Good police work foiled terror threat

[chat_noir]

Good police work foiled terror threat
Bush talks about "war," but it's more of a police action.

Experts characterize the terrorist threat foiled early Thursday in London as the "most serious" since Sept. 11, 2001. This was the real deal, about which details will become available as the investigation continues.

Candidate George W. Bush loved to lampoon the Clinton administration's emphasis on law enforcement and the legal system as tools against terrorism. They were too wimpy for him; a good, strong military action against a terror-sponsoring state was more his kind of action. And so military action we got. In Afghanistan it was essential, but in Iraq it was not. There it has increased manyfold the number of terrorists targeting the United States and worldwide animosity toward it.

Meanwhile, patient, meticulous police work in Britain and elsewhere identified and monitored this plot by a smallish, nonstate group of criminal terrorists until the need to take them down became urgent.

Early reports say that recent arrests in Pakistan caused British officials to act quickly Thursday morning. So 21 individuals -- perhaps associated with Al-Qaida, but not members of any nation's army -- were arrested, and security was tightened incredibly at U.K. and U.S. airports.

Minneapolis Star Tribune

[Duke Newcombe]

1. are you sure...

...no intelligence organs such as MI5 or the CIA or Pakistans' were involved?

Duke

[wakeme2008]

2. Word is their Muslim neighbors tipped of the Police in the first place

:)

[MadMaddie]

3. The emphasis is Police Work not military bombing of an

entire neighborhood.....

It's been said over and over again that there is a time and place for military action but good solid continuous police work is as valuable as any tool.....but that would mean that our government would have to be willing to work with local police forces....and this * cabal is not...