Yemen put on a new UK flight ban list
Sharon MillerPrime Minister Gordon Brown revealed the British Government is ready to impose a ban on all flights between Yemen and the UK.
Plans for the introduction of a list of prohibited inbound-outbound destinations—called the “no-fly” list – have been deemed necessary since the events of Christmas Day and to alt certain suspected terrorist from coming to the United Kingdom.
The upgraded security measures will also call for rigid scrutiny from other countries.
The decision is considered an important element of new anti-terrorist measures which have emerged as necessary following the failed Christmas Day bombing attempt by Nigerian national Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab who wanted to blow up an airliner making a transatlantic flight between Amsterdam and Detroit.
Gordon Brown said that all of the important airports and ports in the UK will fall under the Home Office’s e-borders programme by year’s end.
Under the £1.2bn scheme, passengers coming entering the United Kingdom would be required to give their personal information to authorities when buying their tickets so that their identity may be verified against a watchlists before the flight.
But the flight ban is being subjected to criticism from experts who say that such a move won’t be much of a deterrent.
According to security consultant Robert Emerson, a determined terrorist will have to fly in to the UK by using another route, similarly to Abdulmutallab, who used a route which under the new scheme, is considered relatively inoffensive.
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