England has raised it’s terror threat level to “severe,” at least in part to an increased number of people from the no-fly list showing up at London’s Heathrow Airport.  The new level of danger means that an attack is “highly likely.”   As a result, airport security has been beefed up and now includes pat-downs at the boarding gate, as well as the usual metal detectors, etc.

A few days before raising the alert level, banned passengers from Saudi Arabia and Egypt were stopped as they tried to board planes.  Both of them were headed for the U.S., to Miami and Chicago respectively.

The pair were part of a recent uptick in no-fly passengers trying to board planes in Europe.

- Robert Laurie