Bush orders clampdown on flights to US

From The Guardian

“EU officials furious as Washington says it wants extra data on all air passengers.

The US administration is pressing the 27 governments of the European Union to sign up for a range of new security measures for transatlantic travel, including allowing armed guards on all flights from Europe to America by US airlines.

The demand to put armed air marshals on to the flights is part of a travel clampdown by the Bush administration that officials in Brussels described as “blackmail” and “troublesome”, and could see US visas being introduced for west Europeans and Britons travelling to the US if their governments balk at the American requirements.” more