Gordon Brown orders airport security review

The UK will "move quickly" to enhance airport security after the "wake-up call" of the alleged failed Detroit plane attack, the prime minister says.

Gordon Brown said he had ordered a review of existing security measures, and advisers would report within days.

Full-body scanners would be among the new technologies considered, he said.

He also said the alleged plane bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who had studied in London, had linked up with al-Qaeda in Yemen after leaving the UK.

A former close friend of Mr Abdulmutallab has also told the BBC he believes he was radicalised after leaving the country in 2008.

Qasim Rafiq knew the suspect for three years at University College London, and preceded him as president of its Islamic Society.

He says Mr Abdulmutallab had shown no signs of violent extremism while living in the UK.

'New techniques'

Nigerian-born Mr Abdulmutallab is accused of trying to detonate a bomb on a flight as it came in to land in Detroit on Christmas Day.