The story could just as easily be about the DHS Threat Advisory system. The public doesn't understand what causes a change in threat levels and thus don't care when it is raised. The case of Abdul Muttallab happened with no change in our threat system either before or after his attempted attack. The British system appears to be raised in anticipation of some vague threat. You can see from the comments that the British public are thoroughly unimpressed. If government officials want to the public to take these systems seriously, they need to do a better job of explaining the threat. TSA needs to seriously re-evaluate their procedures to show they are effective at detecting and preventing terrorist attacks onboard aircraft. Until then, the US and UK threat advisory systems will be treated like the little boy that cried "Wolf!" too many times.
Terrorist threat level raised to 'severe' - Times Online
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