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."
Nothing now. LOL, I didn't know who PV was, other than Pamela Vitale, who was murdered and whose *alleged* murderer's trial I am currently following.
Perhaps I am channeling her?
Snips ...
Five of the suspected London terrorists are still at large and are being urgently hunted, according to U.S. sources who have been briefed on the airplane bombing plot. Officials tell ABC News 24 people now have been taken into custody. Twenty-two are believed to be of Pakistani descent. One is Bangladeshi, and another is of Iranian descent, according to the officials. One of the arrests was made in the northeastern London suburb of Walthamstow.
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Two of them are believed to have recently traveled to Pakistan and were later in receipt of money wired to them from Pakistan, reportedly to purchase tickets for the suicide bombers. Sources identify the three, who are now in custody, as: --Rashid Rauf --Mohammed al-Ghandra --Ahmed al Khan
Here's a new thread now on Travel Restrictions:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1681285/posts
Pissandvinegar had posted something before we began this exchange. What's the Vitale case about?
Euro style: 11th day, 9th month. 10th day, 8th month.
They said...bring dry formula and you can mix it on board or "taste it". Sounds like FEMALES are being looked at also.
Last October, Lafayette, CA, wife of defense attorney Daniel Horowitz, a Court TV commentator on some trials, was found murdered in their home.
Accused is a local teenager, now 17, but 16 at the time, who had been stealing credit card info. No one thought that was a good enough motive to just go up there and brutally beat her to death - and stab her afterwards, too.
But he did. "Dyleski" is keyword here, just a few posts.
Also, 3 more Egyptians have been found, to the relief of their worried parents. /sarc
Two were in Dundalk, MD, and one in Chicago.
The girl behind the counter had a shawl on her head. Muslim owned Dollar Store?? He was pretty dark and ruddy like the males tend to be.(definitely not black)
More about the London plot:
Explosive Gel Was to Be Concealed in Sports Drink
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1681302/posts
Still works, one month earlier hence -1?
Next projected attack 10/12, 12 October?
Ya mean...After interrogting the parents.
Read "8" as two Zeroes....not an 8.
One can *hope*
Approximately 30% of all illegal immigrants came here legally and then overstayed their visas, many of them students. So 11 students is barely noticeable when there are thousands who do so every month.
See my reply on this same question in #259 the ones of ReformedBeckite in #243.
Don't know where you got the numbers from, but the point remains--someone called in immediately. Your original post was complaining about government searches. Since 9-11 all of us have lost some freedom. The root is not our government, the root is terrorism. I'm not going down the immigration, constitution, etc., road with you. I've been there and done that here. The point is that you can't blame the government for trying to keep the country safe. Blame the terrorists for making the searches etc. necessary.
I have no idea what you are talking about. I never complained about government searches. You must have me confused with someone else.
I'm sorry, you are right. I did have you confused with another thread and poster. My apology. It was someone else complaining about the the government taking away their freedom. Sorry Kabar, I was annoyed with the other poster blaming the government.
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