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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

U.K. bans direct flight from Yemen..[ 567 ]

Gordon Brown announces ban on direct flights from Yemen to Britain

Gordon Brown has announced a ban on direct flights from Yemen to Britain following the attempted Christmas Day Detroit bomb attack.

TELEGRAPH Co.,UK.,, Published: 12:59PM GMT 20 Jan 2010

Gordon Brown addresses the media at the news conference during the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 in Copenhagen
The Prime Minister said the ban on direct flights would remain in place until new security measures were put in place in the Middle Eastern country.

The ban comes amid security fears following the attempted bombing of a passenger plane on December 25th 2009 by a man allegedly radicalised in Yemen.
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Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who attempted to detonate explosives on the plane as it came in to land in Detroit, was a student in London but came into contact with al Qaida in Yemen.

Yemen was an "incubator and potential safe haven for terrorism", Mr Brown said.

In a statement to the House of Commons, Mr Brown also announced the creation of two new terror watch lists as part of a package of measures aimed at beefing up border security.

One new list will contain the names of individuals prohibited from flying to and from the UK.

The second, longer list will include lower risk individuals who will be subjected to special screening before they can board planes heading for the UK.

Mr Brown also pledged that all major ports and airports would be covered by the Home Office's e-borders scheme by the end of this year.

Under the £1.2 billion programme, passengers must provide detailed personal information when buying their tickets so they can be checked against watchlists before flying.

Mr Brown said: "We have agreed with Yemenia Airlines - pending enhanced security - that they suspend their direct flights to the UK from Yemen with immediate effect.

"We are working closely with the Yemeni government to agree what security measures need to be put in place before flights are resumed.

"I hope that flights can be resumed soon - but the security of our citizens must be our priority."

Yemen carrier Yemenia Yemen Airways, which had been operating two flights a week between London and Yemen, said it had suspended services last week.

The decision was made after the UK Government demanded flights stop in Cairo to be unloaded and checked.

A London-based spokesman for the airline, Farouk Burhan, said: "The UK Government said we could only carry on flights if we landed at another country's airport en route and completely unloaded the plane, including cargo, before having everything checked.

"We used to fly non-stop between London and Yemen and, more recently, we have been flying via Cairo.

"We would have had to unload at Cairo and we decided we could not comply with this request."

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