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Rocketman ~(Ä)~ - 04 April 2008 12:41 PM

Harry: “Oh come on I quoted a respected web site that can be googled in seconds. Long live freedom of information eh.”

Does that make it right?

I can make a bomb in minutes with simple things I find in your home.  The same with a firearm silencer, etc.  does that make it appropriate to post for all to see?

“With freedom of speech comes responsibilities”, eh?

<sigh>

i think your real problem with the post is that it points out the truth. It makes clear how doomed to failure this plan was.

On 18 September, Lieutenant-Colonel (ret.) Nigel Wylde, a former senior British Army Intelligence Officer with decades of anti-terror and explosives experience, declared the plot to be ‘fiction’. He said the explosives in question could not possibly have been produced on the plane. “So who came up with the idea that a bomb could be made on board? Not Al Qaeda for sure. It would not work. Bin Laden is interested in success not deterrence by failure,” Wylde stated. He further suggested that the plot was an invention of the UK security services in order to justify wide-ranging new security measures that threaten to permanently curtail civil liberties and to suspend sections of the United Kingdom’s Human Rights Act of 1998

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_transatlantic_aircraft_plot#cite_note-43

Hairy, you either sound like a terrorist yourself or one of their defense lawyers, neither of which is endearing you much to the rest of us...who want to live.

I mean, who would have thought that 19 guys armed with nothing but box cutters could bring down 4 planes, kill 3,000 people, bring down 2 100-story building and damage the fortress that is the Pentagon and do $1billion (or was it $1 trillion?) worth of damage?

JentheNeoCon - 04 April 2008 02:50 PM

Hairy, you either sound like a terrorist yourself or one of their defense lawyers, neither of which is endearing you much to the rest of us...who want to live.

I mean, who would have thought that 19 guys armed with nothing but box cutters could bring down 4 planes, kill 3,000 people, bring down 2 100-story building and damage the fortress that is the Pentagon and do $1billion (or was it $1 trillion?) worth of damage?

No Jen the losers involved remind me of the Sears Tower Gang. A ton of bluster but no reality.

However, that being said, let the trial continue and we’ll revisit in six months.

Harry91 - 04 April 2008 06:12 PM

No Jen the losers involved remind me of the Sears Tower Gang. A ton of bluster but no reality.

However, that being said, let the trial continue and we’ll revisit in six months.

The copycat second attempt to bomb the London underground was very amateurish and ineffective, but the intention was there.  Given a second chance they might have honed their skills.