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Letters to the Editor | 16 September 2006

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issue 16 September 2006

Third degree at Heathrow

From Andrew Hamilton
Sir: In my experience the overzealous and politically correct airport security in America (High Life, 2 September) is being replicated in this country.

At Heathrow security recently, off to see my son in Shanghai, I couldn’t resist asking the body-searcher whether or not I resembled a Muslim terrorist (I am 59, white, grey-haired and an accountant).

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