Posted on 08/10/2006 6:01:33 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Terrorists were in the "final stages" of a plot to simultaneously blow up as many as 10 jets leaving Britain for the U.S., sending the planes and thousands of passengers into the Atlantic Ocean, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Thursday.
British and Pakistani authorities teamed up to thwart the attacks, and 24 men were arrested in overnight raids in Britain, authorities said.
An undercover British agent infiltrated the group, giving the authorities intelligence on the alleged plan, several U.S. government officials said.
The men had not bought plane tickets, the officials said, but they were in the process of perusing the Internet to find flights to various cities that had similar departure times.
Two of the suspects recently traveled to Pakistan and later received money wired from there, senior U.S. government sources said.
Among those arrested were a Muslim charity worker and a Heathrow Airport employee with an all-area access pass, according to Britain's Channel 4.
The suspects were planning to stage a test run within a couple of days, said a U.S. intelligence official.
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So much for airport security.
I dumped Tums for Prilosec (works like a charm), so I am good to go I guess.
Think of a binary explosion as a case of beer and a dozen eggs. No problem sniffing that baby.
Sounds lethal to me, but more to humans than to the metallic structure of the plane.
"I had a bad experience at work about seven years ago with peroxide (10%) and H2SO4.
To this day, I'm the only one who knows about it.
Shhhh........
Now everyone refers to you as the Blond who smells bad ...
:-)
Can you imagine if those S.O.B. Islam-o-wacks put that much effort into doing something constructive for mankind?
Think nail polish remover and bleached blondes.
Yeah and make sure to keep it nice and hot.
No, but according to Mythbusters, Diet Coke and Mentos might be able to do so ;-).
Yep ... not going to sniff out either of them ... sure ...
Have you ever gone theough the sniffer booth ?
This was the same stuff used in the London bus blasts. It decapitated the buses.
Yep - it impresseses the hell out of people who don't realize that a fountain of Coke will not bring down a plane...
But so far that idiot who thought he could light an electrical fuse with a match was the close as we get as far as the amateur terrorists go.
It is they who provide the motive. We must focus on removing the motive -- it is the only area to which we have given no attention. "
You have hit the proverbial nail on the head. And further I submit that to do nothing about it, is dereliction of duty.
It is time to "ROLL"
:)Easy Does It:)
How many remember the TERROR IN THE SKIES story that came out in a magazine in July 2004 and later in a book? It was a womens account of a group of Arab looking men on Northwest Airlines flight #327 that gave passenger and crew the fright of their life. Could that have been a dry run?
Read it again here;
http://www.womenswallstreet.com/columns/column.aspx?aid=578
Whatsa' WOT ?
" and are damaging the WOT"
Sorry for using acronyms, WOT = war on terrorism.
Doh...
You know that is the rocket fuel for large, liquid-fuelled ICBM's, don't you? The old Titan II rocket and a number of Soviet ICBM's (notably the big SS-18) used these two rocket fuels.
However, both UDMH and IRFNA are extremely toxic substances, not only highly explosive but also highly corrosive, too. That's why the USAF phased out the Titan II as part of the START arms reduction treaty, and the Russians are quickly phasing out the SS-18 in favor of solid-fuel ICBM's.
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