Originally Posted by Points Scrounger
I'm currently reading Richard Clarke's "Against All Enemies" (audio version so I can't go back and cite exactly). He mentioned a plot back then regarding trans-Pacific flights to the USA featuring Islamic "inflight cocktail service" as with the London fellows. I mention this because the response was to (temporarily!) ban liquids/gels on those flights only. His brief description of the details sounded exactly like what we have now.
Even in the eyes of the Filipino Islamic-majority groups that usually are accused of being "affiliated with Al-Qaeda", that wasn't "Islamic 'inflight cocktail service'", but considered "unIslamic 'inflight cocktail service'". Sort of in the same way Hezbollah condemened the 9/11 attacks.
