Question Everything

[andrewducker]

Should you be the kind of person who ever feels sceptical about what the news/government feeds you, I highly recommend you read:
1) This piece about the difficulty of actually making the "liquid explosives" that were supposedly going to be used in the recent plot.

2) This piece, which rightly points out that None of the alleged terrorists had made a bomb. None had bought a plane ticket. Many did not even have passports., as well as the fact that a _year_ of survelliance hadn't turned up this plot, which instead came to light under Pakistani interrogation. The Pakistani police being known for the use of torture.

And then watch this video, which is a news piece by MSNBC about what they call "The Nexus of Politics and Terror", when terrorist alerts are announced at politically useful times, in the handy top 10 format.

It's all scary, scary stuff.

Comments

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

While we're busy questioning everything - an admirable activity - I for one would question The Register's expertise on the difficulty or otherwise of making liquid explosives. I know I have had cause to question their expertise on IT in the past, which was their previous home turf.

I am quite agreed, though, that you'd need a lot of air freshener to mask the distinctive odour of a very large rat in all this.

[andrewducker]

Oh, I don't trust the sources above. But they raise good points, and indicate that it's worth reading further.