UK Terror Plot Thwarted

[Batman]

      OK, Scotland Yard investigates this plot for months, then busts 18 people and ONLY THEN installs red alert super security?
      Isn't that kind of bassackwards?

Seems like upping the sceurity level would have been a tip that they were on to something, thus ruining the investigation. The terrorists scatter, start planning something else, and we start all over again. As long as you know the general timing of the plot (like they're a month away instead of two days), it's better to keep things quiet and bust the bastards.

 

[LiveStrong]

IN A WAY, the terrorists have won if now we can't bring any liquids or lotions or jels onto planes.

I can see them high-fiving over that victory

 

[Songbird]

You know what I'm saying, though, right? Just one more little piece of liberty shirt on.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

       1. As I understand it, the reason for the super red alert in the UK was uncertainty (which still exists) they'd caught all the plotters, which is a very good reason indeed.
       2.   Not that anything's perfect, but I'd rather the terrorists spent their energies trying to beat airplane security, which is rigorous and easier to make near-foolproof, then that they figured out how many less complicated ways there are to create mayhem in America. Look, here's a method of blowing up airplanes that can be foiled by making people put their shampoo in checked luggage and throwing away their Starbucks containers at the gate. That's hardly draconian police state action. Get a grip, gang.
       3. They didn't kill as many people, but the DC snipers, a pair of nowhere maniacs with a rifle, came a lot closer to shutting down our nation's capital through terrorism than the maniacs who flew an airplane into the Pentagon. That's the sort of terror action that worries me the most. Simple, easy, and no conspiracy with a potential for stool pigeons.