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."
No Sh*t! Like get out the latex gloves! LOL!
hogwyld (641 posts) Thu Aug-10-06 04:08 PM Response to Reply #10 14. Are you some sort of Islamophobe? What's your solution? Extermination of Muslims? Get real! You've bought into the * regime's propaganda that Islam = Bad, 'merka = good. We've killed a hell of a lot more people, and it's mighty convenient that this happened right after our nice win against the neocon lieberman.
Meanwhile over at DU
"Even if she's a GIRL?? LOL!"
LOL...
It is so great to be able to discuss things like this with people like y'all and have fun with each other while we're doing it.
I'm still surprised that she didn't give me a swift swat, though...(as of right now)
All that needs to be said is if Kerry was President thousands would now be dead.
Be careful. I've heard that prairie's right uppercut packs a wallop. ;)
BS! were the wiretaps legal? hmmm? /sarc
"It's time we recognized the nature of the conflict. It's total war and we are all involved. Nobody on our side is exempted because of age, gender, or handicap. The Islamofacists have stolen childhood from the world." [FReeper Retief]
Yep, and defuse some of the tension of the day. I could never swat at AFPhys, 'cuz I'm just a warm, loveable fuzzball!
((((AFPhys))))
See? :^D
But don't you go calling ME a 'girl!')........hehe......
Great to 'see' you Meek!
Brought to you by the RELIGION OF [hacking you into] PIECE[s]
I'm glad to have spent a little time with both of you loveable fuzzballs today!
(Time for me to stop FReeping for tonight... My keyboard "spacebar" has quit working, and I've had to cut and paste every "space" I've written tonight and I have written a tome in a couple private messages! This is getting very tiring. Time for a new keyboard, I guess!)
RELIGION OF PIECES |
Well, you got me. I don't have any arms or legs to throw around.
I did my undergraduate work at Montana State. We had less than 250 foreign students then, and according to recent numbers we had 360-odd from 60 countries last year.
20 applying from Egypt alone, all male, should sound alarm bells for everyone involved.
You did it already! Do you want me to 'enlarge' her?
Quick one
IM & GW
- 544x150 - 15K -
A bit tall
text limits width (544 on animated .gifs)
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It could be cropped at bottom and both sides - then resized to 544 wide at GW
That would automatically enlarge her
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I have a Hillary project in mind
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All right.
I am about 5 hrs from the Twin Cities at the point where Iowa/Minnesota/Wisconsin come together. 3 weeks ago, the local Walmart was bought out of Tracphones and a specific brand of hairdryer. The 2 Middle Eastern men, one older, one a teen, who bought them wanted more "before we go back to Michigan". The helpful store manager then called another Walmart to check if they had more phones/hairdryers and they did, so the men were given directions there. A few days earlier, the Onalaska Walmart was also bought out of the phones.
I was told this by an associate who observed part of this transaction, including the manager checking the inventory list for the hair dryers. This was reported to the FBI within days of the event.
We refrained from posting any of this or even discussing it, except to report it to the FBI, since there had been other reports of large phone purchases and we didn't want to either panic people or give the perps a heads up. Those of us who knew about this have been in dread for the past few weeks, waiting for a shoe to drop.
I believe this is huge and covers the USA.
Bears reposting. Thank you, rl.
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