London Airline Bombing Plot News (updated 4:05 pm ET)

Counterterrorismblog.org ^ | August 10, 2006 | Andrew Cochran

[t2buckeye]

Let's also thank God for the troops in Afghanistan that caught the guy that gave up important information. I suspect that a lot of intelligence is being gleaned from the Afghanistand and Iraq that is helping to foil these plots.

[Dog]

Ping me to any future threads you post I have a ping list I'll ping for you.

[shield]

bttt

[John Lenin]

Freepmail it.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks, I will monitor your threads.

[Coop]

Good find, Dog, and thanks for the ping. I had heard of the Pakistani government's assistance, but not this level of detail. Did they specify if U.S./Afghan forces got the cowardly punk, or Pakistani forces?

[Dog]

Bloodhound Dog on the job...:-)

[Coop]

Just found a BBC article seemed to give the credit to Pakistan.

[Waco]

We have all the justification we need to nuke Iran back to the 3rd century. Already had it IMHO. It's way past time to start cutting CO2 emissions in that part of the world. Suck that, algorejr, idiot.

[Fairview]

Rashid Rauf, Mohammed al-Ghandra, and Ahmed al Khan

Ah-hah! Just as I suspected! Obviously blonde Icelanders! Thank God we don't waste our time profiling.

[TrebleRebel]

Website of one of the suspects

http://www.rashidrauf.com/

[ketelone]

Its not so easy to profile in heathrow. Every other passenger has a muslim name.

[Dog]

Doing a further Google search ...this looks like its the same person...

Mr. Rashid Rauf

[ketelone]

Just heard on the local radio....An Air Canada flight, diverted because of a suspicious liquid.


Hmmm.. or it was the aftermath of someone joining the mile high club

[fanfan]

LOL! In a bottle?

More likely some Mott's Clamato juice.

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

Nahh. THink he got his hooks (and eye I think) fighting the russians in Afghanistan.

One of the nice things about the British nanny state is that they've actually paid a male nurse to wipe his butt every time its needed since he can't take care of that without doing some pretty terrible damage.

How'd you like to put THAT on your resume?!?!?!

[dr_who_2]

How powerful would these bombs have been?

[whenigettime]

Size may not be an issue, just big enough to blow a hole into the fuel tank.

[whenigettime]

I'll be happy to get on a commercial jet filled ONLY with civilized citizens who have not commited themselves to the annihilation of non-muslims. Profile, profile, profile, oh and did I say profile? Up until we do such a thing... no more flying for me.

[AdmSmith]

The youngest is just 17 years old, the leader is 29 and was working at Heathrow!