ordering a vegetarian in-flight meal as a terrorist red flag

Posted on: Tue, 05/18/2010 - 18:34 By: Tom Swiss

The Daily Mail reports that British police secretly investigated the backgrounds of 47,000 flyers last year, people who were singled out for attention by a 1.2 billion pound "terrorist detector" system. The system has never led to the arrest of a terrorist, and is now used to target "sex offenders and football hooligans". One of its red flags for potential terrorists: ordering a vegetarian meal.