocktail of matériel. The very next day, a green Jeep Cherokee filled with gas cylinders and fuel blasted through the check-in entrance of Glasgow Airport in Scotland, bursting into flames...
...gadgetry alone is inadequate. In June 2006, Glasgow Airport installed a high-tech license-plate-recognition system that would be the envy of many U.S. airports. The system activates a barrier at the entrance to the inside lane around the airport. Only taxis and buses with registered numbers are allowed through. When the men in the green Jeep pulled up, however, they simply tailgated behind a registered car and sped past before the barrier closed...
...JetBlue airplanes sat on the tarmac at New York's JFK Airport for more than nine hours. That incident came less than two months after over a hundred American Airlines and American Eagle planes sat on tarmacs throughout the South for up to 10 hours. Uproar by angry passengers ensued and lawmakers threatened legislation to prevent further "tarmac strandings...