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Source: U.S., U.K. at odds over timing of arrests (MSM/RAT conspiracy theory)
MSNBC ^ | August 12, 2006 | Aram Rostom, Lisa Myers

Posted on 08/12/2006 9:50:42 PM PDT by balch3

ONDON - NBC News has learned that U.S. and British authorities had a significant disagreement over when to move in on the suspects in the alleged plot to bring down trans-Atlantic airliners bound for the United States.

A senior British official knowledgeable about the case said British police were planning to continue to run surveillance for at least another week to try to obtain more evidence, while American officials pressured them to arrest the suspects sooner. The official spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the case.

In contrast to previous reports, the official suggested an attack was not imminent, saying the suspects had not yet purchased any airline tickets. In fact, some did not even have passports.

(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: airlineplot; londonairlineplot; msm; wot
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The RAT sites are all over this, claiming that the US was pressuring the Brits to move up the arrest in time to influence the CT primary.
1 posted on 08/12/2006 9:50:44 PM PDT by balch3
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and yesterday the reports out were that the cells were told to go NOW.... they moved the time table up your don't wait until its too late... that sounds like a Dem plan...


2 posted on 08/12/2006 9:53:59 PM PDT by tomnbeverly (Thank God for Domestic Surveillance or thank the President either way just be thankful.)
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I wish these people were as interested in reporting the fine details of Al Qaeda's efforts.

The idea that this was moved up to influence the CT election (which was the day before) is the moonbattiest of moonbat conspiracy theories. It does fit with their Clinton mentality of thinking about how things will do in court, when the more believable reason would be stopping the plot before the damn planes actually exploded.

3 posted on 08/12/2006 9:56:51 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 (http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm)
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A senior British official knowledgeable about the case said British police were planning to continue to run surveillance for at least another week to try to obtain more evidence,

Exactly how much more evidence would have been collected in one more week? And who is this senior British official?


4 posted on 08/12/2006 10:03:47 PM PDT by operation clinton cleanup
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I don't know what the rules regarding the issuing of passports to British citizens are, but back in 1990 I got my U.S. passport on the same day I applied. I just showed up at the State Department office in Rockefeller Center with my airplane tickets and filled out an application. It took about an hour.
5 posted on 08/12/2006 10:04:41 PM PDT by BushMeister ("We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around." --Ronald Reagan)
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The US wants to make sure the attacks are prevented, rather than worry about the evidence and legal trials, while some terrorists slip through and perpetrate the attacks.


There may still be other attacks in the works. You always want to prevent the attacks the earlier the better.

Britain's Al-Qaeda leader seized

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1682715/posts

The thwarting of the alleged plot has, however, failed to quash continuing fears among counter-terrorist experts. Senior security officials have briefed ministers that a “second phase” of attacks may be about to be launched.

Ayman al-Zawahiri, Al-Qaeda’s deputy head, is said to have warned in a message placed on a restricted extremists’ website last month that the terrorist group was planning two large-scale attacks this autumn.



6 posted on 08/12/2006 10:05:48 PM PDT by FairOpinion (Dem Foreign Policy: SURRENDER to our enemies. Real conservatives don't help Dems get elected.)
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In reading more of this article, it seems like another "unnamed source" is just trying to create a rift between the US and the UK.


7 posted on 08/12/2006 10:07:37 PM PDT by FairOpinion (Dem Foreign Policy: SURRENDER to our enemies. Real conservatives don't help Dems get elected.)
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In reading more of this article, it seems like another "unnamed source" is just trying to create a rift between the US and the UK.


8 posted on 08/12/2006 10:07:42 PM PDT by FairOpinion (Dem Foreign Policy: SURRENDER to our enemies. Real conservatives don't help Dems get elected.)
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"There was unprecedented cooperation and coordination between the U.S., the U.K. and Pakistani officials throughout the case," said Frances Townsend, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, "and we worked together to protect our citizens from harm while ensuring that we gathered as much info as possible to bring the plotters to justice. There was no disagreement between U.S. and U.K. officials."

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I rather believe her, than the MSM which already demonstrated their unreliability and anti-US bias many times with many "fake but accurate" news and pictures, to further their agenda, at the expense of the truth.


9 posted on 08/12/2006 10:09:44 PM PDT by FairOpinion (Dem Foreign Policy: SURRENDER to our enemies. Real conservatives don't help Dems get elected.)
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But even this "unnamed source" confirmed that they were planning to do a dry run in a couple of days -- so they either did have the passports, or would be able to get them in a day, as you suggested.


10 posted on 08/12/2006 10:11:35 PM PDT by FairOpinion (Dem Foreign Policy: SURRENDER to our enemies. Real conservatives don't help Dems get elected.)
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And what if the "dry run" had been intended to blow up one jetliner over the Atlantic as a "proof of concept", rather than merely an innocuous plane ride with chemicals but with no detonation? The lefty moonbats are exactly the type of armchair intelligence agents who have savaged the Bush administration for supposedly missing the signs leading up to 9/11, but are also the first ones to posit a conspiracy when the Feds move sooner rather than later to nip an evolving plot in the bud.


11 posted on 08/12/2006 10:12:07 PM PDT by The Electrician ("Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.")
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"In reading more of this article, it seems like another "unnamed source" is just trying to create a rift between the US and the UK"

Probably another Clinton leftover somewhere that should have been handed his/her walking papers on January 20,2001.

Again, the "new tone", if it was an American source, is coming back to bite. Hopefully the next Republican that takes over after a Rat administration will do the right thing and ask for the resignations for every Rat appointee from the White House to whatever the lowest appointed office is in government.
12 posted on 08/12/2006 10:13:48 PM PDT by The South Texan (The Democrat Party and the leftist (ABCCBSNBCCNN NYLATIMES)media are a criminal enterprise!)
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This is just Barbra Streisand.

Some already had tickets and the word came out of Pakistan: DO IT NOW.

So where did THIS stupidness come from? Some moron producer's nether parts.

13 posted on 08/12/2006 10:14:57 PM PDT by nopardons
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Why would the Bush administration want to influence CT for Lieberman? A Lamont win helps the Pubbies. Just ask Slate.com or Marty Peretz, two Dems who are aghast.


14 posted on 08/12/2006 10:17:40 PM PDT by bombthrower
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Uh huh... The DEMs, the NYT, the LA Times, the Washington Compost, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, CBS, Air America Radion and numerous other MSM outlets have outdone each others to become the most ridiculous opponent of the NSA, DISA to track terrorist oversea calls and financial transactions... They act like NO ONE noticed!!!


15 posted on 08/12/2006 10:18:54 PM PDT by Toidylop
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Very clever of Rove, timing this story with the day AFTER an election.


16 posted on 08/12/2006 10:22:53 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by fleeing the scene of an accident)
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To: balch3

RATS already believe this is a false conjured up plot.


17 posted on 08/12/2006 10:22:53 PM PDT by Dallas59 (WHAT THE HELL ARE MUSLIMS DOING IN AMERICA???)
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To: FairOpinion
The "dry run" might have included only one team of 2-3 terrorists. If that's so, only these few would have to have had passports.

Certainly, a "do your attacks now" message from Pakistan indicates that these terrorists weren't expecting to wait 30-60 days to get their passports through the mail.

18 posted on 08/12/2006 10:23:16 PM PDT by BushMeister ("We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around." --Ronald Reagan)
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To: Toidylop

A famous American once said, " Stupid is what stupid does". Seems to fit here.


19 posted on 08/12/2006 10:26:05 PM PDT by bybybill (`IF TH E RATS WIN, WE LOSE)
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I CAN'T wait for these America haters demand "Terrorist Bill of Rights" before the November election!!!


20 posted on 08/12/2006 10:29:05 PM PDT by Toidylop
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