A terrorist plot to blow up planes in mid-flight from the UK to the US has been disrupted, Scotland Yard has said.
It is thought the plan was to detonate explosive devices smuggled on to as many as 10 aircraft in hand luggage.
Police arrested about 18 people in the London area and West Midlands after an anti-terrorist operation.

High security is causing delays at all UK airports, Heathrow is closed to incoming flights, and MI5 has raised the threat level to critical.

According to MI5's website, critical threat level - the highest - means "an attack is expected imminently and indicates an extremely high level of threat to the UK".

Home Secretary John Reid confirmed that there had apparently been a plot "to bring down a number of aircraft through mid-flight explosions causing a considerable loss of life".

According to BBC sources the "principal characters" suspected of being involved in the plot were British-born.

from The BBC

Can some body please tell me why people born in Britain,are Britons and have lived in Britain all their lives, enjoying the benefits of this country, will want to blow up a plane carrying fellow Britons, all in the name of opposing the Governemnt's anti-terrorist actions?

How does blowing up planes carrying innocent poeple on holidays or business to earn a living, achieve any worthy goal other than plunging families and friends into a lifetime of pain and sorrow over lost ones?

Are there no better means of resistance and opposition?

Must it be through slaughter of innocent people, a lot of whom actually also opposes the government's actions?

Ignorance!, nothing but ignorance. Stupidity, thats why they dont think of human lives.

um its not ignorance,

unfortunately this terrorists one of the more intelligent people in this world, apparently human loss of life is not their concern, but they definitely get their word and purpose out there by doing what they do (e.g sept 11). its sad and sickening but this is one form of movement that might not be going anywhere for a while unless we do something soon.

terrorists are not stupid, they are people with a logical course but it is the 'logicality' of their actions that we question.

Or maybe they are irrational and try to justify their action by killing innocent people.

krazysage:

terrorists are not stupid, they are people with a logical course but it is the 'logicality' of their actions that we question.

Their cause is not logical. They are cowardly. They blow themselves up so they don't have to live with the consequences while they make up stories about virgins waiting for them in heaven etc so they have inspiration to kill.

Nothing but cowards.

@funloving

how does bombing innocent citizens in lebanon achieve anything?
whats good for the goose should be good for the gender

maybe the government lying to you.

To the Terrorists; may their stomachs roast in hell.

@omonozozo,

A say Amen to your prayer!

I have an additional prayer for the terrorists. May they become impotent in their Allah's heaven. May they never have any erection to do anything with that supply of virgins. And may no amount of Viagra help them fulfil the dreams for which they are so quick to shed innocent blood.

Can anybody shout Amen.

TayoD:

@omonozozo,

A say Amen to your prayer!

I have an additional prayer for the terrorists. May they become impotent in their Allah's heaven. May they never have any erection to do anything with that supply of virgins. And may no amount of Viagra help them fulfil the dreams for which they are so quick to shed innocent blood.

Can anybody shout Amen.

Amen!

You don't use darkness to drive away darkness but Light
You don't use hate to drive away Hate but Love


(But Government have believed in their weapon & military might to bring in peace)

I can c how stupid they are,

I will repeat, they are stupid, dumb ass

how can someone become a business man and trade human lives for virgin enjoyment in heaven. are they stock market?

You should hear the way some of these fundamentalists speak. I heard one such suicide bomber on a tape say they love death as much as the Western world loves life.

Another cleric was saying on TV, "the West has the atom bomb, we have the population bomb". Freaks!

chei, my bodi dey pepper me at some posts, newayz i will reply just this one and disappear!

DRANOEL:

@funloving

how does bombing innocent citizens in lebanon achieve anything?
whats good for the goose should be good for the gender

Except if the goose is constantly picking on the gander and killing her chics unprovoked for 50 yrs!
I am not sure you even stopped to ask hizballah what they achieved with hitting poor isrealis with katyusha rockets almost everyday for 6 yrs! That would be a nice place to start asking you insincere questions.

As for the terrorists, there is no point cursing them it is the fault of western nations who continue to treat this drivel with the same rights as you would accord an American or European or African. I say they do not have a right to waste the time of a jury, just kill them as they come, imagine moussaoiu got to waste our time driving home more pain in that charade called a court case against him!

@david
u couldnt have put in a better way, kudos!!

there is really no need trying to understand these monsters, non at all,as far as i am concerned governments need to really get tough on these bastards. They are here terrorising us, why dont they go join their respective mad armies and fight a war as it should be and stop being cowards? absolute cowards and vile people. To think that these people are home grown as well, i mean actually British citizens, what traitors, treason i believe punishable by death the fuking pigs.




I still say all nations habouring and aiding terrorists should be flattened, completely nuked is what i say the lot of them, evil loving swines.

1. i think this is a reminder to European nations including the USA who keep making it extremely hard for africans to immigrate (based on reasons of fraud and economic ties! what bollocks!) and yet these Arab vermin find it so much easier to just hop on a plane and come here.

2. home grown terrorists! Will someone remind the british govt that these are the first set of people to be deported ASAP? What are they still doing there benefiting from the british govt, obtaining luxuries that are mere dreams in their muslim enclaves and yet turning round to bomb british aircraft!

David

thank you ohhhhhhhhh, thank you you really see it as it is, but knowing Britain, they always want to appear as humanitarians, they will not take action in making sure these swines dont come here let alone be allowed to breed the next generation swines here. Seriouslly it makes me mad. If you see how well thses bastards are doing you wont beleive it. They live in detached houses with thier one million kids , living off benefits and yet the govt does nothing. makes me real mad

STORY

look, those guys are aggrieved. when u bomb lebanon with bombs made in the US and transported thru UK and leading to the death od over 1000people mostly children and women, u hurt people's heart. how do u feel when the lebanese PM cry in front of world press. these western powers are suppressing the world. politically, economically and now psychologically.

these guys have no other means of expressing themselves. remember b4 the iraq war, there were demonstrations in new york,london, paris,rome etc. what happened?the war still happened. so these terrorists see terrorism as the only way to inflict harm on the west. when u say innocent people will die,it is true.and unfortunate, but remember that there are innocent people dying in lebanon, iraq, afghanistan, gaza, west bank, etc okay, those ones are mere statistics eh? are they not human beigns too?

why is it that when 1 person from US/UK dies the world shouts, but when people from other places die it is statistics? eh about 3,000people died on 9/11 and since then,till today, we have heard all sorts of things from US. policy changed, visas, businesses, foreign policy etc. the world changed. but thousands of civilians have died in iraq and it is mere statistics. nonsense.

these terrorists just want the west to have a taste of violence and bloodshed. the only effective weapon they have is terrorism.

solution-stop all wars.

idiots
stupid
nonsense

@ OBJ,

you are seeing things from a narrow perspective, why are they bombing lebanon? Why was hizballah bombing isreal for 6 uniterrupted yrs? Have you stopped to ask WHY this war started in the first place?

Of course cowards have no other way of expressing themselves. why have you not extended the same magnanimity to the poor Jews who have had to defend themselves from aggressors ever since 1948?
How did you expect Isreal to defend/express themselves? sitting at endless "round" tables making peace plans with those whose charter calls for their destruction?

these guys have no other means of expressing themselves. remember before the iraq war, there were demonstrations in new york,london, paris,rome etc. what happened?the war still happened. so these terrorists see terrorism as the only way to inflict harm on the west. when u say innocent people will die,it is true.and unfortunate, but remember that there are innocent people dying in lebanon, iraq, afghanistan, gaza, west bank, etc okay, those ones are mere statistics eh? are they not human beigns too?

Mere rhetoric and sentiments! Are you trying to tell me that TERRORISM is the result of the Iraq war? Why then are palestinians, yemeni, saudis, iraqis, iranians, jordanians, egyptians and other arab folks terrorists? Did the US invade their nations too? Did sept 11 occur as a result of the war in Iraq? Pls be realistic here!
Those "innocent" dying in Iraq, Afghanistan, gaza are killed not by Isreali or US guns but by the guns of their own ARMED MILITIA! Look at Iraq!!!!!!!!

why is it that when 1 person from US/UK dies the world shouts, but when people from other places die it is statistics? eh about 3,000people died on 9/11 and since then,till today, we have heard all sorts of things from US. policy changed, visas, businesses, foreign policy etc. the world changed. but thousands of civilians have died in iraq and it is mere statistics. nonsense.

When thousands die on 7/7 and 9-11, it is a barbaric act worthy of condemnation for it is cowardice to kill thousands who have no idea where your country is on the map! When thousands die in Iraq it is most likely because they were killed by their fellow muslim brethren! No one is bothered after all how many are bothered about Somalia and Darfur?

these terrorists just want the west to have a taste of violence and bloodshed. the only effective weapon they have is terrorism.
solution-stop all wars.

The truth is these terrorists are using terror as a weapon to achieve islamic domination over the whole world! It is the hallmark of a religon that believes the only way to preserve itself is to kill all those who do not believe the same!
The solution is not to stop all wars! In fact which wars are you talking about here? The one hizballah brought on the lebanese or the one saddam inflicted on the iraqis? which wars?

Well i'm glad their evil plans didn't work out well, coz if it did we would probably hear another gist which will be full of sorrow

OBJ

How are they fighting a just cause? don't you think they should pick up arms and go join an army somewhere and fight their enemies? You see the problem is they veiw anyone of a diff belief the enemy.

Was it an act of war to bomb the bus my friend was travelling to work in ,in London? for what? is that war?please i don't care about statistics, one person dying is one too fuking many.  Thousands of lives lost on 9/11,many more as we speak, and you are here trying to quantify. I understand you trying to understand where they are coming from, but bottom line is they wont be so agrieved if they werent hell bent on converting the world to their sick ideologies.

They are a bunc h of hypocrites and blind rebels and i couldn't careless if Israel or indeed America decided to blow all their unborn terrorists to blazes. Enough is enough


You say terrorism is effective, i beg to differ.


They can continue to blown everyone up , sneaking around like rats , but they won't win cause they cowards,i was gonna call them animals, but thats an insult to life. they are scum

only God can save us.

quick question, what will you guys call the niger delta lads that are currently kidnapping oil workers and plating bombs?
they are also terrorists. they are the terrorists that want public support and resort to minimal violence. they want an increase allocation, better development, jobs e.t.c. All logical. there action will be considered ilogical by those profitting from the non disruption caused by their activities.
the tamil tigers that are fighting for their independence resort to violence [suicide bombing]to instill fear in the populace and the government. they are also terrorists. again logical course but ilogical method.
Hizbollah bombing of the american marines led to the withdrawal of the marines from lebanon. Th tamil tigers are doung it and srilanka is now forced to give them autonomy. The Irish did it, the Italian did it, the spannish do it, nigerians are doing it. the recent attack on england was by british citizens.
anyone can be a terrorist. it is not restricted to one ethnic group, sex, class, age group and what ever [don't forget the Brithsh Jamican bomber]. Why do they do it? it works, they have seen the results from srilanka, lebanon, somalia,spain ireland e.t.c. they know that the public in democratic societies control the government and the fastest way to get the government to carry out a action is if public opinion favors it. Fear is their biggest weapon and they use it on the public to carry out their courses [the spannish bombing which led to the loss of the incumbent and the withdrawal of spannish troops from iraq]. their tactics yields fruit but only in situations that will not adversely affect the intret of the countries under attack.
In summary, these guys are not dumb. they know what they are doing. they think they are giving up one for the better of all [their course]. it is the way they carry out their action that we should argue about. Personally i feel you do not punish a child for the sin of the father. But as long as they have a reason to fight, they will continue to exist.

PS. I am not in support of terrorists; I have just performed a research on them.

Poor men do no enter aeroplanes going out of Nigeria so let them sort their sins out.

poor men in naija cannot afford a flight ticket

anyway, terrorism is the only way these guys can get at the west. and they are doing it. if they fight a regular war they'll loose overwhelmingly. why do u think israel which virtually destroyed the mid.east in 6 days in 1967 is finding it hard to stop common hizbolla in about a month now? terror war. that's the only effective weapon these guys have.

the west is greedy the west is partial the west is unfair u can't fight then in a conventional war, u can't win them in a world court, u can't beat them economically so what options are left? tell me.

when the apatheid govt in south africa blocked all peacful means of opposition from the anc, what happened? even mandela and co resorted to some form of violence.

so let us ask america, why does the whole world hate u guys? even the british don't sincerely like the americans.why?

This situation is a creation of the british and american intelligence to divert attention from the middle east crises.

@otokx
Ahh yes here we go. Yes, it's all one big conspiracy right? Maybe we should invite them to Rivers State. I wonder how much of a conspiracy it will be then.

The amount of little intelligence some people display sometimes defies the imagination.

they won't and can't come here because of mosquito and the humidity not to talk of NEPA.

@ O-B-J,

I wont be surprised if u are a terrorist urself with the way u are viewing this thang.
How can some mis-guided bastards inflict harm and death on innocent citizens in the name of terrorism?
These terrorists are just cowards. If they want war they should get on the battlefield and fight soldiers like 'em.
Let em face the Pentagon and other military base camps and leave innocent citizens out of it.


@ Krazysage,
I disagree with u totally by sayin terrorism is not restricted to any ethnic group, religion or class.
The british born terrorists u quote have all been brainwashed by islamic fanatics and they have been persuaded to fight Jihad.
Afterall, countless number of virgins await them in paradise-so they say.

I know all muslims are not terrorists but its very obvious all terrorists are muslims.
It does not matter what research u must have done on terrorists and i think its high time the Western world throw the Human Rights Act into the bin and face this hydra-headed monster with grit and steel.

Some bunch of fanatics cannot just put the whole world under siege because of a stupid cause they r fighting.
Wars are fought on the battlefields and not on passenger aircrafts or WTCs.
The security alert in UK has now reached the critical stage.
Passengers are no longer allowed to carry hand luggages into the cabin. Mobile phones, laptops and iPods are now forbidden on the cabin.
Imagine how boring those long-hour flights will get and its all in the name of some losers fighting a cause.
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