Airline plot alert - A state of confusion and terror

THE world got a grim reminder yesterday of how terrorism can turn life upside down as Britain and America went on the highest possible security alert over a reported terrorist plot.

Global transport was disrupted, stock markets and currencies plummeted, and beleaguered air travellers were thrown into a state of confusion, not to mention terror.

Despite the dubious record of British police in high-profile incidents, the allegations of a plot to blow up US planes in flight from Britain and America and commit “mass murder on an unimaginable scale” warrant credence.