Submitted to the Daily Telegraph (for the Sunday edition) and the Times, maybe one of them will publish it:

Sir,

It is with a macabre amusement that I have watched the reporting surrounding the alleged plot to bomb planes flying out of this country. Surely if one was of evil bent, and wished to cause economic and mental chaos, leaking news to the Western intelligence agencies of an impending strike against aircraft is the perfect psychological operation in a post-9/11 world?

Consider that the ensuing panicked response from our esteemed government has had a large financial impact on business directly and indirectly related to airline transport, and has caused members of the public pure grief while trying to travel. I submit that the attacks may or may not have been real, but that the psychological operation against our government and ourselves was, and is, real – and was a resounding success.