Terror.

[lollardfish]

The British Terror Case.

Essential reading for, well, everyone.

Salient details include:

- There was a serious cash inflow from someone, presumably abroad.
- There was no imminent threat.
- The threat was real, and it's not clear to me whether current security systems would have detected it (i.e. whether the liquid would have left detectable residue).
- These people were radicalized by the war in Iraq, although one cannot say whether or not they might have been radicalized without it.
- They were caught through police work, having been under surveillance for more than a year.

Comments

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

The thing is - if we had taken down Saddam Hussein and built a multi-ethnic stable, hell, even semi-stable, democracy in Iraq, I'd be all for it. Not because it'd be good for America, but because it would just be good.

Instead, all those lives and all those dollars to make a place even worse than it was before. It makes me weep.

Or, it makes me go study the Crimean War. Or the Soviets in Afghanistan. Hmmmm. History is tricky.