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Terror alert may disrupt flights for years Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://news.myway.com/top/article/id/369114|top|01-04-2004::15:06|reuters.html http://news.myway.com/top/article/id/369114|top|01-04-2004::15:06|reuters.html UK Says Terror Alerts May Disrupt Flights for Years Jan 4, 2:51 PM (ET) By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Britain warned Sunday that travelers face years of severe security alerts like one that forced several international flights to be grounded last week amid fears of a September 11-style terror attack. Transport Secretary Alistair Darling said exceptional circumstances and specific information about a possible terror threat led British Airways to cancel two flights from Britain to Washington and one to the Saudi capital Riyadh last week. "For many years to come, we are going to be living in an age where there is going to be a heightened state of alert. Sometimes it will be quite severe," he told BBC television. "Where we have to cancel a flight, the grounds are very clear in our minds and we are justified in taking that decision." A BA flight from London, grounded Thursday and Friday due to security alerts, finally left Saturday and landed in Washington Sunday morning. Passengers said security had been extremely tight at London's Heathrow airport before their departure, but the flight itself aboard the jumbo jet was uneventful. Extra security checks delayed the same flight again on Sunday. Flight BA 223 took off more than three hours after its scheduled departure time. "The delay has been caused by the passing of some extra information to the U.S.," a BA spokesman said. "They have requested to be supplied with extra information about the flight for security purposes before take-off to Washington, the same as happened yesterday." Flights from Mexico and France to the United States were also canceled over the holiday period due to security fears. Darling declined to comment on the cause of the BA alert. Britain's Sunday Times newspaper, citing a senior intelligence source, said security services had word of a plot by the Islamic extremist group al Qaeda again to hijack several jets -- including a BA plane -- simultaneously and crash them into big U.S. targets, in a re-run of September 11. The Sunday Telegraph quoted security sources as saying two al Qaeda members were at large in Britain and planned to detonate a shoe bomb or similar device in an aircraft lavatory. But Darling said the government was not prepared to give a running commentary on the intelligence information it had. "Most people would expect the government to look at all the information they have got and then reach a decision as to what is best to enable the aircraft to fly safely," he said. "Sometimes it is thought that the best course of action is to cancel a particular flight -- but that is very much the exception."

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