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I heard a few minutes then they summarized the conversation, I thought that was it and went to bed. We are not in a tinfoil hat area inspite of the usual supects trying to brand this as such. In fact I think we are probably understating the importance of this incident.

Interesting story - November 30, 2005 - UK....

MI5 FOIL MISSILE BLITZ ON HOLS JET
Terrorist suspect is arrested near M25
By Jeff Edwards Chief Crime Correspondent
A SUSPECTED terrorist was arrested yesterday as he tried to buy a missile to shoot down a holiday jet.

The Asian-born man, 28, was also thought to be seeking explosives for a Christmas bomb blitz in London. He was held at gunpoint by police and MI5 agents near the M25 in Hertfordshire. A source at Scotland Yard said: "We think he was buying the missile in a bid to bring down a trans-Atlantic airliner on landing or departure at a major British airport....

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16429210&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=mi5-foil-missile-blitz-on-hols-jet-name_page.html

Now, if I were in a tinfoil hat mode, I'd think that they're planning to time something for December 15 in order to divert media attention away from the Iraq vote and any terrorist activitiy that might happen on over there. If you're a news editor faced with covering a jetliner shootdown or two or three, vs. covering terrorist activity to disrupt the final election in Iraq (which Bush is depending on), what would you cover?

-PJ