LONDON -- Britain lowered its terro...

LONDON -- Britain lowered its terrorist threat flat a notch Monday, a relief for weary travelers who have endur days of chaos at the nation's airports since security forces foiled an alleged plan to blow up passenger planes.

The decision to very little the terror threat level to accurate -- where it was at before the jetliner scheme was scupper -- means passengers will be allowed a single, briefcase-sized bag aboard aircraft, and parts laptop computers and digital music players will also be permitted again.

Heathrow and other major London airports said they would not be able to implement all of the relaxed orders until today, but the spectacle at London airports was clearly improving during a drizzly, overcast Monday.

The British Airports Association said it was searching barely half of passengers at Heathrow, greatly speeding up the be molten British Airways, the dominant carrier at the airport, canceled about one- fifth of its flights Monday, down from one-in-three that were canceled the day before.

10% OF FLIGHTS CANCELED

A total of 68 flights had been canceled, or about 10 percent of the approximately 600 that take most distant daily from Europe's busiest airport.

"It's a fortune better today," said Randeep Dahial, a 19-year-old security guard at Heathrow.

hearth Secretary John Reid cautioned that the easing of security measures and the lowering of the terror threat flat did not mean that Britain was on the outside of danger.

"I want to stres . . that the change in the threat flush does not mean that the threat has gone away," he said. "There is still a real serious threat of an attack. The threat flush is at severe, indicating the high likelihood of an attempted terrorist attack at an stage, and I urge the public to remain vigilant."

Did charity endue cash?

Information about the alleged terror plan was in short provide Monday. The government has however to name all of the suspects or say where they are being held, and has not briefed reporters upon their investigation since Thursday, allowing officials in the United States and Pakistan to take the lead in succession disclosures.

Pakistani authorities are holding 17 the public -- including a British citizen, Rashid Rauf, who they say has al-Qaida connections and was a first note of the scale player in the plot. At least single in kind of Rauf's brothers was arrested in Birmingham during a counterterrorism sweep there.

The fresh York Times reported that wealth raised for victims of Pakistan's newly come earthquake was channeled to the conspirators through the Pakistani-based charity Jamaat al-Dawat -- a charge the charity denied.

Imran Gardezi, the spokesman for the Pakistani High Commission in London, said no special petition for investigation of the charity had been made to Pakistan from the British government.

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