Friday, August 11, 2006
Time: "Thwarting the Airline Plot" - But They Forgot HOW We Thwarted the Plot
Time Magazine has a nice article on how the Muslim plot to bomb 10 airplanes leaving the UK this week was stopped by British intelligence and police...but, for some strange reason, they leave out the reason how the plot was uncovered: the NSA, using the secret phone reconnaissance started by President Bush that the Left criticized, overheard the phone calls made by some of the Muslims and alerted the British government.
This part was ignored by the MSM. We wonder why!
Thwarting the Airline Plot: Inside the Investigation
Imagine if somehow we had such surveillance of Muslims before 9/11 - and we had stopped that attack. The Left would be having hissy fits about how we were fighting Muslim terror worldwide, when they had never attacked us. Hell, they have hissy fits and we were attacked.
Time Magazine has a nice article on how the Muslim plot to bomb 10 airplanes leaving the UK this week was stopped by British intelligence and police...but, for some strange reason, they leave out the reason how the plot was uncovered: the NSA, using the secret phone reconnaissance started by President Bush that the Left criticized, overheard the phone calls made by some of the Muslims and alerted the British government.
This part was ignored by the MSM. We wonder why!
Thwarting the Airline Plot: Inside the Investigation
Wednesday night was a long and troubling one for Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. A bubbling plot by British citizens to blow up airplanes had come to a boil in the past three days, and as British authorities arrested dozens of suspects around London, it was Chertoff's job to coordinate the U.S. defenses. Scary intelligence reports pop up all the time, but this particular terror operation got close enough to being carried out that it rattled even the normally sedate Chertoff. "Very seldom do things get to me," he told Rep. Peter King, the Republican chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, in a phone call late Wednesday night. "This one has really gotten to me."
Chertoff had good reason to be worried. Senior U.S officials have confirmed to TIME details of the plot that led the secretary to ratchet up the color-coded security alert for British-U.S. flights to an unprecedented red for "Severe." A total of 24 individuals were arrested in Britain overnight and, says one senior U.S. official who was briefed on the plot, five still remain at large. Their plan was to smuggle the peroxide-based liquid explosive TATP and detonators onto nine different planes from four carriers — British Airways, Continental, United and American — that fly direct routes between the U.K and the U.S. and blow them up mid-air. Intelligence officials estimate that about 2,700 people would have perished, according to the official.
Imagine if somehow we had such surveillance of Muslims before 9/11 - and we had stopped that attack. The Left would be having hissy fits about how we were fighting Muslim terror worldwide, when they had never attacked us. Hell, they have hissy fits and we were attacked.
