" White House backs air marshals' actions" You'd have thought that they'd have learned by now that it's better to wait until the actual facts have been established before comeing out with that kind of stuff. Remember that crap that the police chuief Ian Blair came out with in London about how Jean Charles de Menenzes had been runnigh away and acting suspiciously and all that.

And where do these blokes with the guns get the bright idea that shooting someone who actually did have a bomb would be a surefire way to stop them detonating it? It might just as easily be a ceertain way of ensuring that they do detonate it.