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'Plot to blow up planes' foiled [UK TERROR THREAT LEVEL RAISED TO IMMINENT{U.S.raised terror level)
BBC News ^ | Thursday, 10 August 2006, 05:06 GMT 06:06 UK | Unknown

Posted on 08/09/2006 10:17:04 PM PDT by gary_b_UK

A major terrorist plot to blow up planes in mid-flight has been disrupted by police, Scotland Yard says.

It is thought the plan was to detonate explosive devices smuggled on board aircraft in hand luggage.

During the night, police arrested a number of people in London after a counter-terrorist operation they said had lasted several months.

Police believe the attacks would have been particularly targeted at flights from the UK to the US.

The Department for Transport said security at all UK airports has been increased.

Passengers on all flights will not be allowed to take any hand luggage on to any flights in the UK.

Only the barest essentials - including passports and wallets - will be allowed to be carried on board in transparent plastic bags.


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To: mware

AGREED.

they want American patriots for their "collateral damage"

--not dolphins, whales and tuna.


1,921 posted on 08/10/2006 5:55:35 AM PDT by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
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To: mware

Missed that but am very glad of a tough President in these times.


1,922 posted on 08/10/2006 5:56:21 AM PDT by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
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To: Allan
If someone got bumped by mistake it would be O.K. with me.
1,923 posted on 08/10/2006 5:56:46 AM PDT by rodguy911 (Support The New media, Ticket the Drive-bys, --America-The land of the Free because of the Brave-)
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To: Ron in Acreage

No wonder!

ALL THE DIMRATS HAVE GENETIC SUPERMOUTH/DIARHEA MOUTH SYNDROME!

TRAITOROUS IDIOTS.


1,924 posted on 08/10/2006 5:57:23 AM PDT by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
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To: Jonathan

NO. Won't be.

1. The DIMRATS are in league with the devil, the puppet masters and the Jihadi's.

2. There is the Constitution which we still support but which may need some practical change on this point at this time.

3. There's all the clueless globalist sympathizers who have their heads in the clouds, up their rears . . . off their necks.

4. The rest are wimps.


1,925 posted on 08/10/2006 5:59:18 AM PDT by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
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To: Quix
If you get the chance check out PJ's DU Funny's.

You would not believe it. Here is a sample.

I am beyond mad this morning, so I apologize in advance for bad language But I am in full-on rant mode, and I'm super pissed.

I keep hearing people on the news, being interviewed in our local airport, saying they're just glad we've been protected. Well, f*ck the brand of protection given to us by our governments. I, FOR ONE, WOULD RATHER BE COMFORTABLE ON A FLIGHT THAN "PROTECTED." Would someone please prove to me that all the ridiculous security measures we have suffered through and continue to suffer through (and whatever new security measures they'll think up in the future) have actually done anything real to protect me?

My husband's on the phone with his family in England right now. Everybody was planning on coming here soon for a big two week holiday. We were going to have a blast. Now, my sister-in-law will probably have to stay home. Why? She has a baby. And she's been told that she can only carry a limited amount of formula/milk, and only the diapers and wipes that she can carry on her person. What the f*ck? Does no one have any common sense anymore? I'm going to look for online stores where the whole family can order cargo pants, reporter's vests, etc., so they can wear them on board and stuff themselves with baby gear.

My MIL said that they're being told that this may last only a week or so. I say don't bet on it. As long as the Bush/Blair administrations are getting political leverage from it, it will stick. It will quietly stop when either poll numbers get too low, or when the airlines start raising hell because they're losing too much business because passengers have said enough's enough, we won't be treated like animals.

Well, sorry it was rambling, but thanks for letting me VENT!!!!!

1,926 posted on 08/10/2006 5:59:40 AM PDT by mware (Americans in armchairs doing the job of the media.)
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To: Allan
Our judicial system is wholly slanted to protect the innocent,rightly so. We go way overboard to make sure a person who may be "not" guilty is never declared guilty.

Now it's time to protect the innocent let's start going a bit overboard to make sure we who fly,who are not guilty should not be blown up because of some PC fears.

1,927 posted on 08/10/2006 6:00:36 AM PDT by rodguy911 (Support The New media, Ticket the Drive-bys, --America-The land of the Free because of the Brave-)
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To: Allan
And how do you determine if a passenger is a Moslem, pray tell?

Ask him to eat a ham sandwich?
1,928 posted on 08/10/2006 6:00:54 AM PDT by Kozak (Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
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To: All

Oh this is funny...

OFF TOPIC..

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1681064/posts

"DUmmie FUnnies 08-10-06 (DUmmies Blame THEIR Usual Suspects In UK Plane Terror Plot)"
DUmmie FUnnies ^ | August 10, 2006 | DUmmies and PJ-Comix

Posted on 08/10/2006 5:52:06 AM PDT by PJ-Comix


1,929 posted on 08/10/2006 6:01:07 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: Leatherneck_MT
...Time to start a policy of allowing only Muslims on only certain kinds of planes. They don't fly with other people. Then if they want to blow the plane up, let 'em....

Good idea but what crew would want to fly with them?

Only a Mooslim crew would and then you'd have a planes full of fanatical, virgin-seeking jihadists flying around in our skies.

1,930 posted on 08/10/2006 6:01:08 AM PDT by FReepaholic (This tagline could indicate global warming.)
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To: Sacajaweau

I think we're grasping at straws with "8/22". The more logical explanation is that tomorrow is 8/11, which would imply "imminency" as the British have characterized it.

The even MORE logical explanation is that the names (or aliases) of these suspects showed up on the manifests of separate flights leaving today.


1,931 posted on 08/10/2006 6:01:40 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever
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To: mware

Sigh.


1,932 posted on 08/10/2006 6:01:46 AM PDT by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
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To: patriciaruth
I'm traveling in two weeks with a two year old. People are going to want me dead if I can't entertain her...last time play dough worked like magic and a drink/snacks were a must. dang!
1,933 posted on 08/10/2006 6:02:48 AM PDT by socialismisinsidious ( The socialist income tax system turns US citizens into beggars or quitters!)
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To: Quix

President Bush has had to contend with the most difficult times since the beginning of our nation. We've gone back to reviewing Presidential War Powers. The Congress wants ALL POWER!! The Constitution says different and it was because the damn Congress...from the beginning...couldn't agree on a damn thing.


1,935 posted on 08/10/2006 6:03:30 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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To: nopardons
Well, I was way off in my bet that the first Dem whining would start on Hardball.

Trolling over at DailyKos, these broke through at 8am EDT:

Ah. But the delicious irony that three months before a national election, we are at red alert again. Nothing like an American election to make the terror alert go through the ceiling. One wonders if we might use it to assess the administration's level of concern about its own chances.

...and....

how convenient to release this news the day after Lamont wins the primary. The politicization of "terror" reporting is so obvious


1,936 posted on 08/10/2006 6:03:42 AM PDT by Timeout (I hate MediaCrats!)
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To: gondramB
I wonder if they will stop allowing carry ons?

In another thread, that was exactly what was claimed for all current flights within GB...

1,937 posted on 08/10/2006 6:03:56 AM PDT by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: mware
Everybody was planning on coming here soon for a big two week holiday. We were going to have a blast.

Maybe the "blast" was going to occur sooner then the DU moonbat might want.....
1,938 posted on 08/10/2006 6:04:23 AM PDT by Kozak (Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
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To: socialismisinsidious

Benadril.


1,939 posted on 08/10/2006 6:04:46 AM PDT by Timeout (I hate MediaCrats!)
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To: All

This is a delicate I guess is the right word but women must not have boxed sanitary products.


1,940 posted on 08/10/2006 6:04:59 AM PDT by mware (Americans in armchairs doing the job of the media.)
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