Spectacular Terrorist Attack BUSTED

London Evening Standard | 3/30/04

[Cheetah1]

This is LONDON 30/03/04 - News and city section

Terror bombs seized By Justin Davenport and Hugh Dougherty, Evening Standard

An al Qaeda plot to blast London was dramatically foiled by police today.

Seven hundred police swooped in a series of 6am raids in the capital and the Home Counties. They found half a tonne of fertiliser explosives - enough for a series of terror "spectaculars".

The terrorist suspects arrested by police are believed to have chosen "soft targets" for bombings including pubs and clubs. One of the suspects being held had a job at Gatwick Airport, immediately raising concerns over airlines and passengers.

A total of eight men - all of them British citizens of Pakistani descent, three of them teenagers - were arrested in the operation, with police from five forces searching a total of 24 addresses across London and the South-East.

The ammonium nitrate explosives were discovered in a self-storage warehouse in Hanwell, west London and have now been made safe. They are the same explosives that al Qaeda used in attacks in Bali, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.

The raids came only two weeks after Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir John Stevens warned that an attack on London was "inevitable" and that the targets could include pubs, clubs and shopping centres.

Scotland Yard deputy assistant commissioner Peter Clarke said today: "I must stress the threat from terrorism is very real and the public must remain watchful and alert."

[Cheetah1]

John Kerry "I will end this war on terrorism and bring our allies back to us"

GET LOST KERRY

[maro]

Well done, Tony Blair!

[Cheetah1]

Bush - I will hunt them down...smoke them out...

:)

WE HAVE A LEADER FOLKS!!!!!!!

GET OUT THE VOTE 2004

[VRWC_minion]

One of the suspects being held had a job at Gatwick Airport

Let me guess. He was transferred from Kennedy/TWA800

[Mo1]

Seven hundred police swooped in a series of 6am raids in the capital and the Home Counties. They found half a tonne of fertiliser explosives - enough for a series of terror "spectaculars".

Isn't that what was used in OK Bombing?

[GmbyMan]

This is great news, Cheetah. It is important to highlight when the war on terror is working!

[AmericanInTokyo]

Hate to say it, but this is 2004, and better safe than sorry:

Any person you come across in the United States, regardless if they are a USA citizen or not, if they are of a Middle Eastern or Islamic background, (at the workplace, party, 7Eleven store, wherever) and they are mouthing out things bad about America or in support of pan-Arabic/Islamist movements, I would not hesitate for a moment to report them to the FBI as possible fifth column saboteurs.

You can bet we have a bunch of people in the US in the same general modus as the Brits of Paki descent (including teenagers) who were committed to blowing up parts of Western Civiliation all in the name of Allah.

This cancer is EVERYWHERE.

[talleyman]

Good news bump!

[DallasMike]

Isn't that what was used in OK Bombing?

Just repeat to yourself: "There is no link between Oklahoma and Al Qaeda -- it was all the fault of Rush Limbaugh and the rightwing politics of hate."

[537cant be wrong]

john kerry: woops, no friends here
no friends there???????



what a big loser kerry is!

[facedown]

Good catch BTTT!

[RonF]

Just repeat to yourself: "There is no link between Oklahoma and Al Qaeda -- it was all the fault of Rush Limbaugh and the rightwing politics of hate."

The only link is that both groups find buying fertilizer bomb components easy to do and relatively inexpensive. Farmers have been using this stuff for years to blow up stumps and move large rocks. It's low tech and buying it in large quantities without raising suspicions is simpler than getting one's hands on C4.

[Mo1]

I tried that .. but for some reason I couldn't get it through my thick skull :0)

[oceanview]

there isn't even a mention of this on the US network radio news reports.

[DoctorMichael]

This was all over the radio news this morning when I got up and on my drive-in. Important stuff.

[jla]

According to Mr. John Kerry the threat of terrorism is exaggerated.
Those arrested here are surely just farmers who had planned on using the fetrtilizer for growing more abundant crops to feed the hungry of the world.

[MrB]

Kerry's plan would have been to have more police and firefighters to sweep up the corpses after the attack.

[Wolfstar]

Fertilizer? Isn't that what the Left/Dems spread around every day with the willing help of their sycophantic "mainstream" media shills?