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...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 in six years, faces a possible new cataclysm. London Heathrow Airport came to a standstill, and one of aviation's most lucrative routes, between New York City and London, suddenly seems fraught with risk...
...Bank of 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...
Because their flight was so early in the morning, they had avoided the congestion and delays that would soon ensnarl Heathrow Airport. They'd also had little idea of what was actually going...
...Rhonda Biskup, who lives in the Baltimore suburbs, was one such passenger. She had arrived at Heathrow at 6 a.m. and found security officers patrolling the airport with machine guns. In addition to long lines, Biskup was twice subjected to full frisking. "No one knew what was going on, even employees," she said. "At London, they just told me it was all 'enhanced security procedures...
...first agent would return with more questions. Women traveling alone are said to get special attention because of the case of an unwitting Irish woman who in 1986 was wooed by a Jordanian terrorist who gave her a suitcase with a bomb sewn into it; El Al agents at Heathrow discovered it by questioning...