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The men are being questioned over an alleged plot to fund terrorist activities.
This follows the arrest last week of another British Airways employee from Newcastle on similar charges.
From the Daily Mail:
A Heathrow Airport worker is in police custody today after a series of raids into an alleged terrorist fund-raising plot.
The man is the second British Airways worker held after three men were arrested in dawn raids this morning, taking to four the number in custody.
It follows the arrest on Thursday of a 30-year-old British Airways employee in Newcastle.
The three men, aged 31, 32 and 43, were seized by police at 5am today in Slough.
The men are now being questioned about a plot to fund a terrorist attack.
Police refused to clarify what positions the two BA employees had within the airline. Sources said the latest arrests were 'significant'.
The article goes on to quote a British Airways spokesman that "We take all matters relating to security extremely seriously."
So seriously, obviously, that these men found employment in the first place.
When I returned to Germany after the Christmas holidays, I flew out of Stansted. As I went through security, I was taken aside by an officer and told he would have to pat me down - for my own safety, and everyone else's, obviously, because I am simply such a threat.
The officer in question was a Pakistani man with a long, traditional Muslim beard. Quite apart from whether or not that is in itself appropriate given the circumstances Western nations now find themselves in (and the reasons trotted out for the invasive, aggressive procedures increasingly used at airport security, of all things), one would have thought such people would have to adhere to a dress code for their own safety.
After all, he does a job where he regularly gets up close and personal with potentially aggressive strangers - surely, as with the police, that would make such a beard a liability?
But, as with everything now, common sense is always trumped by political correctness. It will be interesting when the first pictures of these alleged plotters and more details are released.
So seriously, obviously, that these men found employment in the first place.
When I returned to Germany after the Christmas holidays, I flew out of Stansted. As I went through security, I was taken aside by an officer and told he would have to pat me down - for my own safety, and everyone else's, obviously, because I am simply such a threat.
The officer in question was a Pakistani man with a long, traditional Muslim beard. Quite apart from whether or not that is in itself appropriate given the circumstances Western nations now find themselves in (and the reasons trotted out for the invasive, aggressive procedures increasingly used at airport security, of all things), one would have thought such people would have to adhere to a dress code for their own safety.
After all, he does a job where he regularly gets up close and personal with potentially aggressive strangers - surely, as with the police, that would make such a beard a liability?
But, as with everything now, common sense is always trumped by political correctness. It will be interesting when the first pictures of these alleged plotters and more details are released.
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