just rummage thru the trash bins at the airport.!
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LINTHICUM, Maryland (AP) -- -- Growing lines of irritated travelers
snaked through U.S. airport terminals Thursday as people waited hours
to reach security checkpoints, where they were ordered to dump all
liquids -- water bottles, suntan lotion, even toothpaste -- following
the discovery of a terror plot involving planes leaving Britain.
Guards armed with rifles stood at the security checkpoints in several
airports. Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said he would send the
National Guard to help patrol Boston's Logan Airport for the first time
since the Sept. 11 terror attacks, and New York Gov. George Pataki was
considering a similar move.
Security workers at Baltimore/Washington Airport opened every carry-on
bag that passed through one terminal, and all the flights there were
delayed.
"It's better alive than dead," said Bob Chambers, whose flight from
Baltimore to Detroit for business meeting was delayed more than an
hour. "It's inconvenient, but we'll make it."
The plot targeted flights from Britain to the U.S., particularly to New
York, Washington and California on United Airlines, American Airlines
and Continental Airlines Inc., a counterterrorism official said
Thursday, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity
of the situation.
U.S. authorities raised the threat level to "red" for flights from
Britain, the first time the highest threat of terrorist attack had been
invoked since the system was created. All other flights were under an
"orange" alert -- one step below red.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the plans were
"suggestive of an al Qaeda plot," referring to the terrorist group that
two planes from Boston on September 11, 2001, and flew them into the
World Trade Center towers in New York.
Lines were longer than usual at San Francisco International Airport,
and red plastic bins were quickly filling up with bottles of wine, cups
of coffee and water bottles now banned from carry-on luggage.
Kathy McMahon, 49, of Mill Valley, California, was frantically helping
her daughter stuff sunscreen, makeup, contact lens solution and other
liquids into every corner of her half-dozen suitcases to be checked as
she headed off to college.
"I think it's ridiculous," McMahon said. "But we'll do it anyway. What
are you going to do?"
At Kennedy Airport in New York, Sonia Gomes De Mesquita, 40, waited
nervously to board a British Airways flight home to London. Her family
had urged her not to fly.
"You wake up and what are you going to do?" she said. "The flight is
today."
She said she checked all her belongings rather than risk having
something confiscated. "I even checked in my book."
At Newark Airport in New Jersey, the security checkpoint line for
Terminal B, home to most international flights, stretched the entire
length of the terminal -- roughly six football fields -- and was barely
moving.
Andra Racibarskas, of Chatham, was trying to get to Michigan to pick up
her daughter from camp.
"Checking in was very easy. It took one minute curbside. It took one
minute to get my boarding pass," she said. "This line is at least four
hours long."
The security lines at Newark's Terminal C, where Continental bases its
flights at the airport, was even worse. The crush of people brought to
mind a chaotic rock concert.
"It's complete disaster and chaos," said Bill Federman, of Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma, who missed his Continental flight home because of the
lines.
The new ban on all liquids and gels from carry-on luggage left people
with little choice but throw away juice boxes, makeup and, for one
passenger, even a bottle of tequila. Baby formula and medicines were
exempt but had to be inspected.
Rather than packing toiletries in carry-ons, airport officials asked
passengers to put them in checked baggage, which is screened by
equipment that can detect explosives, said Phil Orlandella, spokesman
for Boston's Logan International Airport.
Chicago aviation commissioner Nuria Fernandez said the tighter
restriction will remain in place for at least 12 to 72 hours and
possibly longer.
At Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson airport, Brenda Lee was annoyed with
the lines and having to remove items from her luggage. The 52-year-old
commercial real estate appraiser from Snellville, Georgia, had to throw
away her shampoo, but she said she was keeping her contact lens
solution in her carry-on luggage.
"I'm not sure it does what they want it to do," she said. "It's all for
security, but some things go beyond security."
At one checkpoint in Pittsburgh's airport, small containers of whiskey
and scotch were tossed in among the toothpaste and makeup bottles.
Other travelers who heard about the ban in time left their forbidden
items behind.
Laura Yeager left four bottles of Gucci and Cartier perfume for the
hotel maid before heading to the Atlanta airport for her flight back to
Philadelphia. She still had to give up her lip gloss at the security
checkpoint.
She just shrugged and tossed it. "It's better to feel safe. We thought
it was going to be a lot worse."
At Boston's Logan Airport, Romney said additional screening stations
were being set up at the airline gates and security was being tightened
on the roads outside the airport. The exact number of guardsmen was
still being determined, but "it will certainly be in the hundreds," he
said.
New York Gov. George Pataki has offered state police and National Guard
units to bolster security at John F. Kennedy Airport and other
airports, but no decision to dispatch them had been made, a Pataki
spokesman said.
Extra police and dog units were sent out overnight at Dallas-Fort Worth
International Airport, where American Airlines is based, to patrol
terminals and parking garages, airport spokesman Ken Capps said.
American canceled three London-bound morning flights from Chicago,
Boston and New York to accommodate delays at London's Heathrow airport,
spokesman John Hotard said. To balance the cancellations, the airline
also dropped three afternoon or evening flights from London to U.S.
cities, Hotard said.
The remaining 13 flights in each direction were expected to run from 1
1/2 to 3 1/2 hours late. The cancellations were due to scheduling
delays and not because of direct threats to the flights, Hotard said.
Delta Air Lines spokesman Anthony Black said operations would continue
normally and there would be no flight cancellations. But Delta was
expecting delays on flights coming from the United Kingdom because of
heightened security there, Black said.
Homeland Security staff put up hastily printed signs at Dulles Airport
outside Washington warning passengers in red capital letters: "No
liquid or gels permitted beyond security."
The United Airlines terminal at San Francisco's airport was a scene of
growing unhappiness. Both the security and check-in lines had a number
of switchbacks and confused travelers pushed and elbowed each other.
Bill Poland, 61, of Ross, California, was headed to Lake George, New
York, with his wife and son. He held up a tube of lip balm and shouted
to a security officer who told him he couldn't bring it on the plane
with him. He said he recently had a cancerous growth removed from his
lip and the anti-bacterial ointment was necessary treatment.
"In an hour or two my lips are going to start burning and turning
purple. And I've got five to six hours on a plane without this," he
said. "This is not something I'm looking forward to."
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Could get messy if you manage to come across one
of the liquid explosives that one of the terrorists has
dumped in the bin so it cant be found on him when he
notices that they have worked out what he is up to.
cheerful@registerednurses.com wrote:
> just rummage thru the trash bins at the airport.!
> http://xs.to/xs.php?f .ap.jpg&h=xs204&d324
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/4779275.stm
> http://www.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/08/10/terror.passengers.ap/index.html
> LINTHICUM, Maryland (AP) -- -- Growing lines of irritated travelers
> snaked through U.S. airport terminals Thursday as people waited hours
> to reach security checkpoints, where they were ordered to dump all
> liquids -- water bottles, suntan lotion, even toothpaste -- following
> the discovery of a terror plot involving planes leaving Britain.
> Guards armed with rifles stood at the security checkpoints in several
> airports. Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said he would send the
> National Guard to help patrol Boston's Logan Airport for the first
> time since the Sept. 11 terror attacks, and New York Gov. George
> Pataki was considering a similar move.
> Security workers at Baltimore/Washington Airport opened every carry-on
> bag that passed through one terminal, and all the flights there were
> delayed.
> "It's better alive than dead," said Bob Chambers, whose flight from
> Baltimore to Detroit for business meeting was delayed more than an
> hour. "It's inconvenient, but we'll make it."
> The plot targeted flights from Britain to the U.S., particularly to
> New York, Washington and California on United Airlines, American
> Airlines and Continental Airlines Inc., a counterterrorism official
> said Thursday, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the
> sensitivity of the situation.
> U.S. authorities raised the threat level to "red" for flights from
> Britain, the first time the highest threat of terrorist attack had
> been invoked since the system was created. All other flights were
> under an "orange" alert -- one step below red.
> Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the plans were
> "suggestive of an al Qaeda plot," referring to the terrorist group
> that two planes from Boston on September 11, 2001, and flew them into
> the World Trade Center towers in New York.
> Lines were longer than usual at San Francisco International Airport,
> and red plastic bins were quickly filling up with bottles of wine,
> cups of coffee and water bottles now banned from carry-on luggage.
> Kathy McMahon, 49, of Mill Valley, California, was frantically helping
> her daughter stuff sunscreen, makeup, contact lens solution and other
> liquids into every corner of her half-dozen suitcases to be checked as
> she headed off to college.
> "I think it's ridiculous," McMahon said. "But we'll do it anyway. What
> are you going to do?"
> At Kennedy Airport in New York, Sonia Gomes De Mesquita, 40, waited
> nervously to board a British Airways flight home to London. Her family
> had urged her not to fly.
> "You wake up and what are you going to do?" she said. "The flight is
> today."
> She said she checked all her belongings rather than risk having
> something confiscated. "I even checked in my book."
> At Newark Airport in New Jersey, the security checkpoint line for
> Terminal B, home to most international flights, stretched the entire
> length of the terminal -- roughly six football fields -- and was
> barely moving.
> Andra Racibarskas, of Chatham, was trying to get to Michigan to pick
> up her daughter from camp.
> "Checking in was very easy. It took one minute curbside. It took one
> minute to get my boarding pass," she said. "This line is at least four
> hours long."
> The security lines at Newark's Terminal C, where Continental bases its
> flights at the airport, was even worse. The crush of people brought to
> mind a chaotic rock concert.
> "It's complete disaster and chaos," said Bill Federman, of Oklahoma
> City, Oklahoma, who missed his Continental flight home because of the
> lines.
> The new ban on all liquids and gels from carry-on luggage left people
> with little choice but throw away juice boxes, makeup and, for one
> passenger, even a bottle of tequila. Baby formula and medicines were
> exempt but had to be inspected.
> Rather than packing toiletries in carry-ons, airport officials asked
> passengers to put them in checked baggage, which is screened by
> equipment that can detect explosives, said Phil Orlandella, spokesman
> for Boston's Logan International Airport.
> Chicago aviation commissioner Nuria Fernandez said the tighter
> restriction will remain in place for at least 12 to 72 hours and
> possibly longer.
> At Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson airport, Brenda Lee was annoyed with
> the lines and having to remove items from her luggage. The 52-year-old
> commercial real estate appraiser from Snellville, Georgia, had to
> throw away her shampoo, but she said she was keeping her contact lens
> solution in her carry-on luggage.
> "I'm not sure it does what they want it to do," she said. "It's all
> for security, but some things go beyond security."
> At one checkpoint in Pittsburgh's airport, small containers of whiskey
> and scotch were tossed in among the toothpaste and makeup bottles.
> Other travelers who heard about the ban in time left their forbidden
> items behind.
> Laura Yeager left four bottles of Gucci and Cartier perfume for the
> hotel maid before heading to the Atlanta airport for her flight back
> to Philadelphia. She still had to give up her lip gloss at the
> security checkpoint.
> She just shrugged and tossed it. "It's better to feel safe. We thought
> it was going to be a lot worse."
> At Boston's Logan Airport, Romney said additional screening stations
> were being set up at the airline gates and security was being
> tightened on the roads outside the airport. The exact number of
> guardsmen was still being determined, but "it will certainly be in
> the hundreds," he said.
> New York Gov. George Pataki has offered state police and National
> Guard units to bolster security at John F. Kennedy Airport and other
> airports, but no decision to dispatch them had been made, a Pataki
> spokesman said.
> Extra police and dog units were sent out overnight at Dallas-Fort
> Worth International Airport, where American Airlines is based, to
> patrol terminals and parking garages, airport spokesman Ken Capps
> said.
> American canceled three London-bound morning flights from Chicago,
> Boston and New York to accommodate delays at London's Heathrow
> airport, spokesman John Hotard said. To balance the cancellations,
> the airline also dropped three afternoon or evening flights from
> London to U.S. cities, Hotard said.
> The remaining 13 flights in each direction were expected to run from 1
> 1/2 to 3 1/2 hours late. The cancellations were due to scheduling
> delays and not because of direct threats to the flights, Hotard said.
> Delta Air Lines spokesman Anthony Black said operations would continue
> normally and there would be no flight cancellations. But Delta was
> expecting delays on flights coming from the United Kingdom because of
> heightened security there, Black said.
> Homeland Security staff put up hastily printed signs at Dulles Airport
> outside Washington warning passengers in red capital letters: "No
> liquid or gels permitted beyond security."
> The United Airlines terminal at San Francisco's airport was a scene of
> growing unhappiness. Both the security and check-in lines had a number
> of switchbacks and confused travelers pushed and elbowed each other.
> Bill Poland, 61, of Ross, California, was headed to Lake George, New
> York, with his wife and son. He held up a tube of lip balm and shouted
> to a security officer who told him he couldn't bring it on the plane
> with him. He said he recently had a cancerous growth removed from his
> lip and the anti-bacterial ointment was necessary treatment.
> "In an hour or two my lips are going to start burning and turning
> purple. And I've got five to six hours on a plane without this," he
> said. "This is not something I'm looking forward to."
> Copyright
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> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/4779275.stm
> http://www.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/08/10/terror.passengers.ap/index.html
> LINTHICUM, Maryland (AP) -- -- Growing lines of irritated travelers
> snaked through U.S. airport terminals Thursday as people waited hours
> to reach security checkpoints, where they were ordered to dump all
> liquids -- water bottles, suntan lotion, even toothpaste -- following
> the discovery of a terror plot involving planes leaving Britain.
> Guards armed with rifles stood at the security checkpoints in several
> airports. Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said he would send the
> National Guard to help patrol Boston's Logan Airport for the first
> time since the Sept. 11 terror attacks, and New York Gov. George
> Pataki was considering a similar move.
> Security workers at Baltimore/Washington Airport opened every carry-on
> bag that passed through one terminal, and all the flights there were
> delayed.
> "It's better alive than dead," said Bob Chambers, whose flight from
> Baltimore to Detroit for business meeting was delayed more than an
> hour. "It's inconvenient, but we'll make it."
> The plot targeted flights from Britain to the U.S., particularly to
> New York, Washington and California on United Airlines, American
> Airlines and Continental Airlines Inc., a counterterrorism official
> said Thursday, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the
> sensitivity of the situation.
> U.S. authorities raised the threat level to "red" for flights from
> Britain, the first time the highest threat of terrorist attack had
> been invoked since the system was created. All other flights were
> under an "orange" alert -- one step below red.
> Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the plans were
> "suggestive of an al Qaeda plot," referring to the terrorist group
> that two planes from Boston on September 11, 2001, and flew them into
> the World Trade Center towers in New York.
> Lines were longer than usual at San Francisco International Airport,
> and red plastic bins were quickly filling up with bottles of wine,
> cups of coffee and water bottles now banned from carry-on luggage.
> Kathy McMahon, 49, of Mill Valley, California, was frantically helping
> her daughter stuff sunscreen, makeup, contact lens solution and other
> liquids into every corner of her half-dozen suitcases to be checked as
> she headed off to college.
> "I think it's ridiculous," McMahon said. "But we'll do it anyway. What
> are you going to do?"
> At Kennedy Airport in New York, Sonia Gomes De Mesquita, 40, waited
> nervously to board a British Airways flight home to London. Her family
> had urged her not to fly.
> "You wake up and what are you going to do?" she said. "The flight is
> today."
> She said she checked all her belongings rather than risk having
> something confiscated. "I even checked in my book."
> At Newark Airport in New Jersey, the security checkpoint line for
> Terminal B, home to most international flights, stretched the entire
> length of the terminal -- roughly six football fields -- and was
> barely moving.
> Andra Racibarskas, of Chatham, was trying to get to Michigan to pick
> up her daughter from camp.
> "Checking in was very easy. It took one minute curbside. It took one
> minute to get my boarding pass," she said. "This line is at least four
> hours long."
> The security lines at Newark's Terminal C, where Continental bases its
> flights at the airport, was even worse. The crush of people brought to
> mind a chaotic rock concert.
> "It's complete disaster and chaos," said Bill Federman, of Oklahoma
> City, Oklahoma, who missed his Continental flight home because of the
> lines.
> The new ban on all liquids and gels from carry-on luggage left people
> with little choice but throw away juice boxes, makeup and, for one
> passenger, even a bottle of tequila. Baby formula and medicines were
> exempt but had to be inspected.
> Rather than packing toiletries in carry-ons, airport officials asked
> passengers to put them in checked baggage, which is screened by
> equipment that can detect explosives, said Phil Orlandella, spokesman
> for Boston's Logan International Airport.
> Chicago aviation commissioner Nuria Fernandez said the tighter
> restriction will remain in place for at least 12 to 72 hours and
> possibly longer.
> At Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson airport, Brenda Lee was annoyed with
> the lines and having to remove items from her luggage. The 52-year-old
> commercial real estate appraiser from Snellville, Georgia, had to
> throw away her shampoo, but she said she was keeping her contact lens
> solution in her carry-on luggage.
> "I'm not sure it does what they want it to do," she said. "It's all
> for security, but some things go beyond security."
> At one checkpoint in Pittsburgh's airport, small containers of whiskey
> and scotch were tossed in among the toothpaste and makeup bottles.
> Other travelers who heard about the ban in time left their forbidden
> items behind.
> Laura Yeager left four bottles of Gucci and Cartier perfume for the
> hotel maid before heading to the Atlanta airport for her flight back
> to Philadelphia. She still had to give up her lip gloss at the
> security checkpoint.
> She just shrugged and tossed it. "It's better to feel safe. We thought
> it was going to be a lot worse."
> At Boston's Logan Airport, Romney said additional screening stations
> were being set up at the airline gates and security was being
> tightened on the roads outside the airport. The exact number of
> guardsmen was still being determined, but "it will certainly be in
> the hundreds," he said.
> New York Gov. George Pataki has offered state police and National
> Guard units to bolster security at John F. Kennedy Airport and other
> airports, but no decision to dispatch them had been made, a Pataki
> spokesman said.
> Extra police and dog units were sent out overnight at Dallas-Fort
> Worth International Airport, where American Airlines is based, to
> patrol terminals and parking garages, airport spokesman Ken Capps
> said.
> American canceled three London-bound morning flights from Chicago,
> Boston and New York to accommodate delays at London's Heathrow
> airport, spokesman John Hotard said. To balance the cancellations,
> the airline also dropped three afternoon or evening flights from
> London to U.S. cities, Hotard said.
> The remaining 13 flights in each direction were expected to run from 1
> 1/2 to 3 1/2 hours late. The cancellations were due to scheduling
> delays and not because of direct threats to the flights, Hotard said.
> Delta Air Lines spokesman Anthony Black said operations would continue
> normally and there would be no flight cancellations. But Delta was
> expecting delays on flights coming from the United Kingdom because of
> heightened security there, Black said.
> Homeland Security staff put up hastily printed signs at Dulles Airport
> outside Washington warning passengers in red capital letters: "No
> liquid or gels permitted beyond security."
> The United Airlines terminal at San Francisco's airport was a scene of
> growing unhappiness. Both the security and check-in lines had a number
> of switchbacks and confused travelers pushed and elbowed each other.
> Bill Poland, 61, of Ross, California, was headed to Lake George, New
> York, with his wife and son. He held up a tube of lip balm and shouted
> to a security officer who told him he couldn't bring it on the plane
> with him. He said he recently had a cancerous growth removed from his
> lip and the anti-bacterial ointment was necessary treatment.
> "In an hour or two my lips are going to start burning and turning
> purple. And I've got five to six hours on a plane without this," he
> said. "This is not something I'm looking forward to."
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