Yep, thats about right. It couldn't possibly be any kind of management failure

Officials blamed inexperienced staff for missing five terror alerts.....

Keep calm and blame the new recruits!

The only terrorists here are those in the military, government and media who are deliberately creating this climate of fear.

They sure are leaving the door open for something to happen at the Olympics. Most the time when people predict something will occur, it falls flat on it's face. But with a second-rate security detail, it may actually happen this time.

The reality concerning the failure at the airport to detect and deal with these potential threats is down to nothing other than the insane reductions in manpower that were forced on the UKBA (UK Border Agency) by their management and Theresa May, the Home Secretary. In an effort to save money, hundreds of jobs at UKBA were axed under TM's watch. However, later, as it was revealed that not only had numbers of staff been dropped, but proper checks were not being made on passports and so on, as part of a trial of measures meant TO KEEP QUEUES DOWN (of all the bloody stupid reasons you could name) Theresa May managed to deflect blame and responsibility onto her subordinate, one Mr Brody Clark, who claims that he acted according to her instruction by rolling out these measures, but was forced to resign over the issue!!

After this balderdash was revealed, questions (and good ones too if you ask me) were asked about the capacity of the UKBA to keep up with the increased traffic through the gates of the UK's airports, ports, and other facilities. All the assurances under the sun were given, including the promise of something close to eight hundred extra staff to cope with the influx. However, as I am sure we can all guess, there is no way that such a piddling number of people, would ever have been able to make a reasonable dent in the inevitable lines at immigration, let alone do a solid job of keeping the country safe from persons of vile intent coming over our borders.

Perhaps this would not be happening now if the staff which used to man the nations immigration desks had been properly funded, and not made redundant in order to please a bunch of suits. Perhaps if the expirenced and professional staff who were in place before the cuts came were allowed to continue their jobs, rather than languish in unemployment, or seek work in the private sector, we could have an olympics not plauged by unreasonable, and avoidable threats from outside our fair shores.

One thing I do know, Theresa May cannot pass the buck on this one, and if her head does not roll after THIS fiasco, then she must have an adamantine hyoid bone, and concrete cervical section in her spine.

Wow. It's incredible just how much "suspected terror" has occurred in the past decade. I think "terror" has just won out as the most abused word in the World Dictionary. It boils down to the fact that we are living in a world where suspicion is the terrifying agent.

ETA: How sensational that article is! I was pulled aside at an airport for being on a watch list (I never found out why). Does that make me a "terror suspect"? Good lord.

SNAFU comes to mind.

the head of mi5 went on al jazeera about 3 weeks ago saying the olympics was wide open to attack i thought it was strange them going on Arabic news and saying that
and now its in the media that they have let terror suspects in, it sounds to me like they are building there story line ready for the main event

if they knew they had missed some "terror suspects" then surely they should know who they are and will have arrested them all by now? otherwise how would they know they had missed them

Between this and the carload they popped last week I'm convinced that there will be an attack in London.

It's way too ripe of a target.