Tue, Sep 09, 2008
Aero-News: Quote of the Day
ANN's Quote of the Day usually derives from current news,
though we reserve the right to pick quotes out of history that have
a bearing on the day's events and issues.
Sometimes, you'll find them timely and in keeping with the
content of the day's news... and sometimes, they'll just be
thought-provoking.
Reader suggestions and comments are welcome... and if
particularly intriguing, timely, or poignant, may themselves become
future Quotes of the Day.
Let us hear from you, folks!
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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