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anotheoldgit | 15:11 Wed 20th Jan 2010 | News
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Just because one recent terrorist came from Yemen, should the government ban direct flights from Yemen to Britain?

Taking this action should we now also ban flights from Pakistan or Morocco for instance?
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the usual over-reaction. One man does something, let's ban the whole country.

You might conclude from this that Yemen doesn't have much oil.
The Nigerian in the last airline terrorist case travelled via Amsterdam (reportedly on an Italian passport!). Banning direct flights from anywhere doesn't stop terrorists travelling indirectly.It may hinder, though why any terrorist would wish to be so obviously from a place known for terrorists is not clear, but not prevent a terrorist.
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Can one see the reasoning when there been cutbacks in counter-terrorism programmes in Pakistan?

http://www.timesonlin...cs/article6996280.ece
I'm glad the US did not ban flights following from Richard Reid, the shoe bomber and further back the Lockerbie disaster.

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