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54anickel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-19-04 01:54 PM
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Heathrow Anti-Terror Plans 'Found at Petrol Station'
Sheesh, it seems like the world's security is in the hands of the Keystone Cops these days. Are they purposely being idiots? You can't make this stuff up!

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3226023


A top-level police investigation was under way tonight after a secret dossier containing counter-terror plans for Heathrow Airport was found lying abandoned in a road.

Home Secretary David Blunkett described the disappearance of the papers, which were found near a petrol station close to the airport’s perimeter fence, as “very bad“.

The document, which Mr Blunkett said was genuine, was discovered by a motorist “flapping at the roadside” and handed to The Sun newspaper.

It reportedly showed 62 sites at the airport where al Qaida was most likely to launch anti-aircraft missile strikes and included key facts about escape routes, evacuation plans and road closures.

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geek tragedy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-19-04 01:55 PM
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1. Wow, even dumber than Tom Ridge's clowns.
What next, a BBC special on how to make ricin and anthrax?
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54anickel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-19-04 03:53 PM
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6. Brings to meaning to the "We are safer now" mantra, don't it? n/t
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bluedeminredstate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-19-04 02:06 PM
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2. What next?
Bush leaves the nuclear codes at the Crawford lunch counter?
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Massacure Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-19-04 02:21 PM
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5. Bush has already forgotten his "Football"
I believe he forgot it at the Vatican when he visited the Pope.
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JayS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-19-04 02:08 PM
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3. Reminds me of one Civil War battle where the officer rolled his...
...cigars up in the battle plans...and then dropped both.
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The_Casual_Observer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-19-04 02:21 PM
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4.  a secret dossier
The british love these dossiers. They are so full of shit.
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