The daft thing about all this stuff is that all the fingerprints and that kind of stuff can do is prove that the person carrying the passport is the person whose details are on the passport.

Unless of course they've got all the airport security desks wired into some incredible computer that has all the fingerprints and so forth of all the people suspected of being terrorists in the world.

I understand they haven't got to that stage yet. If they ever do I suspect the list would be full of people who had been identified as buying almanacs or street maps of big cities...