[Doug]

Originally Posted by Gayle

What puzzles me is that the security forces knew it was going to be an attack on planes. I mean surely these people all had to arrive at the airport by some form of transport yet the security forces were waiting at the airport to get them. How did they know, with all certainty, that they weren't going to set the bombs off on the M25 or the train on the way?

This means that security forces either had an inside man or that the bombers are giving them information. Doesn't this worry people that the two sides are co-operating in some way?

Gayle I think you have to accept that the current level of information is patchy and inconsistent. But really and this may pee people off, the security forces will have had firm intelligence of a change that cause this action to be taken. Stopping people at the airport was intended to stop unidentified individuals and copycat terrorist from carrying out their intentions after it became know the police had acted.

What is regretful is t you can not seal off the country and prevent the movements of a nation. If someone ignited a device on the motorway it may have killed a dozen people, in the air it might kill 3 or 4 hundred and untold number on the ground if a device was ignited over a major population centre. It’s a calculated risk the security services would take. I’m sorry if this is an unpopular statement.