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London - Man arrested in airline bombing plot released
AFP via Babelfish translation | August 11, 2006

Posted on 08/11/2006 1:46:49 PM PDT by HAL9000

ALARM - Release of one of supposed terrorist

LONDON - One of the 24 stopped people Thursday in Great Britain within the framework of supposed plot aiming at exploding airliners bound for the United States was given in freedom Friday and no charge was retained against it, announced the police force.



TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: captured; london; londonairlineplot

1 posted on 08/11/2006 1:46:50 PM PDT by HAL9000
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To: HAL9000

I wonder if this was one of the initial 19 that were named or the 5 that weren't?


2 posted on 08/11/2006 1:49:01 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ......Help the "Pendleton 8' and families -- http://www.freerepublic.com/~normsrevenge/)
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To: HAL9000

Somebody better watch closely as he scurries off to to inform the iman.


3 posted on 08/11/2006 1:50:58 PM PDT by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
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To: HAL9000

Am I correct that they referred to this person as "it"?


4 posted on 08/11/2006 1:52:26 PM PDT by TXBubba ( Democrats: If they don't abort you then they will tax you to death.)
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To: HAL9000

Hope he has microscopic locator under his skin. He'll show up again with another bomb.


5 posted on 08/11/2006 1:52:59 PM PDT by lilylangtree
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To: TXBubba

Babelfish has problems with personal pronouns.


6 posted on 08/11/2006 1:57:15 PM PDT by HAL9000 (Happy 10th Anniversary FreeRepublic.com - Est. Sept. 23, 1996 - Thanks Jim!)
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To: TXBubba
Am I correct that they referred to this person as "it"?

It was from Bablefish. A lot of languages use "he" or "she" for inanimate objects, which get translated into English as "it" unless you know it is something or someone with a sex.

7 posted on 08/11/2006 1:59:02 PM PDT by KarlInOhio ("Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper" - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: TXBubba
"Am I correct that they referred to this person as "it"? "
How else to refer to "it" after "it" has been spayed/neutered?
8 posted on 08/11/2006 2:00:10 PM PDT by GSlob
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To: HAL9000

PC nonsense ... "due process" for terrorist dogs


9 posted on 08/11/2006 2:00:46 PM PDT by GeronL (http://www.mises.org/story/1975 <--no such thing as a fairtax)
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To: GeronL

Did you ever consider he might not have been involved and was simply caught up in the sweep?


10 posted on 08/11/2006 2:02:23 PM PDT by COEXERJ145 (Free Republic is Currently Suffering a Pandemic of “Bush Derangement Syndrome.”)
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To: KarlInOhio; GSlob; HAL9000

Thanks. That explains it. Otherwise one could picture a lot of things for "it". grin.


11 posted on 08/11/2006 2:02:59 PM PDT by TXBubba ( Democrats: If they don't abort you then they will tax you to death.)
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To: COEXERJ145

They've been watching them for months according to reports I read, how could they make that mistake?


12 posted on 08/11/2006 2:07:46 PM PDT by GeronL (http://www.mises.org/story/1975 <--no such thing as a fairtax)
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To: GeronL
Not a mistake as in misidentification but the person was simply picked up because he were there when the sweep occurred. When it was determined not to be involved, he was released.
13 posted on 08/11/2006 2:09:53 PM PDT by COEXERJ145 (Free Republic is Currently Suffering a Pandemic of “Bush Derangement Syndrome.”)
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To: COEXERJ145
He was probably the guy who bought the disposable cameras and Gatorade.

dang them! /sarcasm

14 posted on 08/11/2006 2:14:38 PM PDT by GeronL (http://www.mises.org/story/1975 <--no such thing as a fairtax)
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To: HAL9000
I saw a computer chip referred to as a 'who' in media yesterday.
15 posted on 08/11/2006 2:14:54 PM PDT by gcruse (http://gcruse.typepad.com)
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To: COEXERJ145

Could you consider that, "It" may have been the informer?


16 posted on 08/11/2006 2:41:14 PM PDT by buck61
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To: buck61

Yep, that's another possibility.


17 posted on 08/11/2006 2:43:02 PM PDT by COEXERJ145 (Free Republic is Currently Suffering a Pandemic of “Bush Derangement Syndrome.”)
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