While many of us slept, anti-terrorism forces slipped-up on some very bad guys and captured them. These bad guys were reportedly in the final stages of a plot to kill as many plane travelers as possible. Some reports indicate there were 10 intercontinental aircraft targeted.
The underbelly of this caper has not come out yet, but I want to direct you attention to a couple of important items here. The first is that there was a lengthy investigation which uncovered this plot and set it up to be foiled.
The plot had ``global dimensions,'' Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke said. U.K. police decided last night that ``urgent'' action was needed to thwart a plot to blow up the aircraft after officers conducted an ``unprecedented'' amount of surveillance, the top anti-terrorism official said. Reid said the police were confident that they had arrested the ``main players.'' (emphasis mine)
We might not know how the terrorists' intentions were discovered or what kinds of surveillence were conducted, but let me pose this question: What if the initial alarm was raised based upon the phone calling patterns of someone from outside Britain, calling into the UK?
To Continue Reading at NoPunditIntended.com Click Here.
No comments:
Post a Comment