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'Plot to blow up planes' foiled [UK TERROR THREAT LEVEL RAISED TO IMMINENT{U.S.raised terror level)
BBC News ^ | Thursday, 10 August 2006, 05:06 GMT 06:06 UK | Unknown

Posted on 08/09/2006 10:17:04 PM PDT by gary_b_UK

A major terrorist plot to blow up planes in mid-flight has been disrupted by police, Scotland Yard says.

It is thought the plan was to detonate explosive devices smuggled on board aircraft in hand luggage.

During the night, police arrested a number of people in London after a counter-terrorist operation they said had lasted several months.

Police believe the attacks would have been particularly targeted at flights from the UK to the US.

The Department for Transport said security at all UK airports has been increased.

Passengers on all flights will not be allowed to take any hand luggage on to any flights in the UK.

Only the barest essentials - including passports and wallets - will be allowed to be carried on board in transparent plastic bags.


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To: Ben Chad

Source? Dude, clear the eyes and look at the bottom of the picture. Sheesh


1,441 posted on 08/10/2006 2:32:18 AM PDT by Ben Chad
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To: BigSkyFreeper

Yes, they are.


1,442 posted on 08/10/2006 2:33:09 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: onyx
LOL -- how are you holding up (((allegra)))?
We're living in dangerous times.

Holding up OK. {{{{onyx}}}}

I guess I've had a crash course on mayhem and chaos the past couple of years. Maybe it'll come in handy. LOL

Seriously, this is kind of surreal. Iraq was knocked out of the headlines a month ago. Israel and Lebanon are knocked out of the headlines now (although they appear to be striving very hard to take them back...Israel just nailed the center of Beirut). I hope and pray nothing else comes along to trump any of this.

1,443 posted on 08/10/2006 2:33:53 AM PDT by Allegra (FReeping LIVE! from "the other war zone.")
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To: Caipirabob; copguy; Border Enforcer; Marine Inspector; backhoe; piasa; Godzilla; nwctwx; Gucho; ...
Yes, very good update, Calpirabob

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "HUGE CROWDS FORMED AT SECURITY BARRIERS" (from post no. 1439)

1,444 posted on 08/10/2006 2:34:13 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: NorthWoody

All Hand luggage banned at Heathrow. Prescription medications must verified and baby formula tasted.


It is thought the plan was to detonate explosive devices smuggled on to as many as 10 aircraft in hand luggage.


1,445 posted on 08/10/2006 2:34:26 AM PDT by Cardhu
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To: Cindy; All

"Looking at the blogs...

http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=22028_Breaking-_Major_Terror_Plot_Foiled_in_UK
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=22028_Breaking-_Major_Terror_Plot_Foiled_in_UK#comments

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/005695.htm

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Dearbornistan terror arrests:
Flight docs and 600+ tracphones "




Don't forget older, homegrown links to terrorism:

Portland, Oregon- hub of terror? Some Surprising Connections-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1132469/posts

FAMILY OF 4 SLAUGHTERED-'ISLAMIC HATE' EYED IN SLAYS
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1322287/posts

The Sniper Archive--
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/769545/posts?page=9

The University of Oklahoma Bomber- Link Roundup
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1497194/posts

Toronto Terror-- or Gas Attack?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1608823/posts

Terror Strike Toronto ( Aborted! )
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1643104/posts


1,446 posted on 08/10/2006 2:34:53 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
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To: Cindy
And I REALLY appreciate all of your posted links! :-)

But I have come to the end; five hours of typing to this thread and I'm dead and now done.

Nighty night....................

1,447 posted on 08/10/2006 2:35:16 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: MEG33

Raised from "Count Chocula" to "Frankenberry" per FOX News 10 minutes ago.

1,448 posted on 08/10/2006 2:35:22 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: nopardons

Good night No Pardons.
Sleep well.


1,449 posted on 08/10/2006 2:35:41 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: Fitzcarraldo

Bttt


1,450 posted on 08/10/2006 2:36:24 AM PDT by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES.)
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To: backhoe
From blogger Conservative Home (U.K.):
If the intelligence is correct - and up to ten planes were targeted by terrorists (all destined for America) - it might wake a few Britons up the danger of the terrorist threat. Britons have already largely forgotten the 7/7 attacks and those attempted just two weeks afterwards.

I fear, however, that Britain is increasingly 'Spanish' in its reaction to these incidents. Within hours there'll be pundits blaming the invasion of Iraq and Blair's support for Israel for making Britain vulnerable to these attacks.


1,451 posted on 08/10/2006 2:36:24 AM PDT by Timeout (I hate MediaCrats!)
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To: MEG33
They TALKED to the Imams; asking them to keep the communities calm. They did NOT tell them they were going to pull of the raids.
1,452 posted on 08/10/2006 2:36:38 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: onyx
FNC reporting Michael Chertoff (SP?) is to give a presser in about 2 hours

The next shift can to over on this thread .. I need sleep badly
1,453 posted on 08/10/2006 2:36:50 AM PDT by Mo1 (Bolton- "No one has explained how you negotiate a ceasefire with terrorists")
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To: Timeout

And I wouldn't bet against you. LOL


1,454 posted on 08/10/2006 2:37:11 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: Allegra


Other than the end of the world on August 22...

Take care sweet you. I am going to my couch.


1,455 posted on 08/10/2006 2:37:16 AM PDT by onyx (Deport the trolls --- send them back to DU)
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To: MEG33
I hope so..What is this about informing the imams before the raids..Good Grief!

That's what the scotland yard guy said. The only way it makes sense is if they had the imams tapped and they wanted to trace the calls to the terrorists to try to get locations on as many as possible.

1,456 posted on 08/10/2006 2:37:34 AM PDT by Dosa26 (p-q4)
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To: mtbopfuyn

I would assume it could be done.

In Norway there is about 115 000 muslims, some 2 percent of the population.


1,457 posted on 08/10/2006 2:37:45 AM PDT by Eurotwit (WI)
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To: backhoe; Velveeta; All

Thank you backhoe for those links.
Also, here's a ping for you:

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OFF TOPIC - Thanks Velveeta for pointing to this article:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SP248010.htm

"Militant group founder under house arrest in Pakistan"
10 Aug 2006 05:49:43 GMT
Source: Reuters
Printable view | Email this article | RSS [-] Text [+]

(Adds India's reaction, background)
By Kamran Haider

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "ISLAMABAD, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Pakistani authorities have put the founder and former head of the Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group under house arrest in the eastern city of Lahore, a spokesman for the Islamic charity he now runs said on Thursday.
Hafiz Mohammad Saeed resigned almost five years ago from Lashkar-e-Taiba, the group suspected of involvement in the Indian rail blasts of July 11 that killed over 180 people, to become head of a charity called Jamaat-ud-Dawa, regarded as its sister organisation.
The United States has designated both as terrorist organisations.
"They informed us last night that Hafiz could not leave his residence and this restriction is for one month," Yahya Mujahid, Jamaat-ud-Dawa's spokesman told Reuters.
He said the charity had been banned from all public activities.
After joining a U.S.-led global war on terrorism following the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, Pakistan put the leaders of several militant organisations under house arrest. Saeed has been put under house arrest several times before, but he has been operating freely for the past few years.
Pakistan's reluctance to act more strongly against these groups probably stems from the military Inter-Services Intelligence agency's history of support for their activities, according to analysts.
Mujahid said police had been stationed at Saeed's residence and police had also cancelled permission for Jamaat-ud-Dawa to hold a rally in Lahore on August 12."


1,458 posted on 08/10/2006 2:38:26 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: Mo1

can to over on this thread = can take over on this thread


1,459 posted on 08/10/2006 2:38:26 AM PDT by Mo1 (Bolton- "No one has explained how you negotiate a ceasefire with terrorists")
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To: Timeout
The fact is, of course, that both the Truman and Eisenhower Administrations, in order to push their enormous armaments programs through Congress and to justify the continuation of the cold war, have felt compelled to resort to the device of keeping the American people in a state of alarm over some alleged menace of Soviet or Communist origin.

This argument carried no weight with the Leftist Romantic who admired the Soviet Union for its rebellious and revolutionary image. The Soviet Union was a threat, as Truman, Eisenhower, Reagan and all rational Americans knew.

1,460 posted on 08/10/2006 2:38:29 AM PDT by stripes1776
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