UK Agent Infiltrated Suspected Terror Cell That Plotted to Blow Up 10 Jetliners

From Friday’s Gribbit Live Broadcast on Wide Awakes Radio
The US Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday that the United States may have come to within days of another terrorist attack on the scale equal to if not exceeding the September 11th 2001 attacks.

This announcement came just hours after authorities in the United Kingdom arrested 24 people in connection with a plan to explode as many as 10 Trans-Atlantic flights bound for the United States. Specific airlines being targeted were US flag carriers United Airlines, American Airlines, and Continental Airlines as well as British carrier British Airways.

The plot sought to smuggle seemingly harmless liquids onto 747, 757, 767, or 777 flights and combine them after take off producing an explosive compound.

In response to this plot, British authorities shutdown all airports in the UK and established new strict guidelines for security banning carry-on luggage save nappies for babies and all liquids save baby formula and medication. The only permissible carry-on materials are travel documents, medications only sufficient to last the flight, wallets and purses that can be placed in a pocket all stored in a clear plastic bag. Business documents, laptops, cell phones and other electronic equipment are also being required to be checked.

FoxNews is reporting that a British counter-terrorism agent infiltrated the UK based cell and passed information onto authorities.

The plot was foiled when an undercover British agent infiltrated the UK-based group, and passed information to authorities, FOX News has learned.

“Important” information on the plot was provided to Pakistani officials by British nationals arrested in Pakistan in connection with the plot a week ago, according to a government official there.

That information played “a very important role” in the subsequent arrest of 24 in London, the official said Thursday.

The suspects allegedly planned to smuggle peroxide-based liquid ingredients disguised as sports drinks that could be mixed aboard the flight to produce an explosive compound possibly detonated by a device disguised as a digital camera or audio player, Department of Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff told Bill O’Reilly.

“I think we were facing the possibility of someone bringing in individual components, each of which would look very innocuous and very common, and literally assembling the bomb in the final minutes on the plane itself,” he said.

Meanwhile, the DHS raised the terror alert level for commercial flights from Britain to the U.S. to code-red. It’s the first time the U.S. has raised the alert level to its maximum since the system was instituted in March 2002. Chertoff said the decision to raise the alert level was made after British officials bumped their terror alert level to their highest.

It is plots like these that are broken up by aggressive counter-terrorism surveillance. But the UK doesn’t have an ACLU filing FOIA suits in federal court every day. The UK has the ability to crack down on these cells. They have the ability to put a counter-terrorism officer inside their cell and gather evidence.

What I don’t understand about the ACLU’s opposition to the NSA program or the Treasury Department program is that the intelligence gathered is only inadmissible in court. It doesn’t mean that it cannot be gathered and exploited in prosecuting the war. And make no mistake, we are in a war. A real life shooting war and it is time that the people of this nation understand that.

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