Man flies to Pakistan using sister's passport

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1-04-2009 @ 7:22PM

tfarnon said...

I'm surprised that this happened at a UK airport at all. When I visited the UK in 2004, I noticed that security overall was far superior to anything our own Homeland Security does--they have a lot more experience and a lot more common sense regarding security in the UK. What with the CCTV in nearly all public places (and I have no objection to that--you are a fool to think that nobody is watching when you are OUT IN PUBLIC), the lack of trash receptacles in railway stations and other transit hubs (so that bombs can't be planted in them--it's amazing the 2005 bombing caused as much damage as it did, given the kleenex-box-sized trash receptacle the bomb had to be shoved into). the very visible police presence (police with the COOLEST automatic weapons I'd ever seen at Gatwick airport, police patrolling everywhere else I went), and the no-nonsense efficiency of security screeners at airports, I thought the UK had (still think so in spite of this incident) it all over US so-called security.

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