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London - Police statement on airline bombing plot - "mass murder on an unimaginable scale"
Reuters ^ | August 10, 2006 | Paul Stephenson

Posted on 08/10/2006 3:00:54 AM PDT by HAL9000

Police statement on airline bombing plot

LONDON (Reuters) - Following is the full text of a statement issued by London Deputy Commissioner, Paul Stephenson on Thursday morning:

"We are confident that we have disrupted a plan by terrorists to cause untold death and destruction and commit mass murder.

The Commissioner has been fully briefed and he is at New Scotland Yard today. He and I want to pay tribute to officers from the Met's Anti-Terrorist Branch and the security services for the work they have undertaken to disrupt these activities.

We believe that the terrorists' aim was to smuggle explosives onto airplanes in hand luggage and to detonate these in flight.

We also believe that the intended targets were flights from the UK to the USA.

Overnight we have arrested 21 people. The majority of those arrests have been in London but we have also made arrests in Thames Valley and Birmingham. We are currently searching a number of addresses.

We are grateful to our colleagues in other force areas for their support.

As the operation got under way we spoke to community leaders to make them aware that a major anti-terrorist operation was taking place but without giving specific details about locations. This extensive dialogue will continue throughout the operation.

We would like to reassure the public that this operation was carried out with public safety upper most in our minds. This is a major operation, which will inevitably be lengthy and complex. The UK is now at the highest possible level of alert.

We will consider the threat in its wider sense and take whatever action is necessary to protect people in London and throughout the country.

Measures have already been put in place to restrict hand luggage taken onto aircraft. This will inevitably cause significant delay and we ask people to remain calm, patient and vigilant at this very difficult time.

Put simply this was a plot to commit mass murder on an unimaginable scale."



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To: P.O.E.
But was what she witnessed only a dry run for an operation delayed until now?

That's what she thought. If Snopes said this is false, then I would saw that Snopes has been discredited. I read that article when she wrote it. It was utterly chilling. And it's been awhile, so this thing has been in the planning for quite some time. I don't know that it was planning for this exact attack we're hearing about today, but I have no doubt that it was research for an attack at some point.

281 posted on 08/10/2006 7:29:15 AM PDT by twigs
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To: mathluv

No, she was a passenger.


282 posted on 08/10/2006 7:30:09 AM PDT by twigs
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To: Outrance

Yeah. The only upside to this stuff is it may give the Pubs an edge in the elections. I happen to be a little nervous about the Dems winning in '08 and what that will mean for our security.


283 posted on 08/10/2006 7:30:18 AM PDT by Paved Paradise
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To: Lurker

Yes, and they are going to begin profiling of all men with black pants and suspenders and straw hats.


284 posted on 08/10/2006 7:31:23 AM PDT by Paved Paradise
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To: vimto

Please freep the Globe and Mail online discussion. The moonbats are squawking about the evil Bushitler. Yikes, 25% of my country's citizens are raving lunatics. Someone has gravely failed our education system.


285 posted on 08/10/2006 7:31:30 AM PDT by canadianally
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To: tomnbeverly

ALL MOSLEMS NEED TO BE DEPORTED FROM THE US ..Time for PC talk is over..We MUST DEMAND THIS !


286 posted on 08/10/2006 7:32:02 AM PDT by sonic109
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To: spectre

I thought their plan was to blow them up over the Atlantic...did I miss something?


287 posted on 08/10/2006 7:32:47 AM PDT by dinoparty
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To: HAL9000

A co-worker DUmmie is in denial. This morning she tried to brush off the report as "a bunch of amateurs, like those kids in Florida who claimed to be Al Qaeda." The rest of us smirked.


288 posted on 08/10/2006 7:33:11 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

I TOTALLY AGREE..NO ONE GETS ELECTED UNLESS THEY AGREE..We , the PEOPLE , need to mobilize and slam the politicians (who will get us all killed by their inaction)


289 posted on 08/10/2006 7:33:12 AM PDT by sonic109
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To: happinesswithoutpeace
As the operation got under way we spoke to community leaders to make them aware that a major anti-terrorist operation was taking place but without giving specific details about locations.

What's the point? To tip them off?

290 posted on 08/10/2006 7:34:02 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
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To: Aquinasfan

Good, tell you a hole co worker to get on a flight to England then .


291 posted on 08/10/2006 7:34:05 AM PDT by sonic109
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To: canadianally

"Please freep the Globe and Mail online discussion..."

With pleasure.


292 posted on 08/10/2006 7:34:44 AM PDT by vimto (Blighty Awaken!)
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To: CedarDave

I'm glad to see FoxNews finally using the Internet to stream their broadcasts. I hope this is a permanent feature.


293 posted on 08/10/2006 7:35:30 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: sonic109
ALL MOSLEMS NEED TO BE DEPORTED FROM THE US ..Time for PC talk is over..We MUST DEMAND THIS !

On what basis? Does this include American citizens?

You know you can't do that, don't you?

294 posted on 08/10/2006 7:35:41 AM PDT by sinkspur (Today, we settled all family business.)
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To: twigs

This attack was originally scheduled for Dec. 2003 and was disrupted at the time. But this operation is much larger than the original one that was disrupted.


295 posted on 08/10/2006 7:36:43 AM PDT by jimbo123
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To: dinoparty
That was what was said - but maybe that was so not as to frazzle the brains of the tenderhearted.

"Don't panic Captain Mannering, don't PANIC, DON'T PANIC!!!!! They don't like cold steel up 'em!" (Dad's army - great Brit sitcom of days gone by).
296 posted on 08/10/2006 7:37:35 AM PDT by vimto (Blighty Awaken!)
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To: vimto
One thing I love about the UK is that no matter what PC there is in society we still have our Special Forces and they don't mess around.

Back in the '70s, my English mother used to complain about the number of Pakistanis that England was letting into the country. I thought she was racist, due to my fine gov't education.

Ah well, live and learn.

297 posted on 08/10/2006 7:37:48 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
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To: TomGuy

The link(s)were posted on last evenings ME thread. Don't know how long they have been active.


298 posted on 08/10/2006 7:38:14 AM PDT by CedarDave
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To: woollyone
I've gone through this before on this forum and was pilloried by some who claim to have experience and expertise in all things aeronautical. I have neither.

1) Explosion near wing
2) Erratic motions by the aircraft
3) Aircraft begins nosedive as parts separate
4) Aircraft crashes into ground

These folks were so close, that the Captain of the vessel was able to position the boat over the wreckage of the tail assembly that sank in the bay. They remained on station until the NYPD Harbor Unit arrived to take over and supervise the raising of the assembly.
299 posted on 08/10/2006 7:38:21 AM PDT by Roccus
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To: Outrance

People should be really scared. On Bennett this morning, Horowitz was talking about Soros (traitor) and imagine Sorox pulling the puppet strings on someone like Kerry.


300 posted on 08/10/2006 7:40:06 AM PDT by mel
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