“Key Terror Clues Found 10 Days Ago “… Say what?
August 12th, 2006(CBS/AP) As investigators continued to search the homes of suspects connected with a plot to explode U.S.-bound jetliners, officials tell CBS News the most critical evidence was discovered about 10 days ago when British intelligence agents secretly broke into one residence and found the bomb-making material — both the liquid ingredients and the detonators.
Officials are trying to keep details about the bombs secret in order to prevent other terrorists from copying the design, reports CBS News national defense correspondent David Martin.
But the director for Homeland Security made it clear Friday that these devices have never been seen before.
“We’re going to reengineer what they’ve done. We’re going to see how that differs from things we’ve known about and how it’s the same,” Michael Chertoff said.
The so-called “sneak and peek” job that uncovered the bombs was the beginning of the end game for an investigation that began with a tip from a member of Britain’s Muslim community in the wake of last summer’s subway bombings.
One of the suspected plotters was tracked to Pakistan, where he apparently met with a man named Rashid Rauf, who both U.S. and Pakistani officials say has links to al Qaeda, Martin reports.
Rauf allegedly directed the bomb plot from Pakistan and sent at least one message urging the plotters in London to push ahead more quickly.
Officials say they don’t know whether Rauf was the ring leader or simply a go-between who relayed instructions from senior al Qaeda operatives.
Also Friday, British authorities identified 19 of the 24 people arrested in connection the alleged plot and froze their assets, while investigators probed their movements, backgrounds and finances.
Many of the names released by the Bank of England, acting on an order from the government, were of Muslim origin, many of which are common in Pakistan. The suspects ranged in age from 17 to 35.
Authorities said Thursday the plot would have caused “mass murder on an unimaginable scale.” At least one of the 24 people arrested was reportedly a woman with a small child; another was a convert to Islam.
The Metropolitan Police said late Friday that one of the 24 people was released without being charged.
Police did not identify the person who was released, nor did they say if the person remained a suspect. Twenty-two of the others had their detentions extended through to Wednesday. The final person’s detention hearing was delayed until Monday, but the suspect remained in custody.
In Pakistan, authorities arrested five people, bringing the total number of suspects held there to seven. A Pakistani official said the five Pakistanis were believed to have been helping two British citizens who were taken into custody there a week ago.
Investigators, describing a plot on the scale of the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States, said the attackers planned to use common electronic devices to detonate liquid explosives to bring down as many as 10 planes.
The bombs were to have been assembled on the aircraft apparently with peroxide-based solution and everyday carry-on items such as a disposable camera or a music player, two U.S. law enforcement officials told The Associated Press on Thursday. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because Britain asked that no information be released.
A U.S. law enforcement official in Washington said that at least one martyrdom tape was found during ongoing raids across England. […]
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/11/world/main1889962.shtml
So.
They burgled the houses of these people TEN DAYS AGO, and then set off the drama over a week after they entered the houses of the suspects, with posession of all the facts in advance.
That means that everything that occured on the tenth was not only totally bogus, unneeded and arbitrarily executed to cause painc, but that the whole trail of evidence is contaminated, were the normal rules of evidence in play. It is now clear that the new M|5 ‘threat level’ system is nothing more than a tool to whip up hysteria and disruption on demand…a panic button. They have had over a week to fabricate whatever they want….but I digress….
Even if the whole scenario is true, the purpose of these ‘security forces’ is to preserve ‘our way of life’ by thwarting any bomber, and allowing people to travel, live work and eat normally. What they have done instead, is the complete opposite. They KNEW in ADVANCE that something was being planned, raided the houses in secret, and then THEY unleashed the panic.
THEY put the absurd ‘threat level’ to critical, knowing that there was no threat at all, and that they had ALL the people in this supossed action under ‘unprecedented surveillance’.
If any of this were real, no one would have had their travel plans disturbed, there would be no new and mentally retarded ‘taste your baby’s milk in front of me’ regulations…everyone would be able to continue to do what they need to do without any disturbance; indeed, security at airports should be more RELAXED as the ‘security services’ precisely target the people who they claim are out to do this stuff, stopping them before they crystalize their plans. Obviously this is not the case. They are doing this not for the benefit of everyone, but for some other reason. You can make up your own mind as to what THAT is.
The news has been full of bollocks. On ITV they went into a lab and demonstrated Amonium Tri-Iodide as, “something they would have tried to use”. This is utter nonsense on stilts. Every schoolboy knows that it is very hard to make that substance, and that when you make it, it is so volatile that you cannot even move it without it exploding. Furthermore, you make that substance out of a POWDER and a LIQUID and not just a liquid or liquids alone. The ITV crew that made that report was criminally stupid, and doubly so was the lab guy who prepared the substance. No surprise there.
Pakistan is feeding this nonsense so that they are not on the list of states to be dismantled…or at least, so that they get pushed down towards the bottom.
The whole thing smells very bad indeed. Rancid in fact.
Last night on one of the Islamic channels available on Astra, they are collecting monies for the bombed out people of Lebanon with a telethon. People are calling in and making pledges. One woman called in and asked, “how can we buy an F16 for the government of Lebanon?”.
How we laughed!