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Title: 'Airlines terror plot' disrupted
Source: BBC
URL Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4778575.stm
Published: Aug 10, 2006
Author: BBC
Post Date: 2006-08-10 08:48:49 by Jethro Tull
Keywords: None
Views: 1265
Comments: 137

A plot to blow up planes in flight from the UK to the US and commit "mass murder on an unimaginable scale" has been disrupted, Scotland Yard has said. It is thought the plan was to detonate explosive devices smuggled in hand luggage on to as many as 10 aircraft.

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Poster Comment:

The "plot" was that they would carry liquids aboard, mix them in flight, then detonate them.

Joe Lieberman, where are you when we need you???

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#1. To: Jethro Tull (#0)

Doesn't sound like much of a plot, if you ask me.

BTP Holdings  posted on  2006-08-10   9:11:37 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: BTP Holdings (#1)

Doesn't sound like much of a plot, if you ask me.

It smells to me.

I read small note on this subject that all people were "homegrown" Brits.

Somehow I do not think the bad guys would trust such aa affair to "foreigners".

Cynicom  posted on  2006-08-10   9:16:53 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Cynicom, BTP Holdings, robin (#2)

OK, Joe Lieberman loses on Tuesday, and the "terrorists" are going to blow us up on Thursday. Sure....

Jethro Tull  posted on  2006-08-10   9:38:38 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Jethro Tull (#6)

Thank G-d no Jews were targeted on this lastest Jihad on Jewish supremacy...but should distract us away from Hizzbollah mopping the floor with the IDF.

Eoghan  posted on  2006-08-10   9:43:16 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#29. To: Eoghan (#8)

...but should distract us away from Hizzbollah mopping the floor with the IDF...

A more interesting side query to that comment is how the hell did Hezbollah all of the sudden come up with what to all outside appearances seems to be the best fighting force fielded by Islamics since Saladin?

Typically, Islamic forces (somewhat excepting mountain people in Chechnya and Afghanistan) have always displayed indifference to anything resembling logical strategic and tactical doctrine when engaging western forces (If you want to see the most ridiculous example of this there is some after action reporting by the Pakistani military on their second war with India that reads like a comedy from a military doctrine standpoint. So and so displeased Allah by partaking in spirits and women and was therefore defeated etc...). More often than not, local victory was won through incompetence of the opposition, or the propensity of the Islamic side to perservere without thought to the cost in materials or bodies.

All of the sudden you have a force of several brigades size that is innovative, doesn't waste lives, and knows how to put limited resources to maximum use. They particularly appear to show an enhanced ability to operate with a high level of initiative and autonomy in small units.

The politics of the conflict aside, I've always thought that constant low grade warfare without conclusion (which I believe is fostered by international finacial interests) was a very poor long term strategy for the western world because it exposes the opposition to exist under high intensity, long term, selective pressure that makes them better. We are probably seeing the results of this here.

The downside is that it is going to put pressure on the Israelis and the US to conclude conflicts with much greater levels of destruction and to definitely poke and prod Iran into doing something that allows us to pound them hard without suffering from public backlash...

Axenolith  posted on  2006-08-10   10:43:48 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#37. To: Axenolith (#29)

The politics of the conflict aside, I've always thought that constant low grade warfare without conclusion (which I believe is fostered by international finacial interests) was a very poor long term strategy for the western world because it exposes the opposition to exist under high intensity, long term, selective pressure that makes them better. We are probably seeing the results of this here.

This is exactly what caused the Israelis to withdraw from Lebanon in 2000 after 18 years of occupation.

BTP Holdings  posted on  2006-08-10   11:57:39 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#110. To: BTP Holdings, all (#37)

You catch this?

Military dissatisfaction with government in Israel (Coup mentioned)

Axenolith  posted on  2006-08-10   19:28:52 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#114. To: Axenolith, christine, zipporah, robin, Dakmar, Jethro Tull, lodwick, ALL (#110)

Check out the link in #110.

Esso  posted on  2006-08-10   23:51:20 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#115. To: Esso (#114)

Remarkable stuff. The Hez already won to a large degree.

Jethro Tull  posted on  2006-08-10   23:57:58 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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