Exactly how much more evidence would have been collected in one more week? And who is this senior British official?
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.
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.
So, the RATS got some sh-t in their grits? So???
Dean Finds Timing of Terrorist Plot Suspicious
Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee has assailed the “poor timing” of the recently thwarted al-Qaeda plot to blow up multiple trans-Atlantic flights from the United Kingdom to the United States. “We had the Republicans on the ropes,” Dean complained. “All the polls showed us picking up dozens of seats in Congress—enough to take back the majority and ensure the impeachment of President Bush, now this. Are these terrorists idiots? Couldn’t they wait until after November?”
Dean didn’t confine his wrath to what he dubbed “those bumbling Muslim nincompoops.” He offered an alternative take on events that was more conspiratorial in nature. “How do we know it’s not a put up job?” Dean mused. “It’s easy to arrest people and claim they were going to launch an attack. Maybe there was no planned attack.”
Dean asserted that the “trigger-happy duo” of Bush and Blair—the “killer Bs” as he called them—were, at best, escalating the violence against the U.S. and U.K. “These two act as if a ‘pluralistic society’ is the only acceptable way to govern,” Dean said. “Bush and Blair are risking our lives by foolishly espousing an abstract concept of liberty. Well, every suicide attack against us is a powerful vote for a different culture of governance. We need to take heed of these votes instead of blindly lashing out at this different point of view. The belligerence of Bush and Blair is escalating the conflict.”
Dean said he still remains hopeful that memories of the “alleged” narrow escape from this latest terrorist attack will fade by November. “Football season will be starting, there’ll be the World Series, a new TV season—plenty of things to distract voters from the alleged success of Bush’s war on terror,” Dean said. “I’m confident our ‘u-turn for America’ theme will convince a majority to place their trust in our party.”
In related news, the ACLU expressed dismay that a key tactic in the U.K.’s foiling of the plot to blow up airliners was a so-called “sneak-and-peek” program where British intelligence experts covertly broke into suspects homes and implanted listening devices. “This was an outrageous trampling of civil rights,” said ACLU spokesman, Bertram Petty. “Some may find comfort in the lives saved, but we see a greater danger in the privacy lost. We must do everything we can to ensure that this kind of intrusion doesn’t happen here.”
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http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm
Memo to Lisa Myers: You might want to try doing just a tad of research. Other news organizations are saying the terrorists received a message: "Do your attacks now".
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1682700/posts
BULLSHIT
The Whitehouse was in close contact with the Brits, and concerned that the proper balance be maintained between continuing surveillance to collect valuable intel on the one hand, and not waiting too long to prevent execution of the plot on the other. BUT, the Brits ultimately made the arrests at the time they did for two salient reasons: The perps has purchased their materials (and indeed already prepared the bombs, see here) and the Pakistanis had arrested a plotter there which it was thought would tip off the rest of the cell (see here).