'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

[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.

[Cindy]

Ok, I don't know if these cases involved hijacking over water, but here's a couple of fellows (not associated with each other as far as I know from cyber travels) that should be found.

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Here Mugniyah's Wanted Poster:
http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/termugniyah.htm

Here's the most current photo purportedly to be Mugniyah:
http://www.waronline.org/terror/bin%20laden/mugniyah-2.jpg


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Here is Lya's Wanted Poster:
http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/seekinfo/lya.htm

Here's more information on Lya:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Jamal+Lya%22&hl=en&lr=&filter=0

[Sacajaweau]

I'd say you're right. These usually come out two weeks prior to an event.

[Cindy]

QUOTE:

http://osint.internet-haganah.com/archives/000531.html

August 10, 2006

"it was really strange"

Love this quote, from the guy across the street from one of the raided
houses in the UK. Did he call the police? No, it appears not.

Thursday August 10, 2006 - Guardian:

"It was sold overnight. One day it was up for sale and the next it was
gone. I think two men moved in the following weekend. No furniture was
moved or anything, it was really strange."
Mr Weir said he believed two north African men had been living in the flat
for about a month.

He said: "They were in their mid-thirties. They were dressed quite normally
in T-shirts and trousers. I haven't seen them in the last couple of weeks.
There is not often anyone there at that house."

Posted on 10 August 2006 @ 19:23 GMT

[Fred Nerks]

"Check this out Fred!"


I am! Only another two thousand or so to go...Our TV news reported last night that the monitoring of this group had been going on for nine months or so, the plan was to explode the 'planes over cities.

Anyone on earth who doesn't know what islam is by now, is either stupid, wilfully ignorant or a complete and utter coward.

[Sacajaweau]

Imagine OWNING a bottle of Chanel No. 5

[Fred Nerks]

"How many Muslims work in the airport and have easy access to the aircraft in their various positions, as well as to the passengers..."

I shudder each time I think of it, in Oz, we have a felllow in court on terrorism charges right now, who was a former baggage handler at an international airport.

[singfreedom]

You know, I'm normally a very caring person (a retired Special Education teacher), but I'm with you on the "unconcerned mass destruction" theory--only I'd go have my hair done.

[DollyCali]

praying for your safe return.. bummer on timing/location

There is win/win

looks like you found lose/lose

[jan in Colorado]

This is bigger than we know!

[BossLady]

I would drink my bottle of Chanel No.5 before throwing it away....LOL!

[Guenevere]

LOL....Ooops

[Kozak]

Come on, I've practiced ER medicine for over 20 years and have NEVER seen a case of Benadryl induced seizures in a child. It's a very safe drug when given in the therapeutic dose range, and takes a large overdose to cause toxicity.

[Kozak]

Because thats the PROFILE of the bombers up to now. Sure it's possible, and if they want to screen every ME male from 12 to 80 it's fine with me. BUT for now the money is in the group thats proven itself a risk time after time.

[BurbankKarl]

[Kozak]

I know and was going to alude to that idiot rule myself.

[Guenevere]

Not having read the whole thread yet....

..it was probably part of her makeup kit.

I usually keep my Clinique..moisturizer in my little makeup bag.

Why would she need it with her..

.....I think most women keep their cosmetics close by :))

...you don't want to be caught stranded without your makeup!

[Don Joe]

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>>>>>I know that now they're saying they were tracking this situation for months, but I don't buy it.

I agree with most of your comment, but this. I do believe they've been tracking it - but also having to keep the information out of the hands of traitors such as the New York Times.
[...]

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I can accept that they had their eyes on some (possibly even all) of the scumbags -- but I do NOT accept the idea that *something* didn't grab 'em by surprise in the wee hours of last night. SOMETHING happened that put them into instant pucker-mode, FAST, with NO warning. Something they did NOT expect to happen last night. Otherwise, they wouldn't have needed to wake GWB and MC (and all the others who got "the phone call" in the middle of the night). They would have already been up, waiting for whatever to happen. For that matter, strike that -- they would have been sleeping, because the perps would have been taken down before it became necessary to go into ultra-quickstep mode.

[BurbankKarl]

well, not anymore...

unless they come out with airport safe stuff.....which they probably will....

[Don Joe]

I wonder when the fanatical muslims hanging out in the mosques will be ejected from both Britain and the U.S.?

Call me cynical if you like, but I'm gonna venture a guess that the answer is "never". It ain't gonna happen, period. We're not the country we were in the 1940s. We're soft, dumbed-down, obsesed with not pissing off our enemies, rather than having victory over them. "Victory" is a dirty word. We're no longer willing to WIN a war. We only fight to stalemate.

Before anyone jumps me over that, think it through. Yeah, we got Saddam, but "getting Saddam" does not equate to "victory". Compare the current stalemate in Iraq with the postwar scenario in Japan and Germany. THEN, we went about things in an entirely different way. We made damn sure that the ENEMY knew that he was DEFEATED, and that he answered to US, and us alone. That broken sword on the deck of the battleship was more than symbolic. It was the end of a regime, from top to bottom. There was a new boss in town, and he didn't worry about "offending" the vanquished.

And if anyone thinks that sort of treatment is "cruel" and "insensitive", well, look at what happened to Germany and Japan AFTER we "gave 'em the treatment." They seem to have fared quite well.

No, we're not going to do what you suggest. We're going to keep muddling along, and the end state is not likely to be very pretty. I am NOT an optimist.

[Guenevere]

I think you're on the right track.