Posted on 08/11/2006 11:02:56 AM PDT by standingfirm
Edited on 08/11/2006 11:35:06 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Pakistan: Suspected London Plane Terrorists Have Al Qaeda Connection
LONDON — Police arrested 40 people in cities throughout Italy in raids on Muslim gathering places in a security crackdown after Britain thwarted an alleged terror plot, the Interior Ministry said Friday, as Pakistani intelligence agents claimed there was an connection with ties to to the group of suspected terrorists arrested Thursday.
The arrests in Italy were made Rome, Milan, Venice, Florence, Naples and other cities on Thursday and Friday "as part of an extraordinary operation that followed the British anti-terrorist operation," the ministry said in a statement.
40?
Does this mean it was more of a world-wide plot than the Britain to America flights?
Wohoo! Thats the way!
FIND those missing egyptian "students" ASAP.
It's finally starting and the world won't be able to ignore it any longer.
I hope they're interrogating the Egyptian students they found! / wishful thinking
Perhaps there was a much larger conspiracy here than we thought..
I didn't think that this would be isolated to the UK. I don't think that we've been given the whole story about the United States cells either.
Why else would Romney/Schwartzenegger use the National Guard to protect OUR airports?
Rove is unleashing his dastardly plan.......
Italy? Wow. Now I know why the POTUS didn't look himself yesterday during the news conference.
Dozens upon dozens of planes, it appears.
Right. Find those remaining Egyptians.
I thought they arrested 20ish of the 50 suspects yesterday, why would 40 more be arrested in Italy? Is this a much bigger plot than reported so far?!
Well, the known travel strike group of 30-50 had to have a support group. I remember reading the estimates of 100-150 involved. And the thing might be broader than has been so far announced.
Good to see somebody's got their eye on the ball.
Be interesting to find out if they're Methodists.
England, Pakistan, and now Italy. Next Canada? Reading a list of the names of the perps arrested to this point looks a lot like the Toronto telephone directory.
Note, btw, that the Turks recaptured Jerusalem from the Crusaders on 23 August, 1244.... One also, therefore, wonders if these planned bombings were supposed to be a diversion from something planned for 23 August.
Sure looks like it...
I see they caught 3 more middle eastern men (naturalized citizens) with a car full of cell phones today. This bunch is different than the ones they caught the other day.
Drudge has the story.
"Rove is unleashing his dastardly plan" to take attention away from Lamont's win in CT..
At least that's the thinking over at the DU..that this "plot" is nothing more than diverting attention..man, and to think, those people can vote too..:(
Kind of brings credibility to the phrase world wide WOT. Hopefully this will register with the looney left, some of them are undoubtedly on some of the intended planes.
Iran and August 22 anybody?
All Polish grandmothers, no doubt.
Let muzzies ride camels to where they need to get too.
I'm failing to see a problem with this...
Hehe, Beavis you said camel and hump when talking about muslims... *snicker*
(It's finally starting and the world won't be able to ignore it any longer.)
If a plot that actually worked (9/11) was forgotten in only a couple of years, a plot that was avoided will be forgotten by the next news cycle.
Forget jail, Gitmo, or civilian court. Put these scum in a C-130, fly up to 15,000 feet, and make them take a walk.
This reminds me of that car accident a few months back, in Chicago where the guy had a bunch of cell phones and a ton of money....anyone remember?
Ah. There's the downside. Thanks. I think...
When do we arrest ours?
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In France (of all places!) anti-terror laws would allow for them to be held and questioned for three weeks w/o a lawyer and held for three years (!) w/o being formally charged.
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Is there an Islamic greeting where the response is automatic? Have the security guy under his breath greet each passenger this way and see who responds with any kind of recognization.
ANSA news agency says Italian police have arrested 40 people in a security operation after British aircraft terror plot thwarted, The Associated Press reports.
I don't remember. What happened to the man with the cell phones?
To get on the plane, ya gotta pet the sniffer dog...
Can you imagine a plot like this being stopped if Jean Francoise Kerry was the POTUS?
Italian police have arrested 40 people in a security operation following the foiled plot to bring down transatlantic flights, it has been reported.
The news has come from the ANSA news agency.
More follows...
We will have to remember for the world then.
CBS) CHICAGO A stunning discovery inside a car involved in a deadly crash on the Stevenson Expressway Wednesday has sparked a federal investigation.
Two people were killed in the crash involving a number of cars and semi trucks.
Chief Correspondent Jay Levine reports one of the people killed was carrying several suspicious items.
CBS 2 has learned that members of the FBI Terrorist Task Force are among those involved in the investigation originally thought just to be a huge traffic nightmare.
There were at least seven vehicles, including two semis, involved in the 1 p.m. crash that had the southbound Stevenson shutdown for more than six hours Wednesday and left two people dead.
"I heard a loud noise, looked in my mirror, saw a semi jackknife. Two seconds later, a Jeep rear ends me,” Omar Majdobah said. "It was mayhem. Four or five cars, two nearly totaled, two semis hugging each other."
But it is what authorities found in the wreckage, specifically in the car of the 45-year-old man who died in the crash, that has drawn top-level investigators.
Sources tell CBS 2 he was carrying a $1 million check, plus other checks, a large amount of cash and nearly a dozen unused credit cards. That’s prompted calling out members of the elite FBI Joint Terrorist Task Force.
A spokesman has confirmed "...we are at the scene assisting the Illinois State Police investigating things that came up in the accident."
Neither state police nor the medical examiners office are releasing details of the investigation or the identities of those who died.
Sources caution against reading too much into the presence of the terrorist task force, which has a number of financial crimes specialists. They hint that the investigation could just as likely lead to a major counterfeiting operation as it could terrorism or terrorist financing. A lot will depend on the identy of the victim, which they already know.
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I dunno about Mitt (other than his having presidential ambitions), but Arnold's running for re-election and maybe felt he'd better "do something"...
Notice that its the nations within the Coalition of the Willing that are making the progress against terrorism.
The date on that report was 2/22/06
The war is coming to our shores, to our cities, to our neighborhoods.
Be ready.
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