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...explanation for growing disaffection. "One minute the British government is not letting you take iPods on a plane in case you detonate a bomb," says Beena Faridi, of Britain's Islamic Human Rights Commission. "But at the same time they're letting America fly bombs to and from Prestwick Airport [in Scotland] so that the Israelis can collectively punish Lebanon for the kidnap of these two soldiers. It seems that the government has a double standard in its value of life, and that's just going to fuel the isolation of the Muslim community." Says Faridi: "Everything is building...
...Thursday, after the suspects had been arrested, the FBI and DHS sent an internal memo to state and local law-enforcement agencies warning that peroxide-based explosives could be used in an attack. But the memo could offer only so much guidance. No one could tell airport searchers exactly what to look for. Even if they knew, they wouldn't have the tools to find it. So post-9/11 airport supplications reached a new low, as throngs of passengers handed over their deodorant, hair gel and bottled water. The airline industry, which had just reported its best quarterly profits...
Regular people are often more comfortable assessing risk than officialdom expects. They may not be perfect at it, but they do it every day. Nancy Bort of Arlington, Va., landed at Washington's Dulles International Airport on the first flight from London Heathrow after the arrests. The plane arrived nearly two hours late, and the passengers emerged clutching plastic bags for their passports and not much else. But Bort was unfazed. "I still think I have a greater chance of being hurt in a car accident than getting killed by a terrorist," she said...
...England list reveals that the suspects were of a diverse age-range - 17 to 35 - and social class background: drawn mostly from in and around London, their home neighborhoods ranged from leafy suburbs to inner city slums. Their professions included students, entrepreneurs, and perhaps most chilling, a Heathrow Airport security official. And their family circumstances ranged from single to newlyweds and new fathers...
...details on both the plot and the arrested suspects trickle out, the country remains still at the "critical" threat level. Airport services are slowly returning to normal - though restrictions on hand luggage remain in place - and the government is trying to get back to business as usual under a storm of public criticism. With Prime Minister Tony Blair still vacationing in the Caribbean, Britons are looking to Home Secretary John Reid for answers, which he tends to give only elliptically for fear, he says, of compromising the ongoing investigation...