Two Men On No-fly List Stopped at Heathrow

The UK’s Mirror News reports two men were stopped from boarding US-bound planes at Heathrow airport just days before Britain’s terror threat was raised to “severe”.

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Security sources say an Egyptian was stopped last Saturday as he tried to board an American Airlines flight to Miami. A man from Saudi Arabia was banned from boarding a United Airlines flight to Chicago the next day and sent back to Saudi.

The incidents and the raised threat level follow the failed Christmas Day bombing on a plane over Detroit.

Anti-terror officials said the past week had seen an “unusually high” number of people on their no-fly list trying to board US-bound planes.

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