London nights.
September 7th 2006 About a month before my flight, a major terrorist ring is broken up in England. They’d been planning to blow up as many as a dozen trans-Atlantic flights, using high-tech liquid explosives that could be mixed and detonated aboard the plane. New rules are put in place; liquids and gels are banned from carry-on bags. For a few frenzied weeks, water bottles and toothpaste tubes and little cans of s
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