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August 10, 2006

Islamist terrorist plot foiled in UK - Lamont's netroots unimpressed

BBC

A plot to blow up planes in flight from the UK to the US and commit "mass murder on an unimaginable scale" has been disrupted, Scotland Yard has said.
It is thought the plan was to detonate explosive devices smuggled in hand luggage on to as many as 10 aircraft.

Police are searching premises after 21 people were arrested. Home Secretary John Reid said they believed the "main players" were accounted for.

AP
WASHINGTON - The terror scheme disrupted in London is "suggestive of an al-Qaida plot," the Bush administration said Thursday as it issued its highest terrorism alert ever for commercial flights from Britain to the United States and raised the threat level for all domestic and international flights.
[...]
The administration raised the threat level for flights from Britain to "red," designating a severe risk of terrorist attacks. All other flights, including all domestic flights in the United States, were put under an "orange," alert — one step below the highest level.

The U.S. government banned all liquids and gels from flights, including toothpaste, makeup, suntan lotion. Baby formula and medicines were exempted.
[...]
British authorities said the plan envisioned bringing down a number of aircraft with midflight explosions. Chertoff said the terrorists planned to bring various bomb components in a benign state aboard the planes and combine them once the planes were aloft to create and detonate explosive devices.

While this story is breaking, the Reality Based Community is again showing it's adult nature in handling this info of continued Islamist plots by jeering
JEERS to red meat for Fox News. The U.S. and Britain are now at Terror Alert Level "Mommy!!!" as an apparent terrorist plot to blow up 6-10 airliners is apparently thwarted. Officials say all liquids are now banned in the cabins of overseas flights. Great...just what a passenger riding on a potential time-bomb needs: an empty liquor cart.
These are the nutroots that claim victory for NED LAMONT. Dementedunderground is even worse.

Yeah, let's do put these puerile, pusillanimous pissants in charge of national security.

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Posted by Darleen at August 10, 2006 06:29 AM

Comments

Well, I'd say that Josh Marshall is pretty much right about this. Attacking Iraq does nothing to stop this kind of threat.

Posted by: Neil the Ethical Werewolf at August 10, 2006 02:15 PM

MPAC False Claim: Local Muslims Foiled UK Terror Plot
http://www.terrorfreeoil.org/videos/MS081106.php - video

Posted by: Terror-Free Oil at August 12, 2006 01:37 PM

Attacking Iraq does nothing to stop this kind of threat.

Yeah, you're right. It does nothing to keep Iraqi Air Force pilots for volunteering for special missions...

I'll let you connect the dots what those special missions might entail...

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie at August 13, 2006 02:51 PM