Thursday, August 10, 2006

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Great story from NoPunditIntended.com

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?

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