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.
Good luck and Godspeed.
Do they still serve alcohol? That always helps to ease the international flights! ;)
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Is there a North Korea connection?
The NK's timed their missile fit to detract from the deadline facing Iran on its nuclear ambitions. (When that didn't work, Hezbullah was brought in). Now I recall this:
Korean Air Flight 858 was a flight that flew from Abu Dhabi International Airport in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates to Gimpo Airport near Seoul, South Korea via Bangkok International Airport in Bangkok. On November 29, 1987, it mysteriously disappeared.Something to chew on.According to the South Korean authorities, the Boeing 707 took off from Abu Dhabi and was flying to Bangkok on the way to Seoul. Two passengers who departed from the plane at Abu Dhabi left a radio containing 350 grams of C-4 and liquor bottle containing cca 0.7 l of PLX explosives [also called "binary liquid explosives"] in an overhead rack on the airplane. The bomb exploded while the plane was over the Andaman Sea near Thailand. Radar contact was lost at the time of the explosion.
All 11 crew members and 104 passengers on Korean Air 858 were killed, making it the deadliest terrorist attack against South Korea.
Two North Korean agents were arrested by South Korean officials shortly after the bombing. One killed himself with a suicide pill but the other, Kim Hyon Hui, was captured before she herself could commit suicide. She told investigators that the bombing was ordered by Kim Il Sung’s son, Kim Jong-il.
I am heading to Janesville WI from Georgia-hubby transferred- sigh. I did the summer in Atlanta-hot-hot-hot and will experience my first Janesville winter-average temp 10 degree F soon. We will be down by the middle of November.
My liberal fishing buddy thinks the whole problem was caused by Bush deposing Saddam. 'Course, that doesn't take 9/11 into account, or the embassy bombings, or the Cole, etc., but that's what liberals think.
Too bad the West poured so much wealth into those countries over the years.
Best guesses in this case are it was Pakistan. As long as any country is willing to support terrorism they will always be a threat. Question is how big a threat.
Also those with addadicktome operations.
I was thinking there might be an Iran connection.
When did Iranian head wacko Ahmadinejad say he'd have a 'response' to US demands that he end uranium enrichment?
Wasn't sometime mid-to-late August?
Due to an immigration clerk who could not understand a B1 Visa, I was put in the holding pen with a lot of other questionable folks. Several Middle East types and woman wearing saris among them.
Of course this was in the mid eighties, before racial profiling was an issue.
Or maybe it was - and I was the token Anglo for the day.
Let's hope they have cleaned up their act since then.
As I recall, most of the folks working at that airport that I came into contact with were rude.
First spotting of political attack on TV:
Tim Roemer, 9/11 Commissioner (and Dem), on Fox attacking Bush because "we're still not safe".
It's just too depressing. On one hand they quibble over anything Bush DOES. Then, rather than be humbled when the threat is made apparent, they whine that he hasn't done enough.
It's time for Bush & Co. to drop the "civility" and repeatedly tell the American people how dangerous the libs are to our security.
There are two groups there...."Good" and "Evil".
I lurked at Dem Underground early this morning. I wanted to see their take on this story-the consensus seems to be there is no threat. Bush and Blair are creating a fake story to affect the coming elections. The term useful idiots comes to mind.
Sure sounds like it.
The term blithering idiots comes to my mind.
Pause a moment and take the following test:
In 1979, the U.S. embassy in Iran was taken over by:
(a) Norwegians from Ballard;
(b) Elvis;
(c) A tour bus full of 80-year-old women
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
In 1983, the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:
(a) A pizza delivery boy;
(b) Crazed feminists screeching that being able to throw a grenade
beyond its own burst radius was an unfair and sexist requirement
in basic training;
(c) Geraldo Rivera making up for a slow news day
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:
(a) Luca Brazzi, for not being given a part in "Godfather 2;"
(b) The Tooth Fairy;
(c) Butch and Sundance who had a few sticks of dynamite left over
from the train thing
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
In 1998, the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:
(a) Mr. Rogers;
(b) Hillary, to distract attention from Wee Willie's women problems;
(c) the WWF, to promote its next villain: "Mustapha the Merciless;"
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
October 12, 2000, 17 US sailors lost their lives on the USS Cole and this was done by:
a) That Purple Teletubbie
b) Gary Condit
c) LA Crips street gang
d) Muslim extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
December 2000 a person tries to light a shoe bomb on a commercial jetliner and this was done by:
a) Mother Theresa
b) an Italian guy from New York City named "Giacomo"
c) hard working Hispanic farm workers
d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked and destroyed by:
(a) Bugs Bunny,
(b) the Supreme Court of Florida trying to outdo their attempted
hijacking of the 2000 Presidential election;
(c) Mr. Bean
(d) Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
What makes you think a ME male aged 60 isn't a real threat?
High unemployment together with one's acceptance of his lot in life at age 60 is a recipe for suicide. Why not take a plane load of innocent people with you? /s
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