Stratfor on the “Manchester terrorism plot”:
While the plot as described by the British authorities would not have been a significant, strategic threat to the United Kingdom, it could have been quite deadly and could very well have surpassed the July 7, 2005, attacks in terms of final body count. Because of this potential destruction, it is quite possible that the British government decided to err on the side of disruption rather than on the side of prosecution. This is something we have seen in the investigation of several other plots in recent years in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, perhaps most notably in the August 2006 Heathrow plot, in which a cell of operatives was preparing to bomb a series of trans-Atlantic airline flights using liquid explosives.
Wank wank “strategic threat” wank wank wank, wank “quite deadly” wank wank “disruption” wank wank wank “liquid explosives” wank. How the professional analyst knocks off a few knucklechildren out of few facts and a lot of jargon.
(Via Blood & Treasure.)