Car bomb attacks foiled

[ECH1969]

SCOTLAND YARD has arrested 10 Islamist terror suspects who were thought to be plotting multiple car bombings against targets in Britain in a "follow-up" to the July 7 attacks on London.

The 10 men were detained in co-ordinated dawn raids in London, Derby and Wolverhampton yesterday. They are believed to have been part of a terrorist cell led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the notorious chief of Al-Qaeda in Iraq.

"There is intelligence to suggest that they were planning some sort of attack in the UK," a senior counterterrorism official said. "Things have changed since July 7. There was no way with the intelligence we had that we could let these people carry on doing the sort of thing we think they were planning to do."

The plot is thought to have involved the use of conventional explosives, probably to be loaded into cars and driven into crowded city centres.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1817431,00.html

[Roland99]

1. "chief of Al-Qaeda in Iraq"...I'm so sick of that BULLSH*T name.

It's like Al Qaeda in Iraq should have an office and a corporate charter or something.

[LynnTheDem]

4. And in fact Zarqawi is not al Qaeda.

And in fact bush THREE TIMES refused to allow the US military to take Zarqawi out before his illegal invasion (when Zarqawi was in KURDISTAN, outside Hussein's reach, and under US CONTROL) because then he wouldn't be able to use Zarqawi as his bogeyman.

[pinniped]

2. There they go believing again.

--They are believed to have been part of a terrorist cell led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the notorious chief of Al-Qaeda in Iraq. --

No one can even confirm seeing this big, bad, supreme terra leader worth 20 million USD.

[LynnTheDem]

3. "we're fighting them in Iraq so we don't have to fight them...ummm"

Too bad the terrorists aren't as stupid as rightwingnuts.