"We have foiled mass murder on an unimaginable scale"

[RonBurgundy]

I had forgotten about the mentos/diet coke WMD.

[bbro]

Remember - it is only the mint mentos that work!

[MsSparkie]

I expect the airline industry will take another hit in loss of business due to fear. I'd never fly!!!! Always hated it but it keeps getting worse.

[Kitsune]

Originally Posted by MsSparkie

I expect the airline industry will take another hit in loss of business due to fear. I'd never fly!!!! Always hated it but it keeps getting worse.

You'd honestly give up and let the terrorists, well, terrorize you so easily?

[MsSparkie]

Originally Posted by Kitsune

You'd honestly give up and let the terrorists, well, terrorize you so easily?

It's really airplanes I hate, the feeling of helplessness up there. I have flown to Europe and Mexico and did not like flying one bit.

Add the risks now and it's over the top scary.

I'm sure the amount of fuel they burn so high up is a big factor in global warming...so I say: ban all airplanes!!! LOL

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by MsSparkie

It's really airplanes I hate, the feeling of helplessness up there.

So learn to fly.

[Kitsune]

Originally Posted by MsSparkie

It's really airplanes I hate, the feeling of helplessness up there. I have flown to Europe and Mexico and did not like flying one bit.

Add the risks now and it's over the top scary.

You might want to consider a forum that helps people with their fear of flying, such as this one.

Really, even after this supposed threat there is still little reason to fear getting on an airplane. You'll find more rationale to fear driving a car or riding a bicycle if you're really concerned about injury or death. In fact, you take more of a chance with your life by simply walking out the door each morning. If you take that risk, why not enjoy life and travel a bit? A fear of flying is never fun, but it is irrational and it can be treated, even on your own.

I find it amazing, though, what a mere threat can do. Terrorists don't even need to actually attack people, anymore, to disrupt life, instill fear, and damage economies. They can do all of this, along with changing our political stance, values, and laws by merely making a threat or starting a rumor. We fear terrorists changing our world, but they don't need to. We do it just fine on our own at the mere mention of a potential attack.

If they really wanted to take lives, they would have strolled into the unsecure, now extremely crowded areas of Heathrow wearing explosives wrapped in ballbearings and pushed a button. Why do that when the effect of panic and fear without death is just as bad?

[Undertoad]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/...ive_gel_t.html

The suspected terror plotters arrested in Britain had planned to conceal their liquid or gel explosives inside a modified sports beverage drink container and trigger the device with the flash from a disposable camera.

ABC News has learned exclusively that the plotters planned to leave the top of the bottle sealed and filled with the original beverage but add a false bottom, filled with a liquid or gel explosive. The terrorists planned to dye the explosive mixture red to match the sports drink sealed in the top half of the container.

This, they thought, would ensure that they would be able to pass through security -- even if they were asked to unseal and drink the beverage.

The flash in a disposable camera has enough electrical power, they apparently believed, to set off the homemade explosive.

There are any number of homemade or modified commercial liquids that would have made effective explosives, with enough energy to damage or destroy a plane.

Gatorade: is it in you?

Of course this is still early on, and the facts as reported may or may not be the case.

[Undertoad]

Most news sources are saying that the Brits foiled the plot through deep covert intelligence. If that's the case, well done Britannia. The world owes you a round!

Uh, we'll make it good old Whitbread, though, none of that "sports drink" nonsense.

[footfootfoot]

Kitsune,
Hilarious.
You da bomb.

[MsSparkie]

America's Most Wanted

[9th Engineer]

I don't get it...

[Undertoad]

This one is probably... overstated. Eleven Egyptian students failed to find their way from NYC to Montana fast enough. Nothing to see here, I think, move along.

[xoxoxoBruce]

The news said three of the terrorists had made a trip to Pakistan to meet with persons unknown but authorities suspect it was Osama's boys.

[MsSparkie]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

This one is probably... overstated. Eleven Egyptian students failed to find their way from NYC to Montana fast enough. Nothing to see here, I think, move along.

From your link:
Missing Egyptian Students - Never Intended to Attend University

This is nation wide, with specific region of interest is the eastern seaboard--from Maine to Florida. The predicate for this action is that these individuals are in the U.S. illegally and are wanted for questioning. Approach with caution.

Note: Two actually surrendered; they were not captured. Also, don't be confused by the domain name. "HomelandSecurityUS.com" is not DHS.