No doubt, British intelligence and their policing arms are to be praised for stopping this latest threat.
However, if the Bush administration had employed the same tactics to uncover this as did the Brits....this newspaper would have been the FIRST to decry their "illegal methods".
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Oh please, Bush didn't "mock" the use of police, only treating the terror war as merely a law enforcement matter and nothing more. Bush never claimed police have no role in this effort. Far from it. He merely correctly commented on the Clinton predilection for making the fight against terrorism a one dimensional effort that involved only police work. But this plot was not broken because of indictments, but because of the kinds of surveillance techniques LIBERALS LIKE THIS WRITER OPPOSED that allowed Al Qaeda communictions to be monitored.
2 posted on
08/13/2006 6:00:57 PM PDT by
MikeA
(Not voting out of anger in November is a vote for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Tsk, tsk. Playing politics with terrorism.
US law enforcement has stopped domestic plots since 9-11. The (accurate) criticism of Democrats is that they believe the ONLY response to terrorism is law enforcement--at home AND abroad.
4 posted on
08/13/2006 6:06:53 PM PDT by
RedRover
(Every election year is troll season.)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
The Brits were on the case cuz NSA did the intercepts.
NSA ain't zactly COPS, I think, but just as long as the job gets done...
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08/13/2006 6:09:43 PM PDT by
gaijin
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