From Randy at RightWinged.com:

It appears that the Brits have distrupted an extremely large terror plot, involving as many as 20 planes. Turn on FNC now (2am ET), and check this out from Sky News...

Police say they have disrupted a major plot to blow up planes in mid-flight with explosive devices smuggled aboard as hand luggage.

Sky News has been told the plan was to hit around a dozen planes over UK and US cities.

Police are said to have arrested 20 people in London - the culmination of a major covert counter-terrorist operation lasting several months.

Passengers trying to board international flights from the UK are not being allowed to carry on hand luggage.

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[Read the whole thing. It covers a lot of important ground.]

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Curt at Flopping Aces has much more: Major Terrorist Plot In England Foiled

Don't miss Alexandra's coverage here. She'll stay on top of the story as it develops.

Allah and Ian have ongoing coverage here.

Ace: BRITISH THWART MEGA-TERROR PLOT TO BLOW UP SIX UK-US AIRPLANES
SCOTLAND YARD: "PUT SIMPLY, THIS WAS TO BE MASS-MURDER ON AN UNIMAGINABLE SCALE"

Goldstein: “‘Plot to blow up planes’ foiled”

Lorie Byrd: UK Police Thwart Massive Terror Plot

Jawa Report: Brits Foil Major Plot to Bomb US-Bound Planes

*** Update and bump. Original timestamp 04:20. I'll keep updating and bumping this one till it gets too long then start a new one.

"Imminent," "massive" jihad UK plot foiled;
goal: "mass murder on an unimaginable scale"
Michelle Malkin

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I went to bed last night after blogging about the Dearbornistan terror arrests and the still missing 8 Egyptians. Twenty minutes after I went to sleep, the news broke about a massive terrorist plot to blow up several aircraft mid-flight between the United States and Britain using explosives smuggled in hand luggage.

Are the arrests of the Dearborn men, who had airplane manifests and tracfones (which have been used by terrorists to detonate bombs) and the nationwide lookout of the missing Egyptians here a coincidence? Maybe not. AP:

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Hot Air covered developments through the night. One word that you'll note that is missing from first coverage--well here, see for yourselves:

Sky News' Crime Correspondent Martin Brunt said those arrested were mainly young, British-born Asian men.

The missing word is "Muslim." Young, Muslim men from Pakistan. Bloomberg News mentions the word in its report, not to describe the suspects, but only in a stupid bit of editorializing:

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[Read on here.]

I've started a new post here and moved the last few items from this one to that one.

Contributed by Bill Faith on August 10, 2006 at 06:33 AM in Bill Faith, Islamism Delenda Est | Permalink

Comments

Posted by: Randy

(in response to your comments at my blog)

Yeah, that could be on either of our ends man, I have had people tell me they send me trackbacks and I don't get 'em... but boy do I get some trackback spam... I get hundreds a day, but very few trackbacks (or comments for that matter). It's really annoying because I'm able to send them.

Thanks for the tip on the TracFone, I'll let Gramma know!

Posted by: Randy | Aug 10, 2006 5:14:07 AM