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Hundreds of canceled flights. Huge lines at airports. Ferocious new baggage restrictions. Long delays. Traveling by air during the peak August holiday season is always an ordeal, but this year, it's far more strenuous than usual. Almost a week after the foiling of an alleged terrorist plot to blow up planes flying across the Atlantic, international air traffic remains snarled, especially at British airports, including Heathrow, the world's busiest international hub. Thousands of passengers - and their bags - have been stranded there, and the airlines and the company that runs Heathrow are now engaged in a nasty dispute over...
...Amid all the turbulence, however, what's notable is that people are still flying - and a large majority will continue to do so. That's a big contrast to 2001, in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, when air traffic collapsed, pushing several of the big U.S. carriers into, or close to, bankruptcy and causing severe financial troubles for almost all major airlines around the globe. This time, there are grumbles aplenty, but no mass-scale defections. "Passengers are getting more used to the idea of terrorism as an ongoing threat," says Philip Baggaley, airline analyst for Standard...
...While senior Pakistani officials do not believe Azhar is directly linked to recent terrorist activity in Pakistan or to al-Qaeda, it is believed rebel members of his group are now forging links with Osama Bin Laden's Afghanistan-based network...
...responses. Many readers deplored the tactics being used by both sides and chastised the U.S. for failing to broker a deal that would curb the violence The moral equivalence assigned to Israel and Hizballah in Lisa Beyer's article "Hate Thy Neighbor" [July 24] was disgusting. Hizballah is a terrorist organization that targets innocent civilians with its rockets. Israel is a democratic nation-state with the right of self-defense. Comparing the two is akin to saying the U.S. and al-Qaeda are on the same moral plane. The U.S. does not negotiate with terrorists, and neither should Israel. Matt...
...Heathrow after the arrests. The plane arrived nearly two hours late, and the passengers emerged clutching plastic bags for their passports and not much else. But Bort was unfazed. "I still think I have a greater chance of being hurt in a car accident than getting killed by a terrorist," she said...