Posted on 11/22/2004 4:39:06 PM PST by soccer_linux_mozilla
LONDON (AFP) - British security services have foiled an Al-Qaeda plot to fly planes into targets in London in a September 11-style attack, Britain's independent ITV News network reported.
"This is the story of what could have been a nightmare averted," said ITV's political editor Nick Robinson. "A story not of failure, but of success." "That, at least, is what I am told by a senior authoritative source who says that the security services managed to avert a plot to fly planes into Canary Wharf here, and also into Heathrow Airport," he said.
"I simply do not know the details of how they found out, how they stopped it, how close the plot got, but I am in no doubt that this was a genuine feeling on the behalf of those in the security services that they had managed to foil a plot and make us safer," he added. ITV News confirmed to AFP that their journalist's "non-attributable source" was in "the arena" of the security services or government, but would not be specific.
Score One more for the good guys!!!!!
I'm guessing that at some point the terrorists are going to focus their attention on nations that don't take them seriously, like France and Germany.
Blair has to prove it!
WAAAAAA!
Wow. What is Canary Wharf?
And Heathrow...I don't want to think about what would happen if a jetliner was used on a packed Heathrow terminal on a peak travel day. The casualties would be well into the hundreds, maybe thousands.
}:-)4
Longer article with more details:
http://www.itv.com/news/index_808807.html
All the proof in the world won't help. NYC was the target of two of the terrorists airplanes yet the morons there STILL voted for Kerry by greater than 2:1.
Think this will change the Guardian's and BBC's tune? Don't hold your breath - even if the attack was successful these liars would blame it on Blair and Bush. According to the socialists at these media outlets, terrorists are freedom fighters who are rightly striking back at oppressors.
A free press is a dangerous thing when it no longer feels any compunction for morality, right/wrong, or patriotism.
Lot of strange things going on the past few days. The two security incidents in Chile, the plane that would have been carrying GHWB going down, and now this. I'm not normally a tinfoiler, but I have to wonder if something is going on.
OMG! They were going to fly planes into Heathrow! Now if only they could get them there on time and stop losing people's luggage...
Lathered up Lutherans!
Canary Warf = Commercial complex along waterfront in London. Tall office buildings, shops, restaurants, etc.
AFP and an undisclosed source.
Probably one of the clowns fired by Peter Goss.
"the plane that would have been carrying GHWB going down"
Okay, I missed this one. Link? Was it the Gulfstream in Houston?
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