UK Terror Threat

[HAL 9000]

UK police and security forces say they have foiled a terrorist plot to blow up planes leaving Heathrow.
Did they not hear?
We had a successful War Against Terror to stop this sort of thing happening.
How embarrassing, they really should read the newpapers

[na§tee]

i know! how ridiculous! i thought that was all done and dusted. that shit is ssssoooooooooo 2003. it's like "gee whizz, thanks blair! we all might die now because of your wee fuck-up!"

[QueenAdrock]

Link. (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14278216/)

Crazy, man. I'm glad though, because whenever they raise the terror threat that means airports get slightly more safe. When they're not on edge, they are more lax in policies. I traveled last month to Canada and when I got there I realized that I still had my lighter in my purse, which I was able to get through US Security. When I forgot it the second time for the trip back, Canadian security took it. I'm glad they had their shit together at least.

After 9/11, they confiscated EVERYTHING. It's silly, because right after 9/11 was probably the safest time for flight because Al Qaeda and terrorists bide their time. They wait until we AREN'T on alert to attack us at our most vulnerable points. We should always be as watchful as we were after 9/11, but I know we're not going to be. I ride the DC metro everyday and hope that nothing will go wrong, but something in the back of my mind says it'd be easy for something to happen since we're not expecting it. I hope they still have undercover cops on the metro, but I have no idea. :(

[Jmoney77]

crazy stuff

[ms.peachy]

Um, technically, they did "stop this thing happening". So that would make them successful, no?

[Bomba Klaat]

Things have been a bit fucked up but people in the UK aren't so paranoid over terrorism, probably because we don't have Fox news. Maybe if Blair hadn't trundled into Iraq (despite most of the country not wanting him to follow Bush) to get those darned terorists who as Afghans would surely be there:confused:

Just so you know the world doesn't hate America, we hate your government - which i imagine som e of you do too.

[gorilla]

UK police and security forces say they have foiled a terrorist plot to blow up planes leaving Heathrow.
Did they not hear?
We had a successful War Against Terror to stop this sort of thing happening.
How embarrassing, they really should read the newpapers


What are you a fucking asshole? How embarrasing that a plot was foiled - fuck off and die!

[HAL 9000]

Um, technically, they did "stop this thing happening". So that would make them successful, no?

The point I am making is that I suspect that the military action taken in the Middle East has part of the War on Terror probably incited the recent attempted plot rather than prevented it. The implication being that Middle Eastern military operations were less about terrorism and more about ulterior motives. I have no proof of that of course, just being facetious

[ms.peachy]

Your point is fallacious, because it presumes that terror attacks are solely the result of the military action in Iraq, and not at all based in a fanatical religious ideology. It's pretty clear that it's not down to simply one or the other, and simplistic bleating isn't really all that clever.

[camo]

i'm happy that 2500 innocent people didn't die. Is anyone focusing on this yet?

[HAL 9000]

Your point is fallacious, because it presumes that terror attacks are solely the result of the military action in Iraq, and not at all based in a fanatical religious ideology. It's pretty clear that it's not down to simply one or the other, and simplistic bleating isn't really all that clever.
Obviously the reasons for an individual wanting to commit a terrorist attack are numerous and complicated and I made no presumption as you describe. Just making a simple point that IMO terrorism is more, rather than less, likely to occur as a result of military action in the Middle East.

[D_Raay]

British wanted to continue surveillance on terror suspects, official says. NBC News has learned that U.S. and British authorities had a significant disagreement over when to move in on the suspects in the alleged plot to bring down trans-Atlantic airliners bound for the United States.

A senior British official knowledgeable about the case said British police were planning to continue to run surveillance for at least another week to try to obtain more evidence, while American officials pressured them to arrest the suspects sooner. The official spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the case.

In contrast to previous reports, the official suggested an attack was not imminent, saying the suspects had not yet purchased any airline tickets. In fact, some did not even have passports.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14320452/

[Funkyfreshgrape]

i bet that they are just making up this "terrorist attack" stuff...