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'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

Posted on 08/09/2006 10:17:04 PM PDT by 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.


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To: NorthWoody

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.


1,281 posted on 08/10/2006 1:57:23 AM PDT by The Red Zone
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To: onyx
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.

1,282 posted on 08/10/2006 1:57:24 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity.)
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To: Eurotwit

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


1,283 posted on 08/10/2006 1:57:31 AM PDT by Seeing More Clearly Now
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To: All

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).


1,284 posted on 08/10/2006 1:57:43 AM PDT by Cage Rattler
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To: mtbopfuyn
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
1,285 posted on 08/10/2006 1:57:50 AM PDT by Dallas59
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To: Miss Marple

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


1,286 posted on 08/10/2006 1:57:51 AM PDT by onyx (Deport the trolls --- send them back to DU)
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To: Mo1

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


1,287 posted on 08/10/2006 1:58:06 AM PDT by WestVirginiaRebel (Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
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To: cydcharisse
Young Pakistani Muslims apparently are "no particular community"

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

1,288 posted on 08/10/2006 1:58:07 AM PDT by GeronL (http://www.mises.org/story/1975 <--no such thing as a fairtax)
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To: Mo1

But they did; sort of.


1,289 posted on 08/10/2006 1:58:09 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: kingu

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


1,290 posted on 08/10/2006 1:58:17 AM PDT by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
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To: Cindy
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.

1,291 posted on 08/10/2006 1:58:22 AM PDT by yield 2 the right
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To: onyx
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.)

1,292 posted on 08/10/2006 1:58:30 AM PDT by Miss Marple (Lord, please look after Mozart Lover's and Jemian's sons and keep them strong.)
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To: cydcharisse

Good God...


1,293 posted on 08/10/2006 1:58:41 AM PDT by Dallas59
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To: Mo1

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


1,294 posted on 08/10/2006 1:58:52 AM PDT by onyx (Deport the trolls --- send them back to DU)
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To: stripes1776
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.
1,295 posted on 08/10/2006 1:58:52 AM PDT by Timeout (I hate MediaCrats!)
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To: Cindy

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

I'm shocked! Shocked!/s


1,296 posted on 08/10/2006 1:59:02 AM PDT by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES.)
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To: Dallas59

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...


1,297 posted on 08/10/2006 1:59:51 AM PDT by WestVirginiaRebel (Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
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To: mtbopfuyn

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...


1,298 posted on 08/10/2006 2:00:03 AM PDT by Humbug (Thank you for taking the time to read this tagline.)
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To: GeronL
They were apparently targeting US airlines

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

1,299 posted on 08/10/2006 2:00:07 AM PDT by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
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To: onyx

I'll bet it did

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


1,300 posted on 08/10/2006 2:00:16 AM PDT by Mo1 (Bolton- "No one has explained how you negotiate a ceasefire with terrorists")
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