Separately, they're no problem.

Does Amajhinedad (sp?) know something about August 22?

Did they get them all. If there was a plot in the UK and anjother in Italy, what about the rest of Europe?

They're all over the place. We want the people who supply "stuff" and the intelligence to us it. Those are the hardest to get. It looks like Paki Tel got one. There's more. This is a paid "private Muslim army". Obviously, the brainy higher ups get cash...the dumb suicide folks get "trash".

All Guys.

You can make them easily.

"The terrorism threat has been exaggerated". J.F'n. Kerry

DUH... 'ya think?!

DUH... Yeah, I thought that within five minutes of this think hitting the news. We heard trom Italy. Not a peep out of the other countries, even if to deny it.

In control? Anyone, anytime. The explosives are/would have been made from readily available common products. It's when they're mixed together and then given a spark that they become explosive.

From the Bernard Lewis article in WSJ: "What is the significance of Aug. 22? This year, Aug. 22 corresponds, in the Islamic calendar, to the 27th day of the month of Rajab of the year 1427. This, by tradition, is the night when many Muslims commemorate the night flight of the prophet Muhammad on the winged horse Buraq, first to "the farthest mosque," usually identified with Jerusalem, and then to heaven and back (c.f., Koran XVII.1). This might well be deemed an appropriate date for the apocalyptic ending of Israel and if necessary of the world. It is far from certain that Mr. Ahmadinejad plans any such cataclysmic events precisely for Aug. 22. But it would be wise to bear the possibility in mind.

A passage from the Ayatollah Khomeini, quoted in an 11th-grade Iranian schoolbook, is revealing. 'I am decisively announcing to the whole world that if the world-devourers [i.e., the infidel powers] wish to stand against our religion, we will stand against their whole world and will not cease until the annihilation of all them. Either we all become free, or we will go to the greater freedom which is martyrdom. Either we shake one another's hands in joy at the victory of Islam in the world, or all of us will turn to eternal life and martyrdom. In both cases, victory and success are ours.'"

Interesting comment.
I have solved some of my most difficult (work) problems first thing in the morning while preparing for work.
The brain must be most efficient then.

The questions I think about are more fundamental:
What is the value to the U.S. of allowing muslim "students" into the U.S.?
What is the cost?
These are serious questions and I have never seen them asked, never mind answered.

Ditto for muslim "tourists".

How about this one?
What is the value of American citizenship?
If it can be so easily obtained through fraud by our darkest enemies, without fear of consequences or swift correction?
How can an oath or fealty be accepted as genuine one day and cancelled out the next by participating in anti-American demonstrations of the most virulent kind?

Is there not something very wrong when the most prized "right" of muslim "citizens" is the ability to mount the most hateful and violent attacks on the new country they have just "joined"?

Has anyone ever seen discussions along these lines?

Unless islam changes, and I don't expect for a moment that it will, the inevitable day will come when, due to government action, civil war or overwhelming popular initiative, all admissions into the country to muslims will be denied, and all overt anti-American activities will be instantly dealt with, with permanent loss of "citizenship" and permanent expulsion.

I just hope to live to see that day.

What seems to be going on is either more widespread activity or more reported activity.

In the last 2 weeks:

The Seattle shootings.
The Baltimore firebombing.
Multiple instances of huge purchases of pre-paid cell phones (which sounds like someone is collecting detonators to launch street blasts like those in Israel).
Pipe bombs found on cars in Portland (Oregon).
The UK jetliner plot.
The vanishing Egyptian "students".

So, I don't think the jetliner plot was the whole of anything. I think there is more out there, and I am not looking forward to the night of 22 August.

Anyone who isn't concerned just isn't paying attention.