This morning, at around 7am, we received a call from a friend at Dulles Airport checking-in for his BA flight to London. What is going on? he wanted to know. There was pandemonium, rumors, and he had to turn in all his shaving cream, toothpaste, gels, lotions, and so forth. It cost me $80! he complained. (He's so well-groomed that he sometimes gets upgraded to Business Class for free). No one had told him what it was about, other than a terrorist threat. So we turned on the TV. And we called him back to explain. Meanwhile, he'd been videotaped by the local TV news dumping his personal care products.
Have the British caught all the plotters? or are some still at large, possibly in the USA?
Despite reassurances from Homeland Security Michael Chertoff and Company this morning, we are not completely reassured...
(More background on this story at MichelleMalkin.com and DebbieSchlussel.com.)
