While I applaud the UK spooks who foiled the recent airline plot based in Britain, some of the reaction is getting a bit extreme and inconsistent:

An Alaska Airlines flight was evacuated on landing at Los Angeles International Airport on Monday after the flight crew became suspicious of a toy found on board.

Alaska Airlines Flight 281 from Guadalajara, Mexico, landed normally at LAX but taxied to a remote part of the airport, where passengers were quickly taken off while police using bomb-sniffing dogs investigated, an FBI spokesman said.

"The device was identified as a type of toy transmitter and a thorough search of the plane and cargo hold for explosives came up negative," he said.

Jet evacuated at LAX after toy spooks crew Mon Aug 14, 2006 7:58pm ET135, Reuters

OK, that makes some sense, given that Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) in Iraq are being set off by anything from a cell phone to a water hose (fill it with water and the pressure of a truck driving over it flips a switch).