UK airline bomb plot thwarted

[Charge]

Young men again? Maybe they are strongly driven by the promise of numerous virgins at their disposal after a martyr death. Maybe they should be provided with enough p***y while they live to calm them down?

That worked for me all right...

-C+

[Shifty]

Originally posted by Charge
Young men again? Maybe they are strongly driven by the promise of numerous virgins at their disposal after a martyr death. Maybe they should be provided with enough p***y while they live to calm them down?

That worked for me all right...

-C+

 LMAO Charge

Good point Edbert1

[cav58d]

WTG Intelligence...It looks like the UK is taking the brunt of this...The entire state of Great Britain is at terror level "critical"...Cable news is now saying all forms of liquid will be banned from the time being from all flights...

[GRUNHERZ]

Liquid explosaives in carry on luggage, lets say a mens shaving kit, and addetonator in a cell phone or laptop all assembled in a bathroom is something I have worried about for several years as the terrorists next way to bring down a passenger plane.  Good that they got em.

[cpxxx]

Originally posted by Charge
Who was actually behind the plot the text doesn't say. Local Londoners? -C+

As per the London bombings. British born of Pakistani descent and obviously Muslim and yes probably local Londoners. Traitors one and all.

[john9001]

clip from news story, passenger comment:





yes , very inconvenient to do without ones iPod. oh, how shall i survive?




and yes , way to go UK, you da man.

[lazs2]

You mean they weren't Iraeli's?

I think it is time for random full cavity searches berfore boarding planes.  

Do Londoners walk around in their airports in their stocking feet?

lazs

[eagl]

John,

I could be wrong because there is no context for the quote, but it sounds like that person wasn't complaining about the lack of an ipod, rather that if the worst inconvenience was a flight without an ipod, then it's not really all that much of a hassle for the passengers.

But I could be misreading it...

[eagl]

Lazs I still think it's the little old ladies in wheelchairs we need to be worried about.  Just because pretty much all the terrorsts except our own home grown McVeigh match the same profile doesn't mean that the NEXT islamic terrorist won't be a 90 year old disgruntled white lady from Iowa, or even a US senator or ex-president.  Strip search them all and confiscate their viagra as a weapon of mass somethingtion.

[Mustaine]

all liquids are banned on all flights in the US.

tons of huge lines is the report I'm hearing, Ohare in chicago is at a standstill with the delays according to the local news.

gonna be interesting to fly for the next few weeks.

[Masherbrum]

My parents laugh when my wife, kid and I DRIVE to Florida.    

[cpxxx]

Originally posted by Masherbrum
My parents laugh when my wife, kid and I DRIVE to Florida.    

If terrorists killed as many people as drivers did every year.  There would be uproar. It's time for a jihad on bad drivers.

[lazs2]

I drive because so far... It makes me feel less like I live in some old black and white movie of a police state than I do when I go to the airport.    I will avoid commercial airlines and airports like the plague.

anyone remmember how scared we all were watching those old movies of nazis or whatever carrying sub guns in their black uniforms and stopping and searching civilians boarding trains or at checkpoints at random?  Now....  we ask for it to happen to us.   Difference is that our black clad guys wear masks too.

lazs

[Edbert1]

Just got this:

Red Alert: The Plot to Attack British Airliners
Scotland Yard successfully penetrated the plotters of a mass terrorist attack against airliners bound from the United Kingdom to the United States on Aug. 10 British time, resulting in the capture of nine people who planned to use liquid explosives contained in carry-on luggage to down the planes. Current reports indicate at least 21 people have been arrested in total, and perhaps the cell contains as many as 50 people.

There are four takeaway lessons from this incident:

First, while there obviously remains a threat from those not only sympathetic to al Qaeda, but actually participating in planning with those in the al Qaeda apex leadership, their ability to launch successful attacks outside of the Middle East is severely degraded.

Second, if the cell truly does have 50 people and 21 have already been detained, then al Qaeda might have lost its ability to operate below the radar of Western -- or at least U.K. -- intelligence agencies. Al Qaeda's defining characteristic has always been its ability to maintain operational security. If that has been compromised, then al Qaeda's importance as a force has diminished greatly.

Third, though further attacks could occur, it appears al Qaeda has lost the ability to alter the political decision-making of its targets. The Sept. 11 attack changed the world. The Madrid train attacks changed a government. This failed airliner attack only succeeded in closing an airport temporarily.

Fourth, the vanguard of militant Islam appears to have passed from Sunni/Wahhabi al Qaeda to *****e Iran and Hezbollah. It is Iran that is shaping Western policies on the Middle East, and Hezbollah who is directly engaged with Israel. Al Qaeda, in contrast, appears unable to do significantly more than issue snazzy videos.

This shift will obviously refocus Western -- and particularly U.S. -- foreign policy from the old threat to the new threat.

Send questions or comments on this article to analysis@stratfor.com.

[Masherbrum]

cpxxx, I'm patient, but I refuse to wait in those lines to fly.    Plus, I've got to juggle, two carry ons, large and small roller stacked up, while the wife carries "her purse".   It's more like a f**king satchel, she just throws watermelon in it and goes.   Receipts from a year out, and chit.