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.
man bag?
Dearbornistan terror arrests:
Flight docs and 600+ tracphones
By Michelle Malkin · August 09, 2006 11:01 PM
Two men were charged Wednesday with money laundering in support of terrorism after authorities said they found airplane passenger lists and information on airport security checkpoints in their car.
Deputies stopped Osama Sabhi Abulhassan, 20, and Ali Houssaiky, 20, both of Dearborn, Mich., on a traffic violation Tuesday and found the flight documents along with $11,000 cash and 12 phones in their car, Washington County Sheriff Larry Mincks said.
It wasn't clear what significance the airline information might have. Assistant County Prosecutor Susan Vessels declined to comment on whether the manifests were for upcoming flights or those that already flown. She also would not give the origin or destination of the flight or flights.
FBI spokesman Mike Brooks in Cincinnati said his office was notified about the arrests and had an agent investigating.
Abulhassan and Houssaiky admitted buying about 600 phones in recent months at stores in southeast Ohio, said sheriff's Maj. John Winstanley. They sold the phones to someone in Dearborn, a Detroit suburb, Winstanley said.
Vessels declined to say how the phones, cash or flight information involved terrorism.
Investigators going through the car after the pair were pulled over in Marietta also found a map that showed locations of Wal-Mart stores from Ohio through Kentucky, Tennessee and into North and South Carolina, Vessels said.
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Not unless they've found something biological that will blow up a plane.
Women and children, and Jerry Seinfeld most affected.
Exactly. Plus they jam the aisles. I wish they'd be required to stay seated until those of us without the BAGGAGE deplaned.
I like your thinking.
Alternately . . . have a shell of a plane . . . in the desert somewhere . . . with these jerks as bound passengers with some of their own explosives wired to go off at a critical moment in the training of anit-terror forces exercises . . . but perhaps take several sequences of such to finally do the trick.
I know, cruel and unusual . . . welllll these jerks are cruel and unusual in their methods so let some country that understands the language they speak pull it off.
I hate having to fight violence with violence but that's just the breaks, folks. That's reality. They don't understand anything else.
Paterson is what I was thinking. Thanks.
Remember the anthrax scare, that was all powders.
The DUmmies think it is all a fake Rovian plot. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2770402
They don't think that they have them all.
Boston-bound plane returns to London:Rider's name on no-fly list
HuffleClaw (1000+ postsTue Aug-08-06 05:08 AM
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1. so... ...who PAYS for this crap?
seems to me the airline should bill homeland security for this every time. the no-fly list is simply criminal.
Historically speaking, the left is simply UNCANNILY stupid.
BINGO!
OMG!
Everybody, see kcvl's post!
Isn't that Jon Conyers District??
I nearly missed a connecting flight one time because some bozo couldn't get his HUGH carry on unjammed from the cubby-hole.
Makes sense then that the level should remain imminent.
Could one of these "compounds" be carried aboard in a uh body cavity?
Any entrepeneur wanting to start up "Pork Chop Airlines" will make a gazillion dollars.
The motto could be "When Pigs Fly".
That'd take care of the terrorist plots on planes.
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