August 11, 2006

Horse 609 - Snakes on a Plane? Not Allowed!

The world by now knows about plans for as many as 11 aircraft bound for the USA and British Police arrests of 20+ suspects. Heathrow airport is in utter chaos as even more stringent security measures are put in place such as banning liquids in hand luggage (goodbye water, duty free alcohol, soft drinks, deodorant, toothpaste), banning all flammable items from hand luggage (goodbye newspapers, books, chocolate bar wrappers, tobacco, teddy bears) and electronic devices (goodbye laptops, iPods, Walkmans, Discmans, Gameboys, watches). In fact things are so severe that people may be asked to remove coats, ties and shoes etc.

In all of this what the media, the police and MI5 have failed to mention is WHEN these purported attacks are supposedly to have occured. All that has been stated so far is that evidence has been uncovered but because of security issues the nature of what sort of evidence and details of logistics can not be released.
At best all we've been officially told is that they were "only days away from a first test", at least this is what MI5 has released.
Now of course I realise that by actually telling us information that a certain degree of secrecy is removed and the ability to be able to carry out a search may be impaired but I want to ask exactly what sort of timeframe we are talking about here. For instance I have details of documented evidence of a plan to destory the Houses of Parliament whilst that are sitting. It involves low grade explosive to be carried into the cellars under cover of nightfall. Moreover, the evidence I have has been independantly verified to be true and correct.


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Of course regular subscribers to these reports will have realised that I refer to none other than a foiled plot which was to have been carried out on November 5... 1605! (exclamation point not factorial 1605 which although rendered as 1605! actually equals approx. 5.58 x 10^4449) My point is that if it has in fact taken say 5 years to come up with enough evidence suitable for an arrest and subsequent conviction, then holding up travellers now is well beyond reason.

What does it actually benefit normal people and travellers when the people responsible have probably already come up with a more devious plan? For arguments sake (and I'm not suggesting this by any stretch of the imagination) a "device" could be sealed in a shipping container at any given cargo port and sent to any other cargo port and remain undetected for extended periods of time before going off with hurrendous force. Just imagine something with 30 times the power of Little Boy or Fat Man on a container ship making its way silently up the Hudson. From the outside it would look like any other container but if controlled by remote could blow apart every building in New York City without even the merest hint of suspicion.

What I am getting at I suppose is that travellers on board a plane have far less potential for destruction than a ship from say Lagos, where security would be far less stringent. So although I admire the vigilance by law enforcement and civil defence forces, I don't think you'll be able to stop a full scale, organised terrorist attack on any named point on the planet... and that's scary.

For the record: I think that the chances of a terrorist nuclear attack within my lifetime are between 90 and 100%

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