Invasion of Jihadists’ Privacy Foils Mid-Air Terrorist Plot
Twenty-one British Muslims were arrested in London this morning when their plan to bomb out of the sky flights from the United Kingdom bound for the United States was thwarted. "This was intended to be mass murder on an unimaginable scale," said Paul Stephenson, Department Commissioner of Scotland Yard. It isn’t immediately known if there is a direct Al-Qaeda connection or if this plan was to be executed on the upcoming 5th anniversary of 9/11.
One of the most significant questions should be, "How were the terrorist plans exposed?" The answer: DOMESTIC SPYING. US and UK intelligence have been working on the investigation for months. The same surveillance criticized by Democrats in the United States is the same surveillance that today saved thousands of lives. British Intelligence reports that eavesdropping on phone conversations, surveying private e-mails, following suspects in cars and good old fashioned spying are what cracked the case. An invasion of personal privacy? Perhaps, but what good is personal privacy if one is too dead to enjoy it?Here are some terrorist plots foiled by "illegal spying" in recent years:
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July 2006 - Eight suspects (including an al-Qaeda loyalist) were arrested in a terrorist plot to inflict death and destruction by attacking the Holland Tunnel and subways in New York City used by tens of thousands of commuters.
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June 2006- A plan to attack the Canadian Parliament, take hostages and behead Prime Minister Harper was stopped. Techniques ranged from monitoring electronic communications, from cell phones and landlines to emails and computers, to physically following persons of interest as they move about and talk to others.
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June 2006- Seven men in Florida arrested in an alleged plot against the Sears Tower were part of a group of "homegrown terrorists" who sought to work with al-Qaeda but ended up conspiring with an informant.
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Feb. 2006- Three Ohio men trained by al-Qaeda with links to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi were indicted today on terrorism charges of planning attacks overseas to try to kill U.S. and coalition soldiers in Iraq and other countries, as well as for planning to assassinate Pres. Bush. (One of these terrorists tried to sue President Bush for illegally invading his constitutional right to privacy less than month after his arrest)
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Nov. 2005- Seventeen al-Qaeda thugs in Australia were arrested, their plan thwarted.
That was the short list.
Does Michael Moore still believe there is no terrorist threat? Why do Democrats still oppose the Patriot Act and spying on Terrorists? Did the New York Times miss an opportunity to give the terrorist thugs a heads up? Is there any reason anyone should listen to a liberal on matters of homeland security? Not if history is any teacher.
Cross-posted at Amy’s Blog
August 10th, 2006 at 12:24 pm
Go read the NYTimes.com blog: 9 out of 10 say it is a British and American government (Bush/Blair) conspiracy Plot to keep the war going in Iraq and the war on terrorism going. Does the New York Times know that mommy and daddy’s kids are playing with their computers again?
August 10th, 2006 at 12:29 pm
What else would you expect 9 out of 10 NYTimes readers to say? They’re obviously anti-American, anti-war, anti-Christian conspiracy-mongers who have to blog at the NYTimes because their arguments cannot be taken seriously anywhere else.
August 10th, 2006 at 1:50 pm
Another terrorist plot thwarted?!?!? I almost forgot…it is an election year isn’t it. These are becoming so predictable you can practically set your watch to them. Question: What ever happened to all the terrorists that were caught with all the previous election year thwarted plots? High profile situations with massive media coverage and yet…..no terrorists?!?!? *POOF* into thin air! Thank the Lord Jesus that most people on the planet ain’t this freakin stoopid!!!
August 10th, 2006 at 5:44 pm
Syntax, Wow, George W. Bush is GOOD! Even the terrorists cooperate with him! I suppose he just asked them to pull off the terror plot… what is there reward? It certainly isn’t 72 virgins; they’re all still alive.
August 10th, 2006 at 6:12 pm
Don’t try supporting Bush or the security on their blog Amy they will screen it out. No wonder their subscriptions travel ever so southward.
Syntax, you lefties have two plans. If a terrorist attack occurs, you blame Bush and the Republicans. If they thwart a terrorist attack you call it a publicity stunt. So, the only way to deal with you and your ilk is to block you out and think you do not exist. If you cannot understand what is being said of you – you are useless, as well as stupid.
August 10th, 2006 at 6:35 pm
Bannor, thanks, and well said. I have to wonder what the reaction would be if the circumstances were the same but Al Gore were President? I can just about gaurantee that he’d be hailed as the Messiah, or the best president in the last 100 years.
August 10th, 2006 at 8:10 pm
The clinical diagnosis for syntax’s ailment?
Bush derangement syndrome.
Help IS available.
see the good Doctor at:
http://drsanity.blogspot.com/2005/11/lets-discuss-bush-derangement-syndrome.html
August 11th, 2006 at 5:38 pm
Call me dumb! Call me stupid! But I’m not dumb and stupid enough to buy into this nonsense (again). Reid, Walker, and the rest….high profile and well documented trials and convictions and not just pictures and names of Muslim people. Main-stream media continuously shoves this nonsense down our throats and for what; the Right-wing drop to their knees and start slobbering all over the “hate Liberals” penis like cheap, obedient sluts while the Left continuously refuse to believe these continuous thwarted plots without one single shred of proof. No proof! No perp walks! No trials! No convictions! Fear sells and the fools are buying. Don’t let the terrorists win? Listen to yourselves!!! The terrorists have won because of two-dimensional American wimps who are afraid of their own shadows and use it as an excuse to swallow another “load” of “I must hate Liberals” childishness. Someday, there may be a real terrorist threat and the Right will whine and be afwaid of big bad wibawals while the Left will blow it off as the usual political rhetoric nonsense conveniently broadcasted without terrorists. Boom…… Never cry wolf!