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Personally I see sense in the precautions. The loss of the airliners wouldn't be an issue worse than the plot Havoc, but the hundreds of lives that go with them would be.
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Well yea ofcourse, but on a financial level shutting down Heathrow for a day would seriously hurt the economy. To put it very bluntly they would actualy save money if they would have had the terrorists board the planes and blow them up. Not saying that should have happend, but in a way the terrorists caused a lot more damage now that they would have if they would have gotten on the plane. Both financialy and moraly. Because this just reinforced that idea to people that terrorism is still very real. And that is still needed to shut down train stations and airfields everytime there is the slightest idea of terrorism. Dumb people like Bush may think they have terrorism under control, but in fact the terrorists have won right after 9/11. They never gave us a chance to retaliate. They won as soon as those planes hit.
Look at it this way, and this is the truth. If I were to carefully plan it out. I could cripple an entire country SINGLE HANDED, by sending out fake terrorism threats. If I were to keep that up for years without getting caught, you could drive a country into bankrubcy because of the economic crisis you would cause on the long run.
If I were to threaten to bomb Boeing HQ for instance, all the shares for Boeing would drop down dramaticaly, just because of a meaningless threat. Imagine what would happen if you were to threaten diffrent key companies that keep a country's economy going? It would totaly collapse.
That was the point I'm trying to make. And if you don't believe me, try it out for yourself. It's not that hard. Make one phonecall to heathrow with the report that there are several bombs spread around heathrow, and they will promptly shut down the entire airport again. I dare anyone to try this. It will actualy be very fun to see :P.