I think the best article I have seen yet regarding what may or may not have happened.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,1853741,00.htmlFive key questions for anti-terror investigation
· Arrested group were tracked for nearly a year
· Pakistani security services helped watch suspects
Sandra Laville
Saturday August 19, 2006
The Guardian
Nine days ago Paul Stephenson, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police, told the public his officers had thwarted a plot to commit "mass murder on an unimaginable scale".
It was an apocalyptic scenario challenged at the time by journalists, who forced an admission that what was meant by these words was "on a scale never before witnessed in Britain", reducing the potential death toll from tens of thousands to hundreds. Today 23 suspects, two of them women, are being held on suspicion of plotting to commit terrorist offences. While police interrogate them, there are many unanswered questions.
Was there any plot at all?
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,1853741,00.html