Massive Terrorist Attack Blocked by British Authorities

[Rain]

Just goes to show the difference between American Authorities and the British Authorities. :p

(Don't get offended anyone lol)


But yeah, great to see this stopped, I have to travel in a few weeks anyway, let's hope there is no major knock on effects.

 

[ryanwh]

Naturally, the stopped disaster in hindsight would be 3 times worse than 9-11. Look, suddenly I feel the war's justified again! How convienient!

 

[Calibre]

This is by no means the first attack they have thwarted either. I remember a similar attack on our airports being thwarted a few months ago...

 

[Wings]

No-one has attempted to link this to the war in Iraq... yet -_-

Leave that to Bush

 

[ryanwh]

They have actually tried to imply connections to al-queda. They've done that a few times in regaurds to domestic terrorists.

 

[Calibre]

Yeah and I remember a certain brazillian man and also a rather thick glove. :-/

Yeah, agreed. But wasn't that blunder low level security compared to MI5 and MI6? On the whole our intelligence has kept alot of people alive it has to said.

I don't understand your comment about the glove though... Have I missed something?

 

[ryanwh]

Well he convinced the country to invade a land with a dictator that kept out al-queda under the pretext of illiminated them, and immediately following that seeing as Saddam was gone, al-queda moved right on into Iraq. So people are pretty stupid(seen one brown skinned enemy of the US, seen em all, they must all agree with each other cus omg they look the same), and it wont be hard to spin this in his favor.

 

[The_Falcon]

Oh hell no, I'm flying to florida tommrow morning -_-
Airport is going to have one hell of a delay....

 

[~embrace.oblivion~]

• 9/11 leads to the war on terror and Afghanistan.
• Iraq invaded over weapons of mass destruction.
• Weapons found to not exist - people want to end the Iraq war.
• 6/6 London Underground Bombings - suddenly the war seems justified again to stop these terrorists.
• More atrocities etc.
• People unhappy over Iraq again.
• 10/8 (8/10) This new terror attempt.
• Could be linked to al-Qaeda/Iraq
• War seems justified.
• More atrocities
• New terror attack.
• Et cetera

Maybe I'm speaking absolute nonsense, but at times the terror attacks seem like someone *cough*Blair*cough* is just telling you to 'STFU and quit complaining'. So we live in a society of fear that may be playing into the governments favour - if they control Iraq, or at least have partial control, they may well end up controlling the oil.
But nobody wanted to know what went through my head a few seconds after I heard of the new threats, so I'll shut up before I'm flamed for believing conspiracy theories (which I don't really.)

I am glad though that such an attack was prevented, so kudos to the police and everyone else involved in thwarting such an awful attack.

 

[Danny]

Man I hate it when shit like this happens, it's scary. I have enough time worrying if I think a plane will crash, now that bluddy terrorist threast are about again. It worries me especially when I'm going on holiday in a few weeks.

 

[Calibre]

@ hydrolic

Well ironically, the next few weeks should be the safest time to travel from a UK airport... Security is going to be at a maximum for quite a long period of time from now on, if they aren't even letting hand luggage on the planes then it will be fine.

@ Myonosken

Oh yeah, I do recall what you mean now! On the whole though they are pretty good at what they do... there efficency certainly relax me... that guy with the "faulty" glove was just a one off, I don't remember too man y blunders before that. Politically, it doesn't seem like just about any party are fit to go into office. Maggie may have made mistakes but at least she had a set of balls... actually she didn't... I hope... she looked like she may well have actually. But you get my drift.

 

[m_artist200]

Actually, i've been trying to figure out exactly WHAT has happened to make airports safer after 9/11 aside from longer lines. Why? I went camping for a week once, and as soon as I got back I left the next day on a family vactation. I guess I didn't empty my backpack too well, seeing as I had a knife in my backpack (which I took my carry-on luggage in). I had missed it when I unpacked, and had no idea it was in there, but still...Surprisingly, I got through 2 airports and got on 2 planes before it was found.

<_< All those millions of dollars into airport security, and an 17 year old kid gets on two planes with a knife. Go bush. -_-

 

[Rain]

They've done that a few times in regaurds to domestic terrorists.

Yeah, those Domestic Terrorists are bad, but the Wild ones are worse.... bloody wild Terrorists... if only they could be Domesticated :P

 

[Kojo]

Hmm.. I see this incedent much more simply.
I just go check the guns, and shake my head.

Regardless of where they are linked, we all wish it would stop.
'Terrorism' gets me mad more than scared. Their plans sort of backfired..

Perhaps it is just my fat-cell pumping, angry, gun wielding American blood.

 

[Megalomania]

Oh yeah, let's all Bush-bash like 2 year olds.
This kind of uneducated silliness is starting to make me sick...

I love the logic here...

"OH YEAH LOOK ITS A DICTATOR WHO WON'T SHOW THE UN HIS COUNTRY AND HAS MUSTARD BOMBS AND OTHER BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS, AND HAS SCIENTISTS WITH PLANS TO MAKE MORE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION.
HE'S OBVIOUSLY NO THREAT EVEN THOUGH HE LIKES TO KILL HIS CITIZENS FOR NO REAL REASON.
LETS LEAVE THEM ALONE, AS ALL THOSE LITTLE IRAQIS SEEM REALLY HAPPY WITH THIS GUY IN POWER"

The caps are there for a reason, and yes. I am being sarcastic...

Right.
Case closed.

 

[Megalomania]

Look, suddenly I feel the war's justified again! How convienient!

Leave that to Bush

Ah yes the Bush magic

I seriously hope he'll get seriously ridiculed if he tries to link these people to the war in Iraq. Unfortunately most people are highly ignorant.

Okay then... ':|

 

[Roman Candle]

There is no way this could have been as big as 9/11. And I do not believe that I'm being told the whole truth, (probably never will, never mind that). For instance, why exactly the use of the word "Disrupted"? "Police disrupted terrorist activity,". What the hell does that actually mean? It's just meaningless and, more to the point, extremely vague. And I simply don't believe the magical timing. I mean, people just start to get annoyed over our being so... What's the word? Oh yes, fucking useless in Israel, and then suddenly there's this huge terrorist threat! Fear the darkies! You are under threat! Kill the darkies! Bomb foreign places! No negotiations with terrorists!

First they tell us that a Jamacan boy is shot because he ran from police, jumped a ticket barriar and was wearing a puffer jacket. Then it turns out that he wasn't wearing a puffer jacket, and he didn't jump a ticket barriar. And if you were being chased by people not in uniforms with guns, wouldn't you run? Then they tell us that they shoot a man in a raid because he was resisting and had a gun. That he was clearly told that he was being raided by the police. Well, it then turned out that none of that was true either. I mean, isn't Blair still saying that they expect to find Weapons of Mass Distraction (whoops, typo)? What about the nabbing of the head of Alqieda in Iraq, supposedly the end of the organisation in all the world. Oh, turns out that was a pathetic exageration. I'm just tired of being given information which has been warped and exagerated. But what really gets to me, what really pisses me off, is how unsubtle it is. How obvious. It's not even convincing. And how it really doesn't seem to matter that no one believes a word that comes from the government's mouth anymore.

edit: I love the use of "Little Iraqis". It's so beautifully patronising. Was that deliberate parody?

 

[Megalomania]

I'll keep it simple for you guys.

Wow. You have completely missed the point of this topic.

:D

I wasn't referring to the topic.
At all. :O

Your post just makes little sense.
There is a sub-topic, in this thread. I was referring to that...

3 posts out of a topic of 23....Wow.

Edit: And the first 1 is referring to Blair's system of policies.

1. It wasn't only 3 posts, those were just 3 that I picked out.
2. It's not just Blair that is critisized for that trait, so the argument still stands.
3. In your original post, you forgot the subtopic, which incidentally, does mention Bush. I YOU read what this is about, you would have know that.

Ah, the irony in both of these posts. I love it. So hypocritical.

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Anyway, back on topic to the terrorist stopping.
Apparently Australia's starting to rethink their ability to deal with possible terrorists.... if I remember correctly, we've banned fluids on planes.
I think I'll re-read the newspaper artical again. Was interesting.
Lots of sunscreen bottles among the confiscated containers.

edit: I love the use of "Little Iraqis". It's so beautifully patronising. Was that deliberate parody?

Maybe.
That whole post was a parody... so I would have to say yes :-/

 

[ryanwh]

Okay then... ':|

Yeah to clarify I was in no way reffering to just Bush on that front. Also, mustard gas is nothing to fight a war over, dont be foolish. Every nation on earth has weaponry to the level of or surpassing the distructive power of mustard gas.
Make your own thread for this. OK this isnt fox news, you can't get invited on the show to talk about Leberman losing or the Israel conflict and then shift it to your talking points about democrates wanting to "cut and run". It doesnt work that way, you wanna talk about that stuff feel free to make a new topic.

 

[Roman Candle]

Do I need to spray you lot the the hose again? Cool down.