Terror Plot Foiled In London

[Callaway]

(CBS/AP) Police in London say they have thwarted a major terrorist plot intended to blow up planes, reportedly over the Atlantic while flying to the U.S. About 20 suspects are in custody, after a series of arrests overnight.

Britain's Home Secretary, John Reid, says about a dozen of the the suspects were "very close" to succeeding in the plot, which he describes as "significant" and designed to cause loss of life.

Reid also says the plot was uncovered and foiled by British police who have been conducting an undercover operation for a number of months.

Sky News reports the plot may have involved blowing up 20 planes in mid-air over the Atlantic Ocean.


Follow link for full article:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/10/world/main1880791.shtml

I hope none of our members are badly affected by the resulting increase in security.

[duncvis]

Grrr. Have had a really fucking stressful morning thanks to this - no hand baggage was allowed on flights leaving the UK, so we had to squeeze everything into the cases. Some flights from Liverpool were cancelled so we had to set off 70 miles to the airport not knowing whether PI and the kids would actually have a plane to catch when we got there - luckily I got a text from her mum half way home saying their plane was still setting off and on time.

* duncvis relaxes a few notches and wonders if its too early in the day for a drink

* duncvis also wishes for a sane government which didn't have its head wedged up George Bush's arse, then maybe we wouldn't be getting all this shite

 

[Callaway]

I'm glad that no planes were blown up or crashed.  Apparently, the terrorists planned to make bombs using some sorts of liquids, because the airlines are forbidding almost all liquids in carry-on baggage.  Apparently they aren't even allowing ladies to carry purses on the flights, only wallets.  That would make it very difficult for us to travel with our daughter.  It must be difficult for PI to travel with the kids without carrying things to entertain them in the airport and on the flight and the lines must be awful.  I hope she has a nice vacation and birthday anyway.

[McGiver]

something tells me that PI has a certain look that the kids recognize as its time to behave or suffeer the wrath and fury of hell.

[duncvis]

She has, but our kids are a match for most things lol.

It must be difficult for PI to travel with the kids without carrying things to entertain them in the airport and on the flight and the lines must be awful.  I hope she has a nice vacation and birthday anyway.

It was a complete ballache apparently - they couldnt even take on the sweets they took with them to stop their ears popping. PI and the kids landed ok but to add insult to injury, although UK security had allowed her to take her cigs on the plane but not her lighter, security at Limoges made her throw them away... most of a 20 pack.She wasn't very impressed. 

[McGiver]

and i know from experience that the first thing she probably wanted was a fag, the moment the plane landed.
i do feel for her.

[Triste]

Grrr. Have had a really fucking stressful morning thanks to this - no hand baggage was allowed on flights leaving the UK, so we had to squeeze everything into the cases. Some flights from Liverpool were cancelled so we had to set off 70 miles to the airport not knowing whether PI and the kids would actually have a plane to catch when we got there - luckily I got a text from her mum half way home saying their plane was still setting off and on time.

* duncvis relaxes a few notches and wonders if its too early in the day for a drink

* duncvis also wishes for a sane government which didn't have its head wedged up George Bush's arse, then maybe we wouldn't be getting all this shite

 

Talk about crappy timing.  I thought all flights out of the UK were cancelled.
I'd say you're entitled to a drink after this.  Or two.
And you're right about our governments.  Argh.

[QuirkyCarla]

It could be worse. We're all lucky that they CAUGHT these people.

[McGiver]

my first instinct is:
what is the bottom line?
who does this help financially/politically?

sure it was just good police work.

[odeon]

I'll admit that I was thinking along the same lines. Wasn't there enough focus on the "war against terrorism"?

[le travesti angelique]

Expect the entire British Muslim demograph to be picked on more now.

[Beowulf]

my first instinct is:
what is the bottom line?
who does this help financially/politically?

Why don't you tell us who it helps financially and politically?

I doubt the orders came right from the top; Tony Blair has been slated for sunning himself in Barbados while all this has been happening.

Maybe our leaders were trying to send us a message concerning the War On Terror. You want to know what I think every time I hear a story about a new Muslim terror plot?

1. British troops should not still be being sent out to die in Iraq and Afghanistan to bring "democracy" to people who don't want it. Their presence there puts British civilians at an increased risk of Muslim terrorist attacks back home.

2. Muslims don't belong in Britain.

Is this just what "they" want me to think? I doubt it.

[le travesti angelique]

2. Muslims don't belong in Britain.

Why don't they belong in a socialist state?

[Beowulf]

Expect the entire British Muslim demograph to be picked on more now.

Yeah, right. Britain is just about the softest, most liberal, most decadent and suicidal country on earth.

Expect more bullshit stories about "Islamophobia" along the lines of "someone looked at me funny in the supermarket the other day".

People really have to be quite staggeringly ignorant not to see what has been going on in Britain, and in most of Europe, in recent years.

1. Muslims commit, or try to commit mass murder
2. Immediately, liberal twerps chip in to say that the real victims of all this are "ordinary" Muslims themselves.
3. At the same time, self-appointed Muslim "spokesmen" chip in to say the same thing. Muslims feel victimised, they say. You should give the Muslim community x,y and z or you risk pushing people into the arms of "extremists". Basically, they say, grant the Muslim community more concessions or Muslims are gonna kill you.
4. The liberal establishment willingly oblige. We must win the hearts and minds of Muslims, they say. We must work harder towards an understanding with the Muslim community!
5. The Muslim community say to themselves, "well, this works. What a bunch of gullible fuckwits. Let's plot some more terrorist attacks."
-- Go back to stage 1 --

Now, what makes Muslims feel they are justified in killing non-believers? Think hard, now.
You won't find the answer watching the BBC News.

The answer? Islam itself.
The Koran and the Hadith and 1,400 years of Islamic "theology".

Qur’an:9:5  “Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, harass them, lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war.”

Qur’an:8:39  “Fight them until all opposition ends and all submit to Allah.”

Qur’an:8:65 “O Prophet, urge the faithful to fight. If there are twenty among you with determination they will vanquish two hundred; if there are a hundred then they will slaughter a thousand unbelievers, for the infidels are a people devoid of understanding.”

Qur’an:47:4 “When you clash with the unbelieving Infidels in battle (fighting Jihad in Allah’s Cause), smite their necks until you overpower them, killing and wounding many of them. At length, when you have thoroughly subdued them, bind them firmly, making (them) captives. Thereafter either generosity or ransom (them based upon what benefits Islam) until the war lays down its burdens. Thus are you commanded by Allah to continue carrying out Jihad against the unbelieving infidels until they submit to Islam.”

Etc etc etc.

Jihad is central to Islam. This has not changed in 1,400 years.
Are liberals really arrogant enough to think they can change this?
Do they really think it is our duty to change this?

It's not gonna happen. Wake up and smell the coffee.

[odeon]

Bigot.
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