Posted on 08/12/2006 9:48:03 PM PDT by SleekMaid
SECURITY sources believe that a man arrested in last week’s anti- terror raids in Britain is Al-Qaeda’s leader in this country.
Home Office officials say that one of those arrested is suspected not only of masterminding the foiled plot to bring down up to nine transatlantic airliners, but also of involvement in other planned atrocities over the past few years.
They believe that he was instrumental in sending the ringleader of at least one previous British terror plot for training at a camp in Pakistan last year. He is described by counter-terrorist officials at MI5 as the senior figure in a British terror network involving Kashmiri, north African and Iraqi cells.
Scotland Yard believes that the plan to bring down airliners involved up to 20 terrorists who were planning to smuggle liquid bomb components in hand luggage onto nine British and American passenger jets.
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It does matter, and here's why.
If it's an isolated group of nuts, when you capture the nuts you're done.
If it's Al Queda, you still have a lot more work to do, to eradicate the organization. And hopefully unraveling this plot will give us clues towards that goal.
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Not....YET.
Until we/they start executing terrorists, all this "catching" them will be pretty useless.
Once we have a potfull of them in jails, they'll grab a couple blonde-haired children somewhere and hold them for the release of their "brethren."
He'll talk if they promised him a diet of pork smoothies delivered thru a feeding tube.
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Clare Short?
(Sobered either of them up, even?)
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