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August 10, 2006
"Intended to be mass murder on an unimaginable scale"
British security authorities have thwarted a plot to carry out what would have been a spectacular attack on U.S.-bound jets, using liquid bombs smuggled onto planes via carry-on luggage. Although DHS hasn't yet implicated Al Quaeda, Michael Chertoff highlighted the plan's apparent sophistication, saying it was "about as sophisticated as anything we've seen in recent years as far as terrorism is concerned...This was not a situation with a handful of people sitting around dreaming about terrorist plots." It is, in other words, a very real - and "imminent" - threat; DHS has raised its threat level to Elmo red for air travel, up from Bert yellow.
As usual, Hot Air is collecting the bestest links.
UPDATE -- Tom L. emailed this article a few weeks back describing Pakistan-bound Muslims' unhappiness with "humiliating" and "harassing" treatment at Glasgow airport. A few details are especially chilling -- first, the story focused on Dr Mohammad Anwar of "Glasgow's Central Mosque," who hspecifically praised security at Manchester and Heathrow -- as Tom notes, both are focal points of the plot -- as "completely different" and "very courteous" to Muslim cultural "sensitivities." Second, Drudge is linking (link seems to be down) to a report that the plot involved "citizens of Pakistani descent" -- and the July story specifically involves UK-Pakistan flights. Hmm.
Posted by bill at August 10, 2006 09:21 AM
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