I didn't post links to the insistence sources, because I realised that they were possibly iffy, on reflection. Have traced the reference on a message board urban75, where no-one, and some posters seemed to be connected with the army, challenged it.

They arose back in March, and referred back to a question in the Commons, and then stated that this had been picked up in the White House. I am still trying to find a reputable source for that.

I should be more careful. But I still think that really good security at airports and places where small planes could take off would be much better than the offchance of killing people to avoid killing other people. And given the time available to make decisions, it doesn't look very sensible anyway. Presumably they would have to go up to someone entitled to decide to kill people to make the decision. Time lost there in those few minutes. And suppose a perfectly innocent plane is shot down? like that Iranian air liner over the Gulf.

As to the copied sources - if they were the ones about the flats, the person who blew the whistle on that one was a journalist living there, and I suspect he submitted his piece to all the media, so it isn't exactly plagiarism. It appears he has also submitted to foreign media - something called DMNews.

I didn't read all of them, I admit, just looking for a range with different politial standpoints.

It is the final icing on the cake, in a way. Closing road lanes so the bigwigs can move around fast from their West End hotels, but workers can't get to work on time. Banning people from taking their own food in. Not allowing mothers of babies born since buying tickets to take the babies in, or get tickets for them. And all the rules about what can and can't be displayed by people miles away from the site. (I'm going to have my movement seriously curtailed by the closure of the A20 and feeder roads for three days during the Paralympic cycle events at Brands Hatch, as are many others, some worse, since they live on the A20. Sevenoaks, far off from the closures, is chortling about the honour it gives to the borough.)

All this and being a target for friendly fire, too. Whoever is responsible.

Penny