Ticketless, Passportless guys without Chemicals shut down Air service.

[elehhhhna]

Is that what we're talking about here?

WHY?

Are we "fighting them over there" because they can't GET HERE?

[flyarm]

1. anybody want to bet they all walk??????????

does this sound like the miami caper????????

wow..that is all i can say..wow!

fly

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. Joe lost. Somebody had to pay. Surrendering your toothpaste

is a small price to pay to relearn the rules of the game: "remain frightened, republicans will protect you"

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. And they said it was likely to happen in "days"???

How fast can you get a passport in Blighty?

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. 48 hours max. All time hysteric frenzy over a media/republican circus.

[Virginia Dare]

4. Yes, this is just another big charade...

to frighten people into submission.

[watercolors]

6. There is going to be a big back lash

Thousands of travelers who spent hours and were put thru such crap, FOR WHAT? hOW ARE THEY TO BELIEVE ANYTHING in the future?

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. Is it true they were coming over by bus if the couldn't cough up airfare?

Like those seven squeegee brothers in Miami?

[elehhhhna]

8. AND Blair wants toextend "hold w/o charges" time to 90 days? Hmmm.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2453348

[NVMojo]

long enough for US mid term elections to be over

[wakeme2008]

9. It is Summer travel season... $1,200 RT London NYC shittttt

I just did a search on US carriers and BA and the RT fares for Aug 28 rt Sep 2 was

United 1232
BA 1221
American 1176
Continental 1223

The cheapest was Air France at 940 But they wanted an US carrier or UK.

[NVMojo]

10. hopefully the people of England and the US get their collective heads out

and start holding these asshole politicians accountable. I still believe this was staged!

[KittyWampus]

11. how did you know they didn't have passports? I can't find that story

please, please, can someone help me?

[seabeyond]

14. ??? i cant answer. but it is a good question.

[KittyWampus]

21. From Dr.Phool's post below:

No passports
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14320452 /

LONDON - NBC News has learned that U.S. and British authorities had a significant disagreement over when to move in on the suspects in the alleged plot to bring down trans-Atlantic airliners bound for the United States.

A senior British official knowledgeable about the case said British police were planning to continue to run surveillance for at least another week to try to obtain more evidence, while American officials pressured them to arrest the suspects sooner. The official spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the case.

In contrast to previous reports, the official suggested an attack was not imminent, saying the suspects had not yet purchased any airline tickets. In fact, some did not even have passports.

[seabeyond]

22. thanks. i just found it too

i am sooooo pissed. i have been listening to dems on a dem and repug board bash those on du for not taking threat seriously, the first day into it. i personally had heard nothing. i didnt go on these threads and didnt have the news on. but listening to the holier than thou shit about how us dems dont take it seriously like, ..... fuck that shit. now i read didnt have passports. i am livid. i am pissed there are so many on this board that want to toe the line like a bunch of damn sheep just to feel safe, i am pissed that dems are getting blame again for the bushco outrageous behavior, i am pissed pissed pissed and pissed some more that all those people had all that crap thrown away because of bushco friggin game.

oh so on edit/...... lol lol found this article and had to run it over to that board and say,...... bush to blame no one believes shit he says. two days into it and look at it fall apart, wink

[seabeyond]

19. here is a good article

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14320452/

[DoYouEverWonder]

12. Who needs to actually do anything

when even just the hint of an attack sends our leaders and the media into a feeding frenzy.

How many billions did this little fiasco just cost all of us?

[sweetheart]

16. Really, at the end of it all

We'll spend a lot of money and then give all those persons free medical care for
life, if they are deemed guilty of a crime.

The little fiasco cost you a labour government in britain, as when the truth breaks
through, and these persons are exhonorated having committed no crime, the winners
will be the british opposition party. Blair is such a moran, tagged and bagged along
with the rest of britain in to bush's back pocket by an outside rimshot...

[seabeyond]

13. 4 to 8 weeks to get our passports here in the u.s. half a year ago.

this is why people jump on these terrorist post. then we get in trouble for not believing. but the thing, time and again, we have been conditioned what is initially true is never NEVER factual and as we wait for the information to change so does the picture we were given

[seabeyond]

15. eoehhhhna need verification they had no passport. where

did you hear this. it is important to all those that had to throw out hundreds of dollar of stuff. wasnt the whole purpose because they thought some might have gotten thru ergo all carry on stuff had to be trashed. if they had no ticket and especially no passport, there is no way there were possible terrorists to get on a plane, causing such extreme measures

[pitohui]

24. link to msnbc news saying this in post 18

plus other news reports

it isn't like some unknown blogger is saying this, it's msnbc, yahoo news, etc.

[seabeyond]

26. yup.... thanks. found it and already took to another board

i hate this administration. they are so fucked. had my rant above in another post

[Hubert Flottz]

17. They might have sent some of Saddam's drones...

tipped with mushrooms.

[Dr.Phool]

18. No passports

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14320452/

Source: U.S., U.K. at odds over timing of arrests
British wanted to continue surveillance on terror suspects, official says

NBC VIDEO
Launch
• Disagreement over terror arrests
Aug. 12: U.S. and British authorities disagreed on when to break up an alleged plot to blow up airliners bound for the United States, officials say. NBC's Lisa Myers reports.


By Aram Roston, Lisa Myers, and the NBC News Investigative Unit
NBC News
Updated: 8:13 p.m. ET Aug. 12, 2006

LONDON - NBC News has learned that U.S. and British authorities had a significant disagreement over when to move in on the suspects in the alleged plot to bring down trans-Atlantic airliners bound for the United States.

A senior British official knowledgeable about the case said British police were planning to continue to run surveillance for at least another week to try to obtain more evidence, while American officials pressured them to arrest the suspects sooner. The official spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the case.

In contrast to previous reports, the official suggested an attack was not imminent, saying the suspects had not yet purchased any airline tickets. In fact, some did not even have passports.

[KittyWampus]

20. OMFG

[pitohui]

23. can i say i told you so? :-)

i didn't know that some didn't have passports, but i'd seen earlier reports that no tickets had yet been purchased, it was even published on yahoo news yesterday

i think a lot of media just relies on people skimming the headlines because sometimes the truth is actually buried down at the bottom of some of these news reports

i would love to have an apology from the scaredy-cats who were posting like mad yesterday about how "grateful" they were that they or their girlfriend or their 12 kittens wasn't blown up on thursday -- we had an extended discussion -- i linked repeatedly that the plotters had not yet bought air tix and no one was in any danger -- but the chicken littles want to be scared, it makes them feel important, like they're the star of their own sick movie

get me off this planet! no intelligent life down here!

[seabeyond]

25. get me off this planet! no intelligent life down here!

i hear ya

[gator_in_Ontario]

27. this needs a kick

here and to the front page of every paper on the planet! K&R