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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: mware

Probably someone in his traitorous party.


1,881 posted on 08/10/2006 5:35:21 AM PDT by Ron in Acreage (VOTE DEMOCRAT--TERRORISTS ARE COUNTING ON IT)
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To: RobFromGa
Dream on Rob. I am sure we will be getting a lecture all too soon about how it's just a few radicals we really don't have to worry.<p.
We are the New Media people who want the truth will soon start coming here first if they already are not.
1,882 posted on 08/10/2006 5:36:00 AM PDT by rodguy911 (Support The New media, Ticket the Drive-bys, --America-The land of the Free because of the Brave-)
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To: patriciaruth

Drink milk...Does the same thing and good for your bones.


1,883 posted on 08/10/2006 5:36:29 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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To: Sacajaweau

That raises an interesting question. Why did the uncle of the student found in Minnesota, Eslam Ibrahim Mohammed El-Dessouki, call the FBI instead of their embassy? Signal?

http://www.startribune.com/462/story/604853.html

Hamvi Kassab, (AKA HANDY A KASSAB, HAMDY A KASSAB), a Minneapolis grocer, told KSTP-TV that he is El-Dessouki's uncle and that agents arrested the man at Kassab's St. Louis Park home. Kassab said he called the FBI after learning about the search.

//

I found the alternative spellings of the uncles name, trying to find more info.


1,884 posted on 08/10/2006 5:36:34 AM PDT by maggief
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To: Sacajaweau
and may I add, two of them were found in NJ.

In the 911 attack, one of the flights came out of Newark.

1,885 posted on 08/10/2006 5:37:30 AM PDT by mware (Americans in armchairs doing the job of the media.)
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To: JCEccles
And the Manila plot to destroy 12 US jumbo airliners in flight. And the Khobar Towers debacle. And the bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. And the bombing of the the US embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. And the conspiracy to blow up LAX Airport. And the plot to blow up the USS Sullivans in port at Aden, Yemen. And the bombing of the USS Cole . . . .

And 911 which was 5 years in the making.....
1,886 posted on 08/10/2006 5:37:32 AM PDT by Kozak (Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
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To: Peach

This plot was orginally scheduled to take place in Dec. 2003. The Jihadi poster EOM (aka Al Qaeda member Adam Gadahn) was boasting about this "rain" plot on various anonymous boards. Many Freepers were following this plot on the TM thread. Here's two archive posts from another board. EOM/Gadahn was the poster who bragged about 9/11 the night before it happened on the old MSNBC bbs:

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:dEUoCMjR3WgJ:www.land-of-the-free.org/printthread.php%3Ft%3D15409%26page%3D5%26pp%3D40+eom+falcon+amerikka&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=3

EOM
as I tell you before
Mon Dec 22 2003 7:01:29 pm
217.110.209.212

events will begin in London and then you shall see I tell you earlier this week, events will happen in London and then not much longer you will see


EOM
you infidels certainly are an impatient lot
Tue Dec 23 2003 12:41:47 pm
217.110.209.212

you stupid Amerikkkans thousands of you shall perish with the coming "rain" Enjoy what time you have left, Allah will not be much longer before he delivers the next great victory for Islam


1,887 posted on 08/10/2006 5:37:53 AM PDT by jimbo123
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To: CheneyChick

Yet these are the type of people England and this country keep importing. And if they are illegal aliens, then there are special perks for them. After "Black Hawk Down," for example, this country imported scores of Somalis.


1,888 posted on 08/10/2006 5:38:10 AM PDT by Dante3
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To: stopem
Yeah for sure. Too bad it's not time to stop worrying about oil spills in the gulf and time to start drilling! Sometimes you wonder what it will take for the rats to concentrate on energy security.
1,889 posted on 08/10/2006 5:38:10 AM PDT by rodguy911 (Support The New media, Ticket the Drive-bys, --America-The land of the Free because of the Brave-)
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To: mware

I agree.

imho,

The NYTIMES should be sold and the proceeds given to all the victims of ISLAMIC TERROR who are USA citizens.


1,890 posted on 08/10/2006 5:38:37 AM PDT by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
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To: RobFromGa

Perhaps they generate some heat.

But insufficient to destroy a plane, I think.

LOL.


1,891 posted on 08/10/2006 5:39:21 AM PDT by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
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To: patriciaruth

I always put things like my shampoo in my checked luggage in a ziplock incase it leaks. Wonder if they are going to confinscate my chapstick.


1,892 posted on 08/10/2006 5:40:07 AM PDT by CougarGA7 (There are no trophies for winning wars. Only consequences for losing them.)
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To: mware

Nice to have a true leader in the White House.

NO LEAKS INDEED.

Yea.


1,893 posted on 08/10/2006 5:40:12 AM PDT by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
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To: cerberus

Whatever idiot makes the decisionto put Clark on ought to be fired.

Clark should be ran out of civilized society naked, tarred and feathered and in abject shame.


1,894 posted on 08/10/2006 5:41:39 AM PDT by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
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To: Fawn
blow them up somewhere

. Post of the day so far.Keep it simple

1,895 posted on 08/10/2006 5:41:54 AM PDT by rodguy911 (Support The New media, Ticket the Drive-bys, --America-The land of the Free because of the Brave-)
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To: Quix
Did you hear Greg on the President forcefully telling the intelligence heads that THERE WILL BE NO LEAKS.

This investigation has been going on for MONTHS

1,896 posted on 08/10/2006 5:41:58 AM PDT by mware (Americans in armchairs doing the job of the media.)
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To: Quix

It is now apparent that NO DEMOCRATS were briefed on this secret investigation and the surveillence tactics used to thwart these attacks.


1,897 posted on 08/10/2006 5:42:40 AM PDT by Ron in Acreage (VOTE DEMOCRAT--TERRORISTS ARE COUNTING ON IT)
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To: All

BTW, GALLOWAY, CAN SHUT THE HELL UP NOW.


1,898 posted on 08/10/2006 5:43:18 AM PDT by mware (Americans in armchairs doing the job of the media.)
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To: Aquinasfan

Agreed. . . . but along with their puppet masters and the likes of their funders . . . George S comes to mind.


1,899 posted on 08/10/2006 5:43:26 AM PDT by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
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To: Jotmo

I'll bet they'll let on reading materials. When I fly (and I try to do it as little as possible now), that usually includes the local paper, Wall Street Journal, National Review and American Spectator.

Of course, they'd probably confiscate the last two!


1,900 posted on 08/10/2006 5:44:09 AM PDT by BikerJoe
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