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Airline terror trial: The bomb plot to kill 10,000 people – Telegraph — These three slackjaws, look too stupid to plot much of anything. This entire story is quite interesting and has a lot of PR earmarks.
The al-Qaeda cell plotted to cause mass murder by detonating home-made liquid explosives on board at least seven passenger flights bound for the US and Canada. The plot had the potential to be three times as deadly as the 9/11 attacks of 2001.
The convictions followed Britain’s largest counter-terrorism operation and two criminal trials which, in total, cost an estimated £60million.
All three men convicted on Monday had been found guilty at an earlier trial last year of conspiracy to murder, but prosecutors said it was vital to secure a conviction on another charge of conspiring to blow up the aircraft in order to prove that the threat to air traffic was genuine.
Their arrests in 2006 resulted in immediate worldwide restrictions on passengers carrying liquids in their hand luggage. A ban on containers larger than 100ml is still in place.
# 11 Robart said,”Why don’t we let the TSA profile guys with white t-shirts?”
Ouch! I wear white t-shirts, sometimes. What are you trying to do to me?
Besides, TSA doesn’t profile. Everyone knows that. If you were smart enough to profile effectively, you’d never get into the TSA.
Ooooh, shiny badges…
Come ON John! Don’t you have access to Photoshop? These are white t-shirts, not middle gray t-shirts! Geez.
Oh, you got the shot from Cheney? And he had been keeping it with him on the dark side?
Well okay, then.
Hmmm… I wonder if this would have been quite so funny if they’d have pulled it off?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7536167.stm
Britains “police state” keeping the world safe as usual.
Just in time for the anniversary of 9/11. There’re trying to keep this terrorism BS alive and it’s wearing thin.
I’m trying to find any news source other than the original AP release that this Telegraph story was lifted from. Did this trial actually take place or take place like described?
#24, pecker
Try this for size:
“Dick Cheney ‘put airline bomb plot case in jeopardy with arrest order of Rashid Rauf’”
# 25 Thanks for the link fred. But it’s pretty much in the same vein as the original story – very thin on real evidence and just officials talking of imminent threat and hints of secret services doing shadowy work.
Besides the standard ominous talk of al-Quaida, the video in the BBC article did show two incriminating things: A short video clip of a dark skinned fellow walking around a pharmacy and pictures of a wood where MI5 say they dug up some bomb making supplies after they had made the arrests.
Is this really believable or scary enough to be terrorism?
Media, politicians and secret services all need to up their game with this al-Quaida thing or just drop it and focus on their other terror product lines – swineflu, financial collapse, global warming, nuclear war etc.
I’ve never understood people who believe that the best way to win over other people’s hearts and minds is TO KILL THEM!
Uncle Patso: Worked with the injuns.
Where’s Dexter when you need him?
On top of that a Scottish mucky muck just released an announcement that the release of the Lockerbe bomber , was very much a well discussed prisoner exchange for the billion dollar deal for oil with BP . So Blair and McAsskill are quite clearly in your face liars.The problem was that Gadafi broke the agreement by celebrating his return. Now there are problems with the Libyans supply of the IRA that killed quite a few Brits, Ah oil the balm that soothes all wounds.I think Blair can say adios to his run for European President.
I don’t but it. When confronted with the choice between conspiracy and incompetence, I will go with incompetence every time.
Yeah, these terrorist wannabes are all a bunch of laughable, incompetent losers… until a few of them manage to slip through and pull something off.
Then they don’t seem so stupid, now, do they.
I’m thinking of 19 people on planes with boxcutters.
We have to foil their plots every time. They only have to succeed once. So make fun of them if you want, but don’t let that give you a false sense of security.
This was 11 years after they arrested Khalid Sheikh Muhammad’s relative for trying to blow up airliners in the Philippines.
# 33 kjackman
“don’t let that give you a false sense of security.”
Your right, a government that can’t abide by it own fought and died for ideals, who lies to it’s people and solders, then sets new and unprecedented acts of cruelty that only enable the terrorist to better recruit and train more suicidal Jihadist; yea, I say don’t let the CIA/NSA/DoD/FBI/HLS/DoJ give you a false sense of security.
Because of the hate they stir up, they cut off one head and ten grow back.
In related news (for those who think most of these things are bogey), thanks to the ties between venezuela & iran:
New York District Attorney Robert Morgenthau Warns of Threats to National Security http://tinyurl.com/l8xvte
If normal household fluid supplies were all that they had, as #7 said, then you all are up to no good.
Because you all DO have some fluids in your living spaces.
Who will be first to telephone the FBI tips line on all you suspects?
#34, The name of the relative you refer to is Ramzi Yousef.
Is this correct?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-lance/feds-move-terrorist-close_b_43415.html
This is all bullshit.
Is it just me or is the guy on the right a dead ringer for Om Malik?
Seriously I think that’s Om!