Aero-News: Quote of the Day

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Aero-News Quote of the Day

"[W]hen you are physically watching young Muslims known to be extremists recording suicide videos, there comes a point in a plot when you have to interfere, and run with what evidence you can get."

Source: An unnamed counter-terrorism official, commenting on Monday's verdicts against three of eight conspirators charged in the foiled August 2006 terror pilot against airliners flying between Britain and the United States. While officials welcomed the guilty verdicts that did come down, they expressed shock and anger the jury was not swayed by what appeared to be overwhelming evidence against all eight members of the clandestine terror cell suspected of planning the attacks. That evidence included copies of "martydom" videos made by all but one of the defendants -- which resembled the farewell messages to family often recorded by Muslim suicide bombers -- and taped discussions of ways to bypass airport security. The alleged terrorists asserted they only planned to set off harmless devices, intended as a protest against so-called mistreatment of Muslims.

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