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August 10, 2006

Terrorist attack on UK planes disrupted

At the time of writing, it looks like the security services in the UK (working with those from other countries as well) have prevented a planned terrorist attack on flights from the UK. Though this may change as more information becomes available, it currently looks like this was another suicide attack - but using a somewhat different approach to those on September 11: bombs were to have been smuggled onto the flights in hand luggage. Arrests have been made, and there's a lot of disruption of flights leaving the UK (the US has also issued an alert re. flights to/from the UK). I'm sure that more information will emerge as time goes by; at the moment, though, it's just fortunate that the attacks appear to have been stopped.

I've just been reading some of John Mackinlay's work - where he argues that the virtual dimension of conflict today allows its 'vital ground' to comprise a range of geographically diverse areas. This certainly brings home some of the potential implications of this.

Posted by jon_mendel at August 10, 2006 12:19 PM