Army tanks at Heathrow!!!

[matt66]

Is this one for real or a smokescreen as before. Wonder how many people will be charged and convicted after this latest drama.

[smithers]

18 at least.

[matt66]

18 arrested....that means nothing........

[Lore]

They're now saying 20 have been arrested, I know the amount of disruption is going to be enormous to those wishing to either leave or enter the country but if they don't go through these security measures the first thing the general public would do is say.. 'why wan't something done?' It's a no win situation! Thy're wrong for taking security measures, they're wrong for letting disasters happen.

[smithers]

me thinks this is a tad more serious. Heathrow has now been closed to all incoming flights that are not already in the air.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4778575.stm

[Touareg-8]

Well there you go, all those arrested are british muslim and isnt it funny that tony blairs on holiday

[ugly_bob]

smokescreen as before? what sre you referring to matt?

[Grunty]

One of our duties for living in a democracy is to question what the authorities are doing. In this case though, it is clear that they are reacting properly to what they perceive as a serious threat. I think in this case the smokescreen is a conspiracy theory without a theory.

[Zen]

Between 11 September 2001 and 31 December 2004, were 701 arrests in the UK under the Terrorism Act.

But only 119 of these had faced charges under this legislation, with 45 of them also being charged for other offences.

A further 135 people were charged under

other legislation - including terrorist offences covered in other criminal law, such as the use of explosives.

Only 17 have been convicted of offences under the Act

[baremission]

thank god for the police, its at times like these that im proud of living in a country with such a good police force and the whole inside intelligence thing.