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Liquid bomb airport checks: what's it all about?
A genuine “liquid bomb threat” or an attempt to sustain a level of anti-terror hysteria to justify expenditure on the “war on terror”? Jon Snow blogs from the airport for Channel 4 News.
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A genuine “liquid bomb threat” or an attempt to sustain a level of anti-terror hysteria to justify expenditure on the “war on terror”? Jon Snow blogs from the airport for Channel 4 News.
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