"Ask yourself: if I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly into Beijing?
"When you have jets being flown up the English Channel, when you have submarines in the North Sea, it looks to me like it's warming up".
Five police officers and a press photographer have been injured after a riot erupted in the grounds of Belfast city hall following a council vote to cut the number of days the Union flag will be flown there.
Like him, the other detainees had been snatched by US soldiers from Iraq's towns and cities and flown to a place that had already become infamous: a foreboding desert fortress that would shape the legacy of the US presence in Iraq.
We've flown here on a 10-seater charter plane as part of a tour organized by the Hotel Tower in Georgetown, Guyana's capital city.
The troops from 2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment were flown into Arbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, last week to prepare for a possible deployment of Chinook helicopters on a mission to save families from a little-known religious sect who were stuck on a mountainside.
By the time his three-and-a-half hours in the middle had come to an end, caught in the deep, some 24 fours and two sixes had flown from the bat.
All they knew was that he had some connection to Liam Fox, the defence secretary who had flown out for a weekend to make a speech to a private local foundation.
Speaking to the Guardian as he was about to board another plane, Gunness said150 metric tons of aid was being flown to Jordan from where the agency hopes it will then be driven to Gaza.
Sinn Féin and SDLP councillors accepted a compromise motion from the centrist Alliance party that the flag be flown only on dedicated days such as the Queen's birthday.
New Zealand hoki carries the coveted logo of sustainability - but has to be flown unsustainably halfway round the world to satisfy the voracious needs of British canneries and supermarket shelves.
