Posted on 08/18/2006 1:47:43 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Police investigating an alleged plot to bring down airliners have found several martyrdom videos in the course of their searches, the BBC has learned. Unofficial police sources said the recordings - discovered on laptop computers - appear to have been made by some of the suspects being questioned.
Scotland Yard has refused to comment on what officers are finding. Police are continuing to search woodland at High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire and 14 addresses. The Metropolitan Police, which is leading the inquiry, has said it has already completed searches of 36 business and residential sites. A total of 20 vehicles have also been searched. 'Routine' help Meanwhile, it has emerged that every police force in the UK is now involved in the investigation. The 43 forces in England and Wales, eight in Scotland and the Police Service of Northern Ireland have sent, or are sending, officers to assist.
Hundreds are said to be involved with further officers on patrol at airports. A spokeswoman for the Association of Chief Police Officers said: "It's routine in a big investigation that ACPO coordinates mutual aid for forces. "All forces across the UK are providing officers to help with the operation by the Metropolitan Police." The alert began on 10 August after raids in London, High Wycombe and Birmingham. A district judge has granted anti-terror officers an extra seven days to question 21 of the 23 people being held, and an extra five days to question two. Under the 2006 Terrorism Act the maximum period someone suspected of terrorist activity can be held without charge is 28 days, subject to regular court approval.
It is believed up to 17 people are being held in Pakistan over the alleged plot - with two British nationals of Pakistani descent among them. Scotland Yard officers have also flown to Pakistan to liaise with the authorities there over the questioning of Rashid Rauf, the only man who has so far been named by Pakistani authorities.
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Nah, just another feeble Bush/Cheney plot to pump a false terrorism threat and distract fromt he brilliant conspiracy work of Sy Hersch...... /s
Tons of articles.....think this was the first from the Counterterrorism Blog:
London Airline Bombing Plot News (updated 4:05 pm ET)
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The lefties need to be dragged onto shows like the Factor and crucified.....maybe then America and the Euroweenies will wake up!
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A new report is available for download from the Nine Eleven Finding Answers (NEFA) Foundation website titled, "The Jihadists of Pakistan: Jaish-e-Muhammad (JEM), Harakat ul-Mujahideen (HUM), and Anjuman Sipah-e-Sahaba (SSP)." The document is based upon an expert witness report that I submitted on behalf of federal prosecutors in the recent case of United States v. Hamid Hayat (U.S. Dist. Court for the Eastern District of California, CR#05-240GB). The report contains a detailed discussion of Pakistan-based military training camps used by JEM and HUM, and further analysis of what has become of those camps under the so-called "Regime of Controlled Freedom."
Info on bomb-making materials discovered:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1686126/posts
But Larry Johnson says as long as we don't have a working prototype in our hands there is not urgency to the plot. Exactly how long does that dipstick think it would take trained operatives to assemble such components?
Thats precisely how the first World Trade Center attack was pulled off. They assembled a group of loser-wannabe-terrorists who didn't know what to do, and then brought in a specialist from Iraq to lead them.
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