[jdm]

Massachusetts State Police patrol with automatic weapons at Logan International Airport in Boston, Thursday, August 10.

[Howlin]

As sure as there's a God in Heaven, they got it from a

WIRETAP

Talk about a slap in the face to the liberals!

[ladyinred]

Interesting update. Thank God for Brit Intel that is all I can say.

[traditional1]

Notice how they very carefully did NOT mention NSA wire-taps? Don't Democrats to have it "explode in their faces", so to speak........

[groanup]

Are all pilots armed now? If there is an unarmed pilot shouldn't we know what plane he/she is flying so we can stay home?

[nmh]

"Allen stressed that the plans seemed designed to kill passengers, not crash into a city on the ground. "We have no evidence there was targeting of cities," said Allen, "This was an effort to destroy multiple aircraft in flight — not against any territory of the United States."

This I don't believe. A terrorist wants to kill as many people as possible - just as they did on 9/11. There is NO WAY in this world you can convince me that terrorist ONLY WANTED TO KILL THE PEOPLE ON THE PLANE in the MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN. Come on!

Of course cities were targeted. They want the most death for their plans and blowing up in the middle of the ocean would not accomplish that.

[Cali_Conservative03]

You mean intercepting communications and covert surveillance of terrosts actually works? Whoda thunk it.

[JOE6PAK]

But what about my OINTMENT?

[muawiyah]

This is the sort of thing the New York Times attempted to stop happening.

It's pretty clear they're working for the enemy now.

[nmh]

Just watching FOX news right now ... news flash ... announcing that an undercover British agent infiltrated a UK terrorist group that foiled the plan. WHY oh WHY announce THIS? Now that agent will be useless. Guess the ratings will compensate for that. Geesh! How stupid. Some things should NOT be reported.

[Interesting Times]

Lots of new informaton here.

Too much, perhaps...

[Chena]

Great post, jdm. Thank you!

[ChristianDefender]

Maybe they should also consider retaliatory plans to let the muzzies know that this time they wont get out clean...

[lonevoice]

"An alert the FBI and DHS sent out Thursday to state and local law enforcement agencies — which is classified "For Official Use Only" and was obtained by TIME — warns them that the peroxide-based explosives could also be employed in future attacks here."

Someone should have their azz handed to them for giving official security documents to the Times. Yeah, like that's gonna happen.

[TET1968]

" U.S. officials believe the 29 members were divided into multiple cells and planned to break into small groups to board the nine planes."

Do the math...9 planes.
Are 26 suspects enough to pull this off?

[NerdDad]

Bump to pass on in the morning.

[VOA]

bump

[TET1968]

"An alert the FBI and DHS sent out Thursday to state and local law enforcement agencies — which is classified "For Official Use Only" and was obtained by TIME"


How was it obtained by Time ?

[Right Wing Assault]

An alert the FBI and DHS sent out Thursday to state and local law enforcement agencies — which is classified "For Official Use Only" and was obtained by TIME

So, TIME is now "Official"?

[kvanbrunt2]

I'd like an opinion from someone who is an expert here on whether or not the volume of the explosive in the bottles could have taken out a passenger plane from a pack in the overhead compartment. experts only reply pls or ridicule i'm up for both.

[demsux]

The plot also appears to be a return to older terrorist tactics of trying to blow up an airplane in mid air, rather than turn the jet into a missile as the Sept. 11 attackers did. Allen stressed that the plans seemed designed to kill passengers, not crash into a city on the ground. "We have no evidence there was targeting of cities," said Allen, "This was an effort to destroy multiple aircraft in flight — not against any territory of the United States."

Blow those planes up over any urban area and thousands more would perish!