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Old Aug 15, 2006 | 12:31 pm
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Originally Posted by Flaflyer
There was one little blurb on the ABC evening news a couple days ago that NO explosives have been found in the UK raids so far, and very little chemicals to make them. I have not seen this mentioned elsewhere since, as they do not seem to want to talk about it. Why?

There probably is some bad stuff somewhere here, considering the Pakistan-money angle. But. Is it possible that this "plot" might turn out to be 99% a bunch of teenage male fanatics with wild delusions of jihad chatting by email?
Maybe this is really really simplistic but ... couldn't they have put these "plotters" on a no-fly list, or otherwise flag their attempt at a "test run"? I would think they'd have gotten the message then that their "test" had failed?
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