"Terror in the Skies, Again?"

[Jim Dixon]

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, ken wrote:

> > Sounds to me like Al-Qaeda is just getting the most mileage they can out
> > of their little PR Event a couple of years ago. They don't even need to
> > blow up anything to get the most bang for their buck.
> >
> > Hell, in this story the biggest threat was the incompetence of the airline.
>
> Assuming its true (*) the one security breach is the action of the
>   cabin crew member who tried to reassure this woman by going on
> about air marshalls.   That security breach should certainly get
> them sacked, and probably interrogated by the men in cheap suits.
>
> Or does she assume that apparently nervous middle-aged
> middle-class white women can't be bombers?
>
>
> (*)  (which it might be, US print journalistic standards are
> higher than our British ones - if I read this in a UK paper like
> the Dally Mail or the Sun I'd assume it was some rambling racist
> fantasy put ion as political propaganda - on the other hand our
> broadcast journalism is mostly better than yours, so there)

The article was reprinted in the News Review section of yesterday's
Sunday Times (which Americans seem to prefer calling "the London
Times").

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