So... When are we going to start getting any real info..

[annabanana]

about the airline plot? So far I've heard nothing but conjecture and lame-o commentary...

[soothsayer]

1. Brits under rove's direction apprehend fake boogeymen

What else do you need to know?

[billyskank]

10. Rove cannot tell the Metropolitan Police what to do

[soothsayer]

11. ok, rove tells *, * tells the poodle, the poodle dispatches fake

terra-ists, and voila!

[rodeodance]

2. after the election.

[meegbear]

3. The plot was to blow up multiple planes flying from the UK to the US ...

either in one action or in a wave.

The plot was to was to use a "liquid" bomb, one that would explode by chemical reaction. The chemicals were to be brought on by one or more people and mixed/activated in flight.

Heard that on NPR by an interviewed British official. Screw the yanks; goto http://news.bbc.co.uk .

[HereSince1628]

4. Well there is apparently a class of liquid explosives with two components

there is a Wikipedia entry on "Astrolite."

[meegbear]

5. I'll check it out ...

thanks

[annabanana]

6. Out of 21 arrests, we only know the location of 3 !?

And this is the only factual information that has come out so far??

[meegbear]

7. Yep, and they suspect there are up to 50 of them ...

no leaps across the pond for this bear for a while (not that I was actually planning any).

[annabanana]

8. Maybe there ARE only 3.....

I want facts & figures, dammit..
Not the BOO-factor conjecture and commentary!!

[htuttle]

9. Apparently, they arrested them all at home, in their sleep

And police say firearms were not involved.

It sounds like they have no physical evidence whatsoever, so far.

Night-time swoops on suspects
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4779539.stm

[annabanana]

12. 10:17am eastern. . and I'm still waiting

for a shred of factual evidence of this whole operation...

The only things I believe so far:
1) there have been arrests
2) US & UK discussed the operation some time ago.
3) The screaming meamies have thrown air travel into chaos..