EAS_Intrepid
MSFC Staff Paramedic
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Well, my friends, I think you've all seen the news...
For those who weren't yet reached by the new developments:
What happened?
A british terrorist cell tried to fulfill a plan that would have ended in the largest disaster since September 11, 2001. They wanted to bomb six (or more) civilian airplanes of western airlines.
How?
They planned to bring six (or more) with fluid-explosives constructed bombs to detonation in different airplanes. This plan was not intended to be a suicide run. The bombs would have been brought aboard the these planes and brought to detonation with time-fuses, like in the Lockerbie-Attack (in which Lybia played a major role).
Who?
According to the British Police Authorities the extremists that planned and tried to execute the crimes are people with Asian roots, which leads me to the conclusion that Jemaah Islamiah, an Indonesian Al-Qaeda partner, might have supported these plans. (THAT IS MY PERSONAL OPINION, BASED UPON HOURS OF READING EVERY BOOK AND LECTURE ABOUT TERRORISM I COULD GET)
The full number of the involved people is stated as 50, the British police detained 21 suspects and I think more will be captured soon. The press also said, that the strike against this plans was the outcome of a long observation and Intelligence gathering period. If find it most notable, that these attacks weren't prevented by bombing a Lebanon house, but by month of detail work and intelligence evalutiation. The British Police (and I bet the MI-5 and MI-6, too) did a great work.
Background on the plans
These attacks are quite similiar to the Lockerbie-Attack from 1988 or the prevented 1991 bombings.
The actual plans that were intended to be fulfilled now are the alternative Al-Qaeda plan to the 9/11 attacks. Osama bin Laden himself interfered with the plannings of the Qaeda committee, because he felt that the attack on a symbol of US economic (the WTC), military (the Pentagon) and the political power (either Camp David or the White House) was a much stronger signal to the world.
The plans of bombs in airplanes however was even in 1999, when the 9/11 plannings began, nothing new. Prior to 1993, when the first attack on the WTC occured, Ramzi Jussuf tried to execute that plan, but the intervention of the Clinton Administration (mainly on the urge of Richard A. Clarke) could prevent it. Ramzi Jussuf was caught after the 1993 WTC bombing, which he directed.
Why do I think that Indonesian terrorist cells are behind the plans?
So, the Police said, Asian fundamentalists. Indonesia is the largest muslim nation on Earth (not all Muslims are extremists, keep that in your mind ALWAYS) and a very poor country with a strong hate of the Western nations. This major hate is fed by Jemaah Islamiah, one of the strongest and toughest terrorist organisation to date. They have noumerous traning camps and since Afghanistan was eliminated as major staging area and Pakistan is said to be a US-Ally Indonesia became their staging ground.
Jemaah Islamiah was always a close partner to Al-Qaeda, much closer than Hezbollah or Hamas, and has the resources to support major terrorist plots.
But the British terrorist cell operated relatively independent, as it is custom to such organisations.
What does it mean?
Well, simply that the Brits saved a lot of lives. And it means that all efforts in the past did not worked out fully. Yes, the terrorists where detained and the bombings prevented, but they got so far that they were nearly able to execute their plans.
Our fight against terrorism will be a long one.
Al-Qaeda stated, that they are patient. They are prepared to fight for more than a century and that they know that they won't reach their "goals" within a decade...
PLEASE NOTE AGAIN, THAT THE CONCLUSIONS ABOUT THE SUPPORT AND THE BACKGROUNDS ARE BASED ON MY PERSONAL LINES OF THOUGT.
For those who weren't yet reached by the new developments:
What happened?
A british terrorist cell tried to fulfill a plan that would have ended in the largest disaster since September 11, 2001. They wanted to bomb six (or more) civilian airplanes of western airlines.
How?
They planned to bring six (or more) with fluid-explosives constructed bombs to detonation in different airplanes. This plan was not intended to be a suicide run. The bombs would have been brought aboard the these planes and brought to detonation with time-fuses, like in the Lockerbie-Attack (in which Lybia played a major role).
Who?
According to the British Police Authorities the extremists that planned and tried to execute the crimes are people with Asian roots, which leads me to the conclusion that Jemaah Islamiah, an Indonesian Al-Qaeda partner, might have supported these plans. (THAT IS MY PERSONAL OPINION, BASED UPON HOURS OF READING EVERY BOOK AND LECTURE ABOUT TERRORISM I COULD GET)
The full number of the involved people is stated as 50, the British police detained 21 suspects and I think more will be captured soon. The press also said, that the strike against this plans was the outcome of a long observation and Intelligence gathering period. If find it most notable, that these attacks weren't prevented by bombing a Lebanon house, but by month of detail work and intelligence evalutiation. The British Police (and I bet the MI-5 and MI-6, too) did a great work.
Background on the plans
These attacks are quite similiar to the Lockerbie-Attack from 1988 or the prevented 1991 bombings.
The actual plans that were intended to be fulfilled now are the alternative Al-Qaeda plan to the 9/11 attacks. Osama bin Laden himself interfered with the plannings of the Qaeda committee, because he felt that the attack on a symbol of US economic (the WTC), military (the Pentagon) and the political power (either Camp David or the White House) was a much stronger signal to the world.
The plans of bombs in airplanes however was even in 1999, when the 9/11 plannings began, nothing new. Prior to 1993, when the first attack on the WTC occured, Ramzi Jussuf tried to execute that plan, but the intervention of the Clinton Administration (mainly on the urge of Richard A. Clarke) could prevent it. Ramzi Jussuf was caught after the 1993 WTC bombing, which he directed.
Why do I think that Indonesian terrorist cells are behind the plans?
So, the Police said, Asian fundamentalists. Indonesia is the largest muslim nation on Earth (not all Muslims are extremists, keep that in your mind ALWAYS) and a very poor country with a strong hate of the Western nations. This major hate is fed by Jemaah Islamiah, one of the strongest and toughest terrorist organisation to date. They have noumerous traning camps and since Afghanistan was eliminated as major staging area and Pakistan is said to be a US-Ally Indonesia became their staging ground.
Jemaah Islamiah was always a close partner to Al-Qaeda, much closer than Hezbollah or Hamas, and has the resources to support major terrorist plots.
But the British terrorist cell operated relatively independent, as it is custom to such organisations.
What does it mean?
Well, simply that the Brits saved a lot of lives. And it means that all efforts in the past did not worked out fully. Yes, the terrorists where detained and the bombings prevented, but they got so far that they were nearly able to execute their plans.
Our fight against terrorism will be a long one.
Al-Qaeda stated, that they are patient. They are prepared to fight for more than a century and that they know that they won't reach their "goals" within a decade...
PLEASE NOTE AGAIN, THAT THE CONCLUSIONS ABOUT THE SUPPORT AND THE BACKGROUNDS ARE BASED ON MY PERSONAL LINES OF THOUGT.