But according to wikipedia the whole episode was a sick government joke. “On 18 September, Lieutenant-Colonel (ret.) Nigel Wylde, a former senior British Army Intelligence Officer with decades of anti-terror and explosives experience, declared the plot to be 'fiction'. He said the explosives in question could not possibly have been produced on the plane. "So who came up with the idea that a bomb could be made on board? Not Al Qaeda for sure. It would not work. Bin Laden is interested in success not deterrence by failure," Wylde stated. He further suggested that the plot was an invention of the UK security services in order to justify wide-ranging new security measures that threaten to permanently curtail civil liberties and to suspend sections of the United Kingdom's Human Rights Act of 1998.”
Only last April did the trial of the accused get under way. Since it’s been so long after the “plot” was stopped, no one is interested anymore in the story. This will not play long on TV, because who cares if they are already proven guilty through the media but are actually found to be innocent in a court of law?. Americans will always go with the first sound bite, and ignore the truth as it is played out later.
Let’s face reality, folks. I like fantasy as much as the next one, but as far as actual terrorist attacks and civilian deaths in the world are concerned, more people die from hullahoop deaths than terrorist deaths. Are we to be ruled by a fear of hullahoops??
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