>>>>I have an open mind about this. Do you think the "thwarted terrorist attack" this morning was legit or a diversionary tactic? Personally I am skeptical. It seems like every time the polls are down the government announces it has thwarted another terrorist attack. "This one was going to be really bad but we managed to stop it." Oh, did you really? Thoughts?
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>>>My wife was listening to the news all day... and royall republicly pissed off with "how come they all know so much about it... every expert they call has a mouthful to say right off the bat! Dang, back then we had real terrorist attacks in the middle of tourist season, and you wouldn't notice anything on the streets, all the trains and busses and planes flew normally... and here it's a successfully defended attack and all of a sudden a bottle of water is a weapon? C'mon... what was it this time? Liebermann lost? What is it they need attention diverted from? Lebanon? November elections? Or something else we won't know for weeks?"... more or less. It went on and on all day, with breaks though.
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>>>It may as well be the magical anti-elephant powder.
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>>What if they had succeeded? What would you have posted then?
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>Renoir,
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>Just last night on the CBC National News the played an excerpt of a documentary to be aired here the eve of the 9/11 anniversary.
>In it was a description of one Ramsey Yousef (sp?) - who now sits in a max. security jail in the U.S. - conceiving and "test-driving" a liquid-based "bomb" on a Phillipines Airlines flight in 1993. Note that - 1993.
>It worked, but the plane was able to be landed safely in Japan.
>He had placed the bomb on the flight and then got off at the next stop, allowing the timer to do its work.
>After the "success" he set about refining is bombs and recruiting 'staff' to suicide bomb 10 or so planes in flight, all U.S. airlines and all U.S.-bound from Asia.
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>Now all terrorist authorities are fully aware of that plot.
>So riddle me this... why all of a sudden, 13 years after the original attempt, are liquids forbidden on flights? Why not since higher security was instituted?
>Riddle me this... why is it that liquids are forbidden when the perpetrators have been under surveillance for MONTHS and all know persons have been nabbed????
>Riddle me this... why is this ban also relevant to the U.S. and Canada when this all happened in the UK?
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>Note how the Iraq war was displaced in the news by the Lebanon war. Now the Lebanon war has been displaced by the brand new style of terrorist plot?
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>I'll grant that anti-terror units ** might** never have suspected that a passenger plane loaded with people would be used as a bomb. But this liquids issue has been known for far too long to suddenly be a serious problem.

As is typical of politicians at any level, you do something to let everyone know you are there and in control. Waiting 13 years for the government to take action is not too bad. Sometimes it takes longer. :)