From US New & World Report:
Terrorism suspects plotting to blow up American planes headed from the United Kingdom to the United States were planning to smuggle hydrogen peroxide-based liquid/slurry explosives in modified sports drinks bottles, U.S. News has learned. The suspects had figured out a way to modify the bottoms of the factory-sealed bottles and fill them with the explosives that were similar to those used in other recent attacks in London, and at least nine planes were targets, the official said. So far, British police have arrested at least 21 suspects in the plot, which had been months in the planning.
At least some of the suspects had ties to those involved in the July 7, 2005, coordinated bombings on the London subways, a law enforcement source told U.S. News. British police were watching the suspects for weeks and had to make some “gut-wrenching” decisions on how long they could wait before making the arrests, this law enforcement source said. Several of the plotters made trips to and from Pakistan for meetings, recruiting, and training. British police decided to make the arrests after some of these men, believed essential to the plot, returned to the U.K. This source told U.S. News that the British police realized that the suspects were “accelerating” their efforts “quicker than we realized” and that the subjects were close to “getting ready to get on planes to do it.”
[my emphases]
And to think—all this just to take the bloom off of Ned Lamont’s stunning 3 pt Democratic primary victory in Connecticut!*
Well it won’t work. NEDRENALINE IS IMPERVIOUS TO THE VICISSITUDES OF THE REAL WORLD! Hell, Islamofascists could blow a hole in Darien the size of a Super Target and all that would do is prove that the only way to defeat terrorism is to refuse to egg it on by looking it directly in the eye or making any sudden movements.
And of course, by hanging your food in a bag from tree limbs before retiring for the evening.
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(h/t Cindy Powell of U.S.News & World Report)
straight from the fireswamp
and there you have it. 1 tiny little paragraph of Liberbush doing their best to ruin the swamps fun!
You know, there was a time when I really believed that the “Netroot” Dems were doing all of this crap for purely political purposes. They just wanted power, but really had some understanding of what we were facing.
I no longer believe that. I’ve actually lost even more respect for them. I don’t know whether to be depressed or angry. I’m going to settle for both – I’m going to start punching these idiots, but in a very morose manner.
TW: And as I live in Northern NJ, there are plenty of these asshats around.
No doubt, electronic surveillance was used extensively, as well as phone taps, etc. The type that the NYT screamed that Bush should be impeached over several months back.
The success of their, and our, law enforcement personnel must be causing the lefties severe heartburn.
According to ABC News’ The Blotter funds transfers from Pakistan to some of the plotters played a part in the arrests.
Damn that illegal and dangerous SWIFT monitoring program!
Wait a minute… what were the damn mormons doing meeting in Pakistan? Their usual MO is to do all that stuff in Utah.
Oh, wait… you mean they weren’t mormons? Probably a hodgepodge of unrelated faiths, then. :/
A broad strata, no doubt.
Is USN&WP finally learning how to get people to read their stuff?
And if you should experience a biting sensation in your capitulatory ass, quickly curl up into a fetal position and lock your fingers into ear-canal position. This will protect you.
Oh wait, I guess you don’t have to do anything, then.
Unless it’s a black bear, of course, in which case you had better lob a jar of distraction peanut butter before it rips your arms off.
TW: Hey Boo Boo, we’re Bears of Peace!
The left blogospher is farking useless. On the one hand you have the idiots at Americablog and Firedoglake immediately “question the timing” (didn’t see that one coming). A quick survey of a few other big liberal blogs show that many don’t even mention the plot (including Kos and Duncan Black), while Kevin Drum’s insightful commentary is:
Wow. That really makes me think!
Good lord almighty. Who told these people they could breath my air?
Should Muslims be allowed on commercial space flights when they become common? I’d hate to see our lunar base destroyed. Then again I don’t remember Muslims on Star Trek, which is good because the Klingons would have hated those guys.
British police were watching the suspects for weeks and had to make some “gut-wrenching†decisions on how long they could wait before making the arrests, this law enforcement source said.
I just heard an NPR interview (I think it was Terry Gross) with some British journalists about the arrests. When the Brit refers to the event as a huge success for MI5, Terry has to interrupt and ask,
“Given the fact that apparently the arrests occurred with only scant days before the operation was supposed to have been held, couldn’t you interpret this as an intelligence failure?”
I suppose you could interpret success as failure. And interpret black as white, and Eddie as the Cruisers (great piece on Truth and contingency therof…)
Funny thing is, when my husband woke me up to tell me about the terror plot, my first thought was that perhaps this would be a wake-up call for the left.
But, in my defense, I hadn’t had my coffee yet. I just wasn’t thinking clearly. By my second cup, I had visited dKos and my disappointment in the left was restored.
Warning: Do not annoy Mr. Happy Fun Superpower.
SB: east
of Aden
Well. you already have morons speculating about What Bush Knew and When. I mean, why didn’t he tell the NYT so they could get the story out? He should’ve blown the whole operation so that we could have all had a chance to running amok in the streets crying and gnashing our teeth. He’s no fun at all. How dare he!
Maybe it was Lisa Mullins. Don’t want to disparage Fresh Air if The World is to blame…
I would add Aravosis’ name to the list of eponymous terms (such as fisking and frisching) that signfies the mental illness of the anti-American Left. And, since aravosis already contains the linguistic suffix that denotes disease, this ought to be easily managed.
Thus:
aravosis (n.) a mental disorder found among Leftists for which all external attempts at parodying its egocentrism and paranoia are rendered superfluous and, possibly, gauche.
“Then again I don’t remember Muslims on Star Trek, which is good because the Klingons would have hated those guys.”
There are no Muslims on Star Trek because it takes place in the future.
JAysus—and yet Larry Johson says this a overblown deal!
Soon, passengers on commercial flights will be stripped, pumped full of kolonopin and zanex, x-rayed, rectally probed, duct-taped to gurneys and then stacked like timber in racks on the planes. All thanks to the “Religion of Peace”â„¢
I, for one, can’t wait!
An excellent point.
CENTCOM has been sending out notices, newsletters and press releases for a little while as well.
Maybe this intrawebs thing might work out, I mean if the tubes don’t clog – right Senator Stevens?
Greenwald just called wondering when the reservation desk opens.
As several others have noted, the reaction to this event on the Lefty blogs is astounding for the most part. For example, a formerly conservative to middle-of-the-road blog called “Balloon Juice” is filled with posts and comments that rival anything DU or the Kossites have posted, i.e., “it’s all masterminded by Karl Rove,” “awfully suspicious coming on the heels of Joe Idiot’s loss on Tuesday,”, etc. I guess I should have seen it coming when the comment threads on that site basically turned into an anti-Semitc series of rants when the Lebanon/Israeli crisis broke out a month ago.
As long as the Xanax and Klonopin come first, I’m jiggy with the rest.
Sign me up.
The Moonbats are questioning the timing of the foiled terror plot. If it was a con job put together by Rove and Co, why Didn’t they Pull the trigger before the CT primary or closer to Nov. 2nd.
cheshire – because they are, despite their cunning ability to construct intricate schemes, blithering idiots. Remember?
That confused me for a second, because I know we don’t have missionaries in Pakistan.
Something about being Christ-worshipping infidels and all that…
TW: Ch-ch-ch-changes…
Because they’re the dumbest evil geniuses the world has ever seen.. Or was that the evilest dumb geniuses? Oh the dissonance!
[Scotty voice on intercom] My cognative processes can’t take much more of this, Captain!
Not true.
Lamont is moments away from calling for “frickin laser beams mounted on sharks heads” to combat terror.
tw: if this is the best the Democrats have to offer, we are in *trouble*
And they were all apparently British Citizens, you know…the ones that had been assimilated into the whole melting pot thingy. That’s going well…
Oooohhhhhhh!!! Right. I keep forgeting that they lack the ability to have an abstract thought. My Bad.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Muslim groups criticized President George W. Bush on Thursday for calling a foiled plot to blow up airplanes part of a “war with Islamic fascists,” saying the term could inflame anti-Muslim tensions.
OMG, we don’t want that. No. Uh-uh.
TW: FREEEEEEEEEDOOOoooommmm….arghh..
“When the people we need most in the fight against terrorism, American Muslims, feel alienated by the president’s characterization of these supposed terrorists, that does more damage than good,” Lekovic said.
-Edina Lekovic, spokeswoman for the Muslim Public Affairs Council in Los Angeles
Just some Religeon of Peacers on holiday with their sports drinks, no doubt.
Yes, let’s validate their feelings.
You know–by bombing Tehran.
Ladies, Gentlemen, and you too Professors, I present the Mistress of Timing, the close-but-no-cigar Democratic Senator from New York, and supreme whirling dervish Hillary Clinton.
TW: <i>leave<i> your principles at the hat-check please, we have a Democrat Primary to run here.
Playing now at a website near you: Nedrenaline Madness, Starring Michael Moore, John in DC, and a cast of thousands.
Don’t bother though, unless you can actually score some and catch the midnight Friday show.
Anyone notice the dearth of quality trolls here lately?
What’s up with that?
TW: needs. Exactly what I’m sayin’.
Is the nedrenaline still self-serve? They moved the pseudo-nedphedrine behind the counter, which is a real pain if you use as much Sudaned as I do.
RoPMA.
From ABC News:
Well yeah, those are definitely either Christians or Jews with names like that. Maybe Hindus or Buddists even.
It’s not just here. I haven’t seen many trolls at a lot of the blogs that I frequent. Perhaps they’re all grounded.
marcus:
The trolls are on vacation until they figure out how to make Karl Rove responsible for all the news fauxtography and the timing thing isn’t sticking yet because even they know the timing would have been better before the CT primary.
Yeah, I guess they’re all just a little overwhelmed at the moment.
All of the trolls are looking at each other saying;
“OK, he won…uhhhhh, now what do we do? I dunno. Fuck it man, pass the bong.”
Maybe we ought to help the little trolls. How about:
“An obvious case of entrapment. Selling peroxide to muslims. Haram. You ever see a blonde muslim?” Sombebody call the ACLU.
“Bush lied. Nobody died. Entrapment.”
It is impossible to parody those ass-hats. I have too many brain cells left. Gotta work on that.
TW: writing. Writing is difficult work. Bring me a beer, wench.
Alas, Mrs D is at work, so I’ll have to get it myself.
OH NOES TEH RACIAL PROFILINGORZ!!1!one!!
“When the people we need most in the fight against terrorism, American Muslims, feel alienated by the president’s characterization of these supposed terrorists, that does more damage than good,â€Â
I wonder if it occurs to the Ms. Lekovic that American Muslims conspiring to murder us by the score may be leaving many of us feeling alienated.
Am I the only one to notice that the Islamists appear to be more sane than the leftists?
Its kind of like fighting hearltless murderers in the middle of a circus.
That would make a GREAT episode of “Monk”.
Hey, these guys want a plane ride to mid-Atlantic? I say give it to ‘em.
One way.
SB: deal
with these assholes
Okay, I thought Lonetown’s comment was Best In Thread, until I saw RC’s response.
Lone, if you’ve got a topper, better unleash it quick.
Okay, that one REALLY made me LOL.
Monk: Eeeew! Don’t touch me with that greasepaint! I hate clowns! [You know he would.]
I think there actually was an episode of “Monk” set at a circus—and yes, Meg, that was largely his reaction.
you are correct McGehee, i think the elephant did it.