Scotland Yard’s crack anti-terrorism squad is closing the books on its most successful week ever, after snaring something over 22,000 terrorist suspects at Heathrow Airport’s new Terminal 5.
“Traveling without luggage is one of your top items on the terrorist profile,” explained Inspector Nigel Puce-Worthington of the Yard. “But it’s that seething look of anger in their eyes that’s the clincher. I don’t care how much training they’ve had, they can’t disguise that from your skilled law enforcement professional. Once the chaps and I recognized the pattern, we were able to start scooping them up like scones off a tea-tray.
“The lads in Intelligence are still trying to figure out what the overall plan was, but clearly some sort of worldwide alert went out to get numbers like this,” Inspector Puce-Worthington explained. “Your top international terrorist tends to work alone or in your pairs. This time some mastermind decided to try to pull a fast one and dispatch whole planeloads of these thugs.
“Well, they’re going to be spending a little longer here than they expected,” he chuckled.
President Bush praised the Scotland Yard sleuths for their record haul and promised full U.S. support in “tracking these terrorists to their lairs.” Tops on the list of apparent U.S.-based front organizations snagged in the sweep, Mr. Bush proudly reported, are “Mrs. Kranzler’s supposed 11th-grade English class from John F. Kennedy High School in Porthole, Indiana, and the so-called Senior Sojourners of West Grounge, Pennsylvania.”
