great, they'll ban me. unfrigging believable  
  
These guys must not have read the NYT story about the monitoritoring of the wires passing through the SWIFT network. Hopefully they'll get a sweet settlement and a swift apology from Scotland Yard. 
  
"A number of events are understood to have convinced the counter-terrorist agencies to act. A telephone call about the alleged plot was intercepted, internet communication increased noticeably and two men under surveillance disappeared off the intelligence radar. However, security sources indicated that the key event — thought to be the transfer of funds — had taken place overseas. “It was very close, and it was too risky to allow the surveillance operation to go on for any longer,” one source said. 
  
These are the names of 19 suspects reportedly being held by the police after the foiled plot and whose assets the Treasury has sought to have frozen. 
  
Umir Hussain, 24, London E14 
  
Muhammed Usman Saddique, 24, London E17 
  
Waheed Zaman, 22, London E17 
  
Assan Abdullah Khan, 22, London E17 
  
Waseem Kayani, 28, High Wycombe 
  
Waheed Arafat Khan, 24, London E17 
  
Cossor Ali, 24, London E17 
  
Tayib Rauf, 21, Birmingham 
  
Ibrahim Savant, 26, London E17 
  
Osman Adam Khatib, 20, London E17 
  
Shamin Mohammed Uddin, 36, Stoke Newington 
  
Amin Asmin Tariq, 23, London E17 
  
Shazad Khuram Ali, 27, High Wycombe 
  
Tanvir Hussain, 24, London E10 
  
Umar Islam, 28, (born Brian Young) High Wycombe 
  
Assad Sarwar, 25, High Wycombe 
  
Abdullah Ali, 26, London E17 
  
Abdul Muneem Patel, 17, London E5 
  
Nabeel Hussain, 21, Waltham Forest"  
  
Based on the list of names, ages, etc, clearly there is no way we could apply rules for screening other than to include blue-haired old ladies, and mothers breast-feeding their children.