What kind of person sits around with friends in a discussion about the kinds of 'everyday' bric brac they can use to confound airport authorities in an attempt to take explosives onto flights?
The latest arrests in London of 24 suspects includes elaborate plans to use such commonplace devices as iPods as detonation devices for liquid bombs smuggled onto aircraft disguised as such seemingly innocuous items as soft drinks or facial cream.
The apparently 'ordinariness' of the suspected bombers has also been one of the subjects of reports in the media, including testimony from unsuspecting neighbours that they seemed to be such 'nice' people, and their local mosque directors that they don't seem the types to be terrorists. Implication - that the police may have made a mistake! Well, we're all supposedly innocent until proven guilty. The problem is that the human factor in journalism could, in this instance, take the edge off the seriousness off the situation.
Journalists tend to look for the 'human' story in events like these, which is valid reporting, but an overemphasis could serve to nullify the gravity of potential threat by what are allegedly highly motivated terrorist operatives, trained to kill innocent people in the most dastardly way.
Quite simply, there is nothing 'normal' or 'average' about people who plan these kinds of operation. If indeed they were planning to be on these flights with the aim of destroying noncombatants, they should be seen and portrayed as the murderous monsters terrorists are, rather than 'just' the kids next door. Furthermore, it should become the highest priority of authorities to draw out of them, by legal means of course, and engage in stringent investigations to uncover those who have so seriously and tragically indoctrinated young Britons with such savagery.
Old Englands history is filled with stories of invasion, war and conquest, but this is a different breed of warrior. This is the person who has been filled with a hatred for his own nation, his own people, and prepared to unscrupulously, and indescrimately kill his own blood-kin, for what? To continue the violent and bloody publicity campaign of viscious, opportunist terrorists who don't really give a rip about the young peeople they brainwash and set up to be their death-slaves.
Anyone who schemes and makes an otherwise innocently pleasure giving device like an iPod a sinister and suspicious article on a flight should be locked away for a long, long time.
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