None of the alleged terrorists had made a bomb. None had bought a plane ticket. Many did not even have passports, which given the efficiency of the UK Passport Agency would mean they couldn't be a plane bomber for quite some time.So based on a confession to Pakistani interrogators probably spat out between bloody broken teeth by a guy who left the UK years ago, we have mass arrests and a huge security clampdown that results in close to 30% of all commercial flights in/out of British airports being cancelled for a week.
The UK suspects had been under close observation for over a year without a hint of this supposed plot. This whole thing has been based on a confession almost certainly extracted through torture and therefore almost certainly useless.
Are you feeling scared and compliant yet?
"Scared and compliant"? Nope. Angry and stubborn.
ReplyDeleteSome unpleasant fallout from the liquids-on-planes ban cropped up on the news this evening: a duty-free gift shop outfit is closing up and laying off 70 employees in Vancouver, 150 nation-wide. From the TV visuals it looked as if they sell a lot of Canadian Maple Syrup which, as we now know, could be combined on board with pulverized back-bacon rinds and Moosehead beer into a mixture that could be detonated with an ordinary wind-up Mountie souvenir.
I feel so much safer now. And those 150 folks without jobs? Just collateral damage. The fatherland salutes your sacrifice.