Qatar Airways Plane Attempted Hijack Thwarted

Sky News citing Al Jazerra

[humblegunner]

A lone dude with a rope???

I hate it when the opposition uses high tech like that.

[SampleMan]

Could be that this is not related, or that it was rushed because of the expectation that "interrogations" would bring a knock to their door before they could carry it out.

[DoctorMichael]

.....................9/11, 8/10, 7/9?.........................

Interesting progression of numbers.

[GraniteStateConservative]

That movie would have been over quickly if the plane lowered the cabin temperature to as cold as it could manage.

[Allegra]

A lone dude with a rope???

He heard that the flight was serving hot sauce made in NEW YORK CITY!

[300magnum]

I bet it was an "assault rope". ;-)

[The Sons of Liberty]

Looks like possibly 8-10, not 8-22, is the date.

Today may just be a practice run.

[steveo]

This is a real comment from the Sacramento Bee concerning the terror alert:

"dohmixer at 7:04 AM PST Thursday, August 10, 2006 wrote:
Boogyman alert
Just a prelude of the alerts to be coming at us as the elections near and the repugs are in fear of losing their seats."

[oldleft]

I don't think there's anything to it. The muslims go by a lunar calendar. We've also left out 3/11 and the Bali bombings (October, but I can't remember the day.) Those three dates are also out of sequence. it should be 9/11, 7/9, 8/10.

[OPS4]

THANK GOD, For George W's War on Terror, or we would have more choas and destruction in our own Country.

Vote Republican or perish!

Ops4

[sarasota]

Was today actually the day they planned to "pull the trigger"?

[tumblindice]

LOL! Man I hate snakes.

[oldleft]

LOL! Good point. Or they could just drop to 12,000 and depressurize.

[Tulsa Ramjet]

"Looks like possibly 8-10, not 8-22, is the date."

That means the brits pre-empted the Iranian leaders pronouncement. He will probably come out today and refute any knowedge and condemn the attackers.

Aide: "Just got off the telly, no go on Operation Feet Wet."

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: "Holy Mother of Scorpions!! Can't those Paks get anything right? Double their dues and cancel their pool priviledges!!"

[Lawrence of Arabia]

Qatar Air is a quality, comfortable airline. Good food.

[sarasota]

Or even a diversion from Plan B.

[divine_moment_of_facts]

Maybe the terrorists were planning it for 8/11 and it was thwarted today... Lets see.. the number of the days between 8/11 and 8/22 is... 11 days... 11 days of all out Islamic fascist strikes?

[RepubRep]

Didn't Jean Francoise Kerry state that terrorists threats were over exaggerated? Glad that dickhead did not become president.

Oh but the followers are saying it is because we "stuck a finger in a hornets nest and now they are everywhere." Talk about head in the sand . . . .

[Allegra]

Didn't the terrorists learn not to mess with Jordon? Witness the late Zarquawi.

Well, actually, that piece of filth was brought down by the good ol' U.S. forces.

[sandbar]

>>>Could just be a fairly harmless lunatic. Lots of them around.>>>

True. I was talking to my husband this morning about the terror plot in UK. He said "who did it", I said "Crazy people". He said "Got lots of them here", I said, "Yep, but these are organized crazy people".