Saturday, January 03, 2004
British Airways Flight 223.
Third day lucky, the British Airways Flight 223 takes off for Washington from London Heathrow.
I think it was right to ground the flights following specific threats to those particular flights advised by our intelligence services. If it had all gone wrong, following our Hutton Inquiry, many security staff would have spoke out saying that their views were ignored again. This was a serious threat, one flight into Washington was escorted by fighter jets. Intelligence does vary in it's quality and accuracy - remember the claim that Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction that it could launch in 45 minutes.
Third day lucky, the British Airways Flight 223 takes off for Washington from London Heathrow.
I think it was right to ground the flights following specific threats to those particular flights advised by our intelligence services. If it had all gone wrong, following our Hutton Inquiry, many security staff would have spoke out saying that their views were ignored again. This was a serious threat, one flight into Washington was escorted by fighter jets. Intelligence does vary in it's quality and accuracy - remember the claim that Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction that it could launch in 45 minutes.
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