I just missed the airport scare in Heathrow by 24 hours, it is bad enough without any terror threat so I am not envious of the people who had to put up with the extra security. It is quite surreal watching the whole thing on the telly and on the web when you have recently passed by police with big machine guns. I remember being in Changi airport in Singapore after the 11th of September the army and police were patrolling also armed to the teeth with guns that were bigger than themselves, I couldn’t help thinking that guns are no good against suicide bombers especially automatic machine guns that spray out a shit load of bullets, all you have is a bloodbath and a load of dead passengers. What you want is a sniper or several snipers positioned around the place and a load of cameras and a control room with people who know who they are looking for, easy really and you don’t scare the living shite out of people with all these heavily armed police.
Another thing that any traveler familiar with European airport security is that if you don’t look like a terrorist you are generally going to have an easy time at security. Anyone who looks like they come from any Arab or Asian country usually gets a pretty hard time especially Frankfurt even if you speak German it doesn’t matter if you look Asian you are going to have problems. So when are the security guards going to cop on? The drug/arms smugglers are in first class and they look like wealthy europeans, and they never get any hassle. So the other day in Heathrow you had hordes of the willing with their plastic bags with tickets and wallets, do you think that any terrorist was going to chance his luck? not likely.
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