Exactly how much more evidence would have been collected in one more week? And who is this senior British official?
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.
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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...
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.
Exactly how much more evidence would have been collected in one more week? And who is this senior British official?
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!!!
Very clever of Rove, timing this story with the day AFTER an election.
RATS already believe this is a false conjured up plot.
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.
A famous American once said, " Stupid is what stupid does". Seems to fit here.
I CAN'T wait for these America haters demand "Terrorist Bill of Rights" before the November election!!!
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