Posted on 08/10/2006 3:00:54 AM PDT by HAL9000
Police statement on airline bombing plot
LONDON (Reuters) - Following is the full text of a statement issued by London Deputy Commissioner, Paul Stephenson on Thursday morning:
"We are confident that we have disrupted a plan by terrorists to cause untold death and destruction and commit mass murder.
The Commissioner has been fully briefed and he is at New Scotland Yard today. He and I want to pay tribute to officers from the Met's Anti-Terrorist Branch and the security services for the work they have undertaken to disrupt these activities.
We believe that the terrorists' aim was to smuggle explosives onto airplanes in hand luggage and to detonate these in flight.
We also believe that the intended targets were flights from the UK to the USA.
Overnight we have arrested 21 people. The majority of those arrests have been in London but we have also made arrests in Thames Valley and Birmingham. We are currently searching a number of addresses.
We are grateful to our colleagues in other force areas for their support.
As the operation got under way we spoke to community leaders to make them aware that a major anti-terrorist operation was taking place but without giving specific details about locations. This extensive dialogue will continue throughout the operation.
We would like to reassure the public that this operation was carried out with public safety upper most in our minds. This is a major operation, which will inevitably be lengthy and complex. The UK is now at the highest possible level of alert.
We will consider the threat in its wider sense and take whatever action is necessary to protect people in London and throughout the country.
Measures have already been put in place to restrict hand luggage taken onto aircraft. This will inevitably cause significant delay and we ask people to remain calm, patient and vigilant at this very difficult time.
Put simply this was a plot to commit mass murder on an unimaginable scale."
That's what she thought. If Snopes said this is false, then I would saw that Snopes has been discredited. I read that article when she wrote it. It was utterly chilling. And it's been awhile, so this thing has been in the planning for quite some time. I don't know that it was planning for this exact attack we're hearing about today, but I have no doubt that it was research for an attack at some point.
No, she was a passenger.
Yeah. The only upside to this stuff is it may give the Pubs an edge in the elections. I happen to be a little nervous about the Dems winning in '08 and what that will mean for our security.
Yes, and they are going to begin profiling of all men with black pants and suspenders and straw hats.
Please freep the Globe and Mail online discussion. The moonbats are squawking about the evil Bushitler. Yikes, 25% of my country's citizens are raving lunatics. Someone has gravely failed our education system.
ALL MOSLEMS NEED TO BE DEPORTED FROM THE US ..Time for PC talk is over..We MUST DEMAND THIS !
I thought their plan was to blow them up over the Atlantic...did I miss something?
A co-worker DUmmie is in denial. This morning she tried to brush off the report as "a bunch of amateurs, like those kids in Florida who claimed to be Al Qaeda." The rest of us smirked.
I TOTALLY AGREE..NO ONE GETS ELECTED UNLESS THEY AGREE..We , the PEOPLE , need to mobilize and slam the politicians (who will get us all killed by their inaction)
What's the point? To tip them off?
Good, tell you a hole co worker to get on a flight to England then .
"Please freep the Globe and Mail online discussion..."
With pleasure.
I'm glad to see FoxNews finally using the Internet to stream their broadcasts. I hope this is a permanent feature.
On what basis? Does this include American citizens?
You know you can't do that, don't you?
This attack was originally scheduled for Dec. 2003 and was disrupted at the time. But this operation is much larger than the original one that was disrupted.
Back in the '70s, my English mother used to complain about the number of Pakistanis that England was letting into the country. I thought she was racist, due to my fine gov't education.
Ah well, live and learn.
The link(s)were posted on last evenings ME thread. Don't know how long they have been active.
People should be really scared. On Bennett this morning, Horowitz was talking about Soros (traitor) and imagine Sorox pulling the puppet strings on someone like Kerry.
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