EU seeks explosives crackdown after airline plot


  • World
  • Wednesday, 16 Aug 2006

LONDON (Reuters) - Shocked by a suspected Islamist plot to blow up airliners, Europe will seek closer police cooperation and better ways to detect explosives while moving to combat Muslim radicalisation, ministers said on Wednesday. 

Intelligence officials will increase the exchange of passenger information and find the means to censor Internet sites that teach bomb-making, they promised. 

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