Yeah... must have been scary for those arriving at an airport, not knowing what was going on to see all the police about, people outside and strict checks. I know I would be very nervous!
It is great its been intercepted... because if it was liquids in a bottle they just wouldn't have been picked up- I'm sure most of us take a drink on a plane. And it sounds like mobiles might have been rigged up as detinators somehow.
I always thought it was odd, last time they stepped up security, that you couldn't take a nail file in your handluggage incase it was to be used as a weapon but you could take glass bottles from the duty free. A smashed bottle is like a knife!
Got caught up in it to a lesser extend when I went shopping today, train was delayed and their were police everywhere!