NBC: Hair-gel terrorists posed no risk last week: “Cory Doctorow:
An anonymous ‘senior British official knowledgeable about the [hair-gel bombers]‘ told NBC that there was no threat to airplanes last week, that the terrorists had been under surveillance for over a year, and that UK government didn’t plan on arresting these guys until they’d surveilled them a while longer, but moved when they did because of US pressure:
In contrast to previous reports, the official suggested an attack was not imminent, saying the suspects had not yet purchased any airline tickets. In fact, some did not even have passports…
The official shed light on other aspects of the case, saying that while the investigation into the bombing plot began ‘months ago,’ some suspects were known to the security services even before the London subway bombings last year.
(Thanks, David!)
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(Via Boing Boing.)
Interesting reading, whether you believe it or not. It comes from a major news source, and I think if you read the article it’s pretty obvious there was some disagreement over timing, but I’m not sure it’s as bad as the source makes it seem.
Why do you even go there?
Mark
August 13th, 2006
Somebody has to talk about it.
This one was NBC now, so come on… it’s not like it’s some obscure liberal news source
Alan
August 13th, 2006