Terrorist Plot

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Associated Press - Police in London break up major terrorist plot: British police have arrested 21 people in connection with a bombing plot that they say would have caused "mass murder on an unimaginable scale" on commercial aircraft flying between Britain and the United States.

But you know, the sad thing is I don't believe it. My first reaction on reading the news was: "Here we go again! What crisis or scandal are they trying to divert my attention from, this time? Is this another favour that Poodle Blair is doing for Bush, to boost his image and deflect the criticism for his do-nothing policy in Lebanon? Is this another replay of the arrest and execution of that poor Brazilian guy in the London metro? What really happened?"

What's the world coming to when you can't even trust the government to not lie in serious matters like terrorism? And you know they lie.


Update: It didn't take long. The Bush administration, who was kept informed by the British government of the coming raid, has already used the incident to smear the Democrats as being weak on security:

"US President George W. Bush seized on a foiled London airline bomb plot to hammer unnamed critics he accused of having all but forgotten the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Weighed down by the unpopular war in Iraq, Bush and his aides have tried to shift the national political debate from that conflict to the broader and more popular global war on terrorism ahead of November 7 congressional elections....

His remarks came a day after the White House orchestrated an exceptionally aggressive campaign to tar opposition Democrats as weak on terrorism, knowing what Democrats didn't: News of the plot could soon break....

Bush aides on Thursday fought the notion that they had exploited their knowledge of the coming British raid to hit Democrats, saying the trigger had been the defeat of Democratic Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut by an anti-war political novice....

Snow said Bush first learned in detail about the plot on Friday, and received two detailed briefings on it on Saturday and Sunday, as well as had two conversations about it with British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

But a senior White House official said that the British government had not launched its raid until well after Cheney held a highly unusual conference call with reporters to attack the Democrats as weak against terrorism...."

From Agence France-Presse via Americablog: http://americablog.blogspot.com/