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BARBADOS (TimesOnline) Aug. 8 — TONY BLAIR left belatedly for his Caribbean holiday, voicing hope that the United Nations will approve a resolution on Lebanon but preparing to spend much of his time off on the telephone.
Mr Blair set off to join his family in Barbados saying that he was still very much in charge.
WASHINGTON (LA Times) Aug. 10 — The U.S. government raised its threat warning to the highest level for commercial flights from Britain to the United States in response to a reported terror plot in London and also stepped up the general level for all flights within the U.S. or entering the country.
“We believe that these arrests (in London) have significantly disrupted the threat, but we cannot be sure that the threat has been entirely eliminated or the plot completely thwarted,” said Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff in announcing that the threat level for flights from Britain to the United States has been raised to the highest “severe or red” level.
Times Online – UK Police Foil Air Bomb Plot
BBC News – ‘Plot to blow up planes’ foiled
[Interesting! BBC News places headline between quotation marks! – Oui]
CHAOS at all British airports: no hand luggage permitted – mothers are told to drink baby’s formula to illustrate toxicity.
All airports have been put under the restrictions
LONDON (The Scotsman) Aug. 3 —
● Prime Minister claims UN days away from resolution- challenged by France
● Blair refuses to ban US planes transporting weapons to Israel via Britain
● Blair denies Britain’s stance on Middle East will fuel extremism
- “I don’t doubt that there are people who disagree within the system and I have no doubt there are Cabinet ministers who have doubts about this or that aspect – possibly about the whole aspect of the policy”
– Tony Blair
● Britain’s Home-grown Terrorists
● MI-5: 400,000 in the U.K. are ‘sympathetic to violent jihad’
● UK Faces Terror Risk Because of US Alliance ¶ Chatham House Report ◊ by Oui
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."
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