Terror Plot Foiled

THT said:
yeah its an easy flight - but to spain....
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10 Aug 2006 21:22

EasyJet says cancels all London flights Thursday


LONDON, Aug 10 (Reuters) - British low-cost carrier easyJet <EZJ.L> said it had cancelled all flights to and from London airports on Thursday due to heightened security after a foiled bomb plot.

An easyJet spokeswoman said all flights in and out of Gatwick, Stansted and Luton airports were cancelled for the remainder of the day.
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yeah easyjet filghts all cancelled

machester flights all cancelled by BA

ryan air are rumoured to be cancelling flights too.

long long delays if you are travelling, they are also advising not to turn up with any hand luggage to speed up the process.

nin9a
 
Zip said:
Like others have said. Not just me.
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I don't follow - are you attempting to justify what you have said in prvious posts by comparison to other posters?
Zip said:
There would have Been cases where they stopped attacks but did not release detail of them for security reasons and to not panic the public or because they still had some others that they were after but didnt want to alert.
The government does many things we dont know about
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The government is accountable to the public. This an inalienable tenet of our (democratic) constitution as it stands.

I'm not expecting full disclosure of all details. But there are processes to ensure events are handles correctly - Judicial inquiries, for example.

If, as you are so willing to believe, there have been occasions where credible attacks have been foiled, there would be perpetrators (this is at least a relevant assumption in the context of the government curtailing our protectiona and freedom in the name of terror). Where are these perpetrators, how are they being punished, what laws are being used to punish them, how was the money spent in apprehending them, were the correct procedures followed.

Plenty of questions, but a paucity of answers.
 
Tri-Woo-Ox said:
once again they use al Qaeda.. everything seems to be al Qaeda these days and they never have any proof to support these claims.
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"Al-Qaida, literally 'the database', was originally the name of a computer file listing the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Soviets." [25] Dr. Sa'ad Al-Fagih, a surgeon at Peshawar (where the Mujahideen recruiting happened) further explained that the computer database (al-Qaeda) was necessary to fix problems associated with a lack of documentation about the fighters who were recruited. [26][27]
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Tri-Woo-Ox said:
yep, it's a shame that people dont relise that parts of al Qaeda were used by secuity services for covert-operations.
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Fixed:

The MI6 plot to kill Gaddafi for example was going to use Al Qaeda to carry it out.
 
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MookJong said:
Fixed:

The MI6 plot to kill Gaddafi for example was going to use Al Qaeda to carry it out.
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Did they use James Bond as well? What gadgets did Q have?



It's MI5 by the way. ;)
 
JBeck said:
There was no shoot to kill policy. The policy was to react to the threat and remove it, how can one shoot to injure?
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That just a pedantic statement. 'Shoot to kill' was coined within the press and as such has become the accepted phrase for this period in UK politics (Same as 'Near Miss' is a misnomer in flight terms). Long conversations with my father about his numerous tours in Northern Ireland in the period have also indicated that it was also adopted as the phrase of choice by the security services. A more accurate description for the policy would have been 'Shoot first ask questions later' but that's not quite so catchy.
 
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