This terrorism lark gets better by the day.

Slovak security forces planted high explosive on an innocent traveller to test their procedures. These failed, leading to the poor sap travelling by air to Dublin with a bomb in his luggage. Then they forgot to tell anyone for days, casually mentioning it so that Irish police raided the fellow and banged him up under anti-terrorism laws.

I suppose he should be grateful it wasn't the Met, who would have shot him anyway.

Far more appalling to my mind than loading volatile explosives onto a plane through negligence is the fact that completely innocent people are having bombs planted on them. Anyone could be set up this way and all the authorities would need to do is have a brief amnesia. What if this chap had been flying to a less laid-back country like China - or God forbid, the United States? Off for special rendition before anyone could say "No, honestly, it's a joke - it is crucifixion - put me back!"

So, I guess "if you've got nothing to hide, you got nothing to worry about" legislation gets ever more troubling?