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...have been banned from hand luggage on flights in the U.S. and elsewhere. And passengers flying between the U.K. and the U.S. were for several days all searched by hand and barred from bringing anything on board with them other than a select few items in a clear plastic bag. The British Home Secretary, John Reid, urged other European countries at a meeting in London Wednesday to work together to coordinate tighter security. "It's very important that the measures that are taken in one country are reflected in other countries because we want equal security for all our countries...
...Some of the initial draconian restrictions have now been relaxed, and small carry-on bags are once again being allowed on transatlantic flights. But the new rules permit only carry-on bags that are about half the size of those permitted before last week: no bigger than 45 cm. by 35 cm. by 16 cm. (17.5 in. by 13.5 in. by 6 in.),about the size of a computer bag. In Britain, government officials are considering whether to make this rule permanent...
...with liquid explosives packed in carry-on baggage. Terrorists, like movie studios and toddlers, don't like to try new things. In 1987 two North Korean agents posing as father and daughter put a radio packed with plastic explosives and a whisky bottle full of liquid explosives in a bag in the overhead bin of a South Korean airliner. Then they got off on a layover. The subsequent explosion sent the plane spinning into the jungle near the Thailand-Burma border, killing all 115 people onboard...
...tries to improve its fragmented intelligence capabilities, the second best defense might be vigilance. Most terrorists make mistakes, just as other criminals do. Mohammed told CIA interrogators that he had inadvertently packed a copy of the Bojinka plan with all the targeted flights and explosion times in his bag on the Philippine Airlines test run. Nobody noticed. Today someone might--just as a flight attendant noticed Richard Reid trying to light his shoe in a failed attempt to blow up a transatlantic plane. "We're lucky the people we're up against are so incompetent," says Larry Johnson, a former...