Free cavity probe anyone?

[speling bee]

They target planes because it just garners a lot of attention. If a train gets lost in Aberdeen for instance, nobody really cares or knows. A plane goes missing from Malaysia, gets attention for months.

More effective to poison a single tin of corned beef if Aberdeen is your target: 1964 Aberdeen typhoid outbreak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[fullyautomatix]

UK terror alert: body searches at British airports - Telegraph

This might be good news for MF - will save him a few quid at King Cross. Bad news for travellers.

Why don't the terrorists just bomb a train or ship? Or car bomb in central London? I should have been a terrorist - I am good at this stuff.

They target planes because it just garners a lot of attention. If a train gets lost in Aberdeen for instance, nobody really cares or knows. A plane goes missing from Malaysia, gets attention for months.

[d000hg]

Again, you'd need a big bomb I think. It would be far easier to mine the rails.

[The Spartan]

I suppose the issue is a bomb on a plane can easily bring the thing down, killing everyone. A train is pretty tough so a bomb in a carriage would probably kill far fewer unless it was a properly big bomb.

But the tube is always heaving and normally everyone has a bag, so seeing as there are no checks it would make it a lot easier.

[speling bee]

I suppose the issue is a bomb on a plane can easily bring the thing down, killing everyone. A train is pretty tough so a bomb in a carriage would probably kill far fewer unless it was a properly big bomb.

Could it be easily derailed to come off a bridge?

[d000hg]

I suppose the issue is a bomb on a plane can easily bring the thing down, killing everyone. A train is pretty tough so a bomb in a carriage would probably kill far fewer unless it was a properly big bomb.

[speling bee]

Why don't the terrorists just bomb a train or ship? Or car bomb in central London? I should have been a terrorist - I am good at this stuff.

When crossing the Stockport viaduct, I always used to wonder about that kind of thing.

[d000hg]

Wouldn't setting a bomb off in the queue to be security checked likely cause as many casualties as on the plane? In one of those long zig-zag queues you'd get total carnage.

In fact, it seems to me an airport would be a wonderful target for a bomb. There are loads of people and massive opportunities for disruption. Even a tiny bomb in an airport would close the whole airport.

Or a big bomb in a suitcase you check, set to go off in the airport i.e. before the bags get checked.

[original PM]

Pretty much as it is every Friday evening.

I always wondered if the only reason people can afford to live in London is because they spend so much time sat on the M25 that the only thing they have to spend money on is their mortgage.....

[The Spartan]

Pretty much as it is every Friday evening.

It has to be the worst road in the UK, I hating driving back to Wales on Friday from Welwyn Garden it used to take 4.5hrs

[NotAllThere]

Blow a hole in the M25, that's the country gridlocked.....

Pretty much as it is every Friday evening.

[The Spartan]

UK terror alert: body searches at British airports - Telegraph

This might be good news for MF - will save him a few quid at King Cross. Bad news for travellers.

Why don't the terrorists just bomb a train or ship? Or car bomb in central London? I should have been a terrorist - I am good at this stuff.

Behave Brillo I work down this way, mind you in saying that I saw a really strange guy on the tube last night (standard I know). He was taking pictures of Bank tube on his phone but in doing so he made sure he was out of the view of the CCTV that's down there which I found most odd. It's probable me just being paranoid but his behaviour didn't seem normal even by London standards.

[stek]

UK terror alert: body searches at British airports - Telegraph

This might be good news for MF - will save him a few quid at King Cross. Bad news for travellers.

Why don't the terrorists just bomb a train or ship? Or car bomb in central London? I should have been a terrorist - I am good at this stuff.

Blow a hole in the M25, that's the country gridlocked.....

[BrilloPad]

UK terror alert: body searches at British airports - Telegraph

This might be good news for MF - will save him a few quid at King Cross. Bad news for travellers.

Why don't the terrorists just bomb a train or ship? Or car bomb in central London? I should have been a terrorist - I am good at this stuff.