Anti-terrorist police in UK foil imminent plan to blow up planes in mid-air

Thanks Britain for saving our asses. 🙂 George Bush will try to take all the credit though, I'm sure. 😬

Originally posted by -Tired Hiker-
Thanks Britain for saving our asses. 🙂 George Bush will try to take all the credit though, I'm sure. 😬

I heard about this on the radio this morning... scary stuff... i swear though, you ever wonder if the security guys just make this shit up to make themselves look good?

Originally posted by pr1983
I heard about this on the radio this morning... scary stuff... i swear though, you ever wonder if the security guys just make this shit up to make themselves look good?

You mean the bombers they found trying to blow up the planes at the Thames airport ?

Originally posted by grey fox
You mean the bombers they found trying to blow up the planes at the Thames airport ?

Yeah, the flights heading to the usa...

Originally posted by grey fox
You mean the bombers they found trying to blow up the planes at the Thames airport ?

Yeah, supposedly they may have been trying to copy cat some sort of attack that was also thwarted years ago by some other terrorist group, I think in the 80s, not sure. But yeah, the plan was thwarted thanks to the British Airport security.

Ahhh , ok I just saw it on the news and they didn't specify where the planes were going.

Originally posted by grey fox
Ahhh , ok I just saw it on the news and they didn't specify where the planes were going.

Crazy shit tho... apparently they were going to blow the planes up in midair...

I think it should be made clear that this was not a random stop by airport security.

This was a targetted operation by anti-terrorist police that has broken up the planned terrorist attack shortly befiore it was going to happen. It follows a long investigation and the investigation is expected to go on for some time. The investigation is said to have a 'global dimension'.

It is currently chaos at Heathrow airport because a very large amount of flights are being cancelled.

Originally posted by Ushgarak
I think it should be made clear that this was not a random stop by airport security.

This was a targetted operation by anti-terrorist police that has broken up the planned terrorist attack shortly befiore it was going to happen. It follows a long investigation and the investigation is expected to go on for some time. The investigation is said to have a 'global dimension'.

It is currently chaos at Heathrow airport because a very large amount of flights are being cancelled.

Flights here are in disarray too... alot of our flights go through heathrow, so they're being delayed too... its mayhem...

Originally posted by Ushgarak
I think it should be made clear that this was not a random stop by airport security.

This was a targetted operation by anti-terrorist police that has broken up the planned terrorist attack shortly befiore it was going to happen. It follows a long investigation and the investigation is expected to go on for some time. The investigation is said to have a 'global dimension'.

It is currently chaos at Heathrow airport because a very large amount of flights are being cancelled.

I'll do it.

Originally posted by Ushgarak
I'll do it.

Thanks.

[oh..and I was wondering how did Preston made up so weird threa title..]

I heard about the issue on the radio.. and didn't get the beginning, just the part about flights being cancelled and so.. I was actually scared that there was some attack.. again.

So who is the USA attacking next?

Not a very helpful comment, Clovie. An attempt to kill more people than died on 9/11 appears to have been thwarted; I do not think it is appropriate to use that as yet another excuse to attack the US.

I'm never helpful, don't you know by now?

I wanna know who's suspected to have been organising it.

All I know is that I am so glad they were caught, and it's scary to think what could have happened. I also hope that there are no other acts in progress right now, seems there won't be.

Originally posted by -Tired Hiker-
All I know is that I am so glad they were caught, and it's scary to think what could have happened. I also hope that there are no other acts in progress right now, seems there won't be.

What could have happened? ...wouldn't even surpass 10000 deaths...basically nothing. Well, the planes are expensive I guess....

[edit] Edited the number of possible victims.

Originally posted by Clovie
I'm never helpful, don't you know by now?

I wanna know who's suspected to have been organising it.

I think the news here showed a Great British report saying that it's Al Qaeda.

Originally posted by -Tired Hiker-
I think the news here showed a Great British report saying that it's Al Qaeda.

Originally posted by Bardock42
What could have happened? ...wouldn't even surpass 1000 deaths...basically nothing. Well, the planes are expensive I guess....

Well, from what I'm hearing, this could have only been one of at least ten planes. Plus they are till investigating, so who really knows.