'Plot to blow up planes' foiled [UK TERROR THREAT LEVEL RAISED TO IMMINENT{U.S.raised terror level)

BBC News ^ | Thursday, 10 August 2006, 05:06 GMT 06:06 UK | Unknown

[gary_b_UK]

A major terrorist plot to blow up planes in mid-flight has been disrupted by police, Scotland Yard says.

It is thought the plan was to detonate explosive devices smuggled on board aircraft in hand luggage.

During the night, police arrested a number of people in London after a counter-terrorist operation they said had lasted several months.

Police believe the attacks would have been particularly targeted at flights from the UK to the US.

The Department for Transport said security at all UK airports has been increased.

Passengers on all flights will not be allowed to take any hand luggage on to any flights in the UK.

Only the barest essentials - including passports and wallets - will be allowed to be carried on board in transparent plastic bags.

[The Red Zone]

And, that the personnel cost for doing this would be prohibitive because the people who service Florida cannot service California, etc. even though the job is EXACTLY the same.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Nut yet, we here in the US, must not PROFILE.

We can't upset those who are by nature overly-sensitive to having their space violated.

[Seeing More Clearly Now]

You're right. Community leaders today more often than not today are hard core anti-government organizers.

[Cage Rattler]

A security bomb expert on Irish radio was saying that apart from liquids/size half pack of cigarettes, etc he points out that there is no reason you couldn't smuggle it on internally (like drugs mules).

[Dallas59]

Something was going on..and still is. I think all this ties in with the Iranian Prez Moo Moo and his "announcement" on 8/22

[onyx]

Yikes is right, MM.
Fox and Sky News have done a most commendable job tonight.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

The New York Slimes will be very displeased because the wiretapping apparently worked...

[GeronL]

Young Pakistani Muslims apparently are "no particular community"

Its like the Toronto Star wondering all those would-be terrorists had in common over there.

[nopardons]

But they did; sort of.

[mtbopfuyn]

Can you explain why my puter and another FReeper's suddenly shut down a few minutes ago and restarted.

[yield 2 the right]

If I heard/read all the news reports correctly; all of the suspects are Muslims

Soon to be called by the PC MSM: "(---------)" anything but what they really are.

[Miss Marple]

Michael Chernoff says we cannot be sure ALL of the plans have been thwarted.

Liquid chemical devices, I hear David Aspin saying. (Haven't had time to read the thread yet.)

[Dallas59]

Good God...

[onyx]

Good point, Mo.
I am hoping wiretapping played a huge role. I think that'll be called just desserts.

[Timeout]

Appeasement may explain the thinking of the naive, pacifist left. But there are others on the left who have a Romanticist fascination with the Rebel. Muslim rejection and violence against Western culture fulfills these leftists' fantasies of rebellion. These are the types who wear Che Guevara T-shirts. There is always an admiration for anyone who revolts against the "system." Hence the secret admiration of Islamofascists.

This is apparently nothing new.

Last night Instapundit linked to an article about Ned Lamont's grandfather...a well-known "fellow traveller". Here's an excerpt:

In 1952, Corliss Lamont wrote in “The Myth of Soviet Aggression”:

The fact is, of course, that both the Truman and Eisenhower Administrations, in order to push their enormous armaments programs through Congress and to justify the continuation of the cold war, have felt compelled to resort to the device of keeping the American people in a state of alarm over some alleged menace of Soviet or Communist origin.

I was struck by how familiar it all sounded.

[MEG33]

"If I heard/read all the news reports correctly; all of the suspects are Muslims."

I'm shocked! Shocked!/s

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Don't forget the Iranian Revolutionary Guards whose bodies were found in Lebanon...I have a pretty good guess as to from whom these suspects got their martyrdom orders from...

[Humbug]

11th came to mind only because it seems to be a magical number for these guys...but you're right, i remember hearing about the 22nd in connection to Iran and how Ahmadinejad was planning a major announcement that day in regards to nukes...interesting times ahead, that's for sure...

[mtbopfuyn]

They were apparently targeting US airlines

Except Brussels, Iberia, the Netherlands, Spain, and a couple other countries shut down flights in the UK.

[Mo1]

I'll bet it did

And if my thinking is right .. it would make the NYT, Libs, Dems and Specter looks like jack*****