It's been a busy weekend, but I've grabbed some WoT pieces that struck me as interesting. I'm trying to do catch up and not getting anything really finished, so I'll just throw these out there:
* Michael O'Leary, the outspoken chief executive of British ‘no-frills’ carrier Ryanair, described the new security restrictions as "farcical Keystone Cops security measures that don't add anything except to block up airports".
He also threatened to sue the government for compensation unless airport security measures are returned to normal within seven days. Ryanair threat to sue government
* BAE Systems today received a substantial boost when the government announced the agreement of a £10bn deal to sell Eurofighter aircraft to Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia is buying 72 Eurofighters to replace its Tornado aircraft. The deal is a coup for the consortium consisting of BAE, the Franco-German aerospace group EADS and Finmeccanica, of Italy. BAE buoyed by £10bn Eurofighter deal
* A Pakistani woman whose daughter's carry-on luggage caused an airport to shut down for more than nine hours says it was her ethnic background, not a few bottles of suspicious liquids, that set off security officials.
Initial laboratory testing by the FBI turned up no evidence of explosive materials in the bottles carried at Tri-State Airport in West Virginia by Rima Qayyum, a 28-year-old Pakistani woman dressed in the traditional Islamic headcover. Airport terror scare shutdown 'was racist'
* THE airline suicide-bomb plot was ordered at the highest level by Al Qaeda, it was claimed last night.
Terror chief Osama Bin Laden’s deputy, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, "probably" cleared the attack which was allegedly planned by British Muslim Rashid Rauf. Jet bombs plot was ordered by Al Qaeda chief
* A bomb threat scrawled on a sick bag caused a British passenger plane from London to Egypt to be diverted to southern Italy on Friday, but police said it appeared to be a false alarm. Note on sick bag sparks bomb scare on plane
* Making more friends?
One of China's most senior diplomats has made an extraordinary attack on America, saying that it should "shut up" about China's growing military capacity when America dominates global military spending.
Sha Zukang, China's ambassador to the UN in Geneva, launched his diatribe in an interview with the BBC yesterday during a progamme about China's booming economy and military strength. Shut up, Chinese diplomat tells US
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Today Democracy Now interviewed an Iraqi who wasn't allowed to board a plane at JFK airport because of text on his t-shirt, which read "We will not be silent" in both English and Arabic. He was told it was like "going to a bank with a T-Shirt reading 'I am a robber.'" So much for free speech.
So rights are just steadily stripped, and good citizens think it's only against the supposed enemy.
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