Today as we remember the terrorist attacks in London exactly one year ago…
Britain remembers victims of London bombings
Updated Fri. Jul. 7 2006 1:38 PM ET
CTV.ca News Staff
Britain marked the first anniversary of the July 7 London bombings Friday with memorials and a national two-minute silence for the 52 innocent people that lost their lives.
Most of the ceremonies took place in London, where the four blasts went off on three subway trains and a bus during the busy morning rush hour exactly one year ago.
The country’s worst-ever terrorist atrocity, which killed all four bombers, left at least 700 injured, many of them seriously.
The July 7 day of remembrance began with Britain’s Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell, London mayor Ken Livingstone and the capital’s transport chief Peter Hendy laying flowers at King’s Cross station at 8:50 a.m. (3:50 a.m. ET) to coincide with the timing of the attacks.
…word of a terrorist plot came out today that was mercifully foiled.
FBI uncovers plot to attack NYC transport system
Updated Fri. Jul. 7 2006 1:41 PM ET
CTV.ca News StaffThe FBI has disrupted an alleged plot to attack the New York City-area transportation system, law enforcement officials said Friday, as Lebanese authorities reported the arrest of a man wanted in connection with the scheme.
“We have disrupted a terrorist network that was in the planning stages of an attack,’’ the FBI and Department of Homeland Security said in a statement.
FBI agents monitoring Internet chat rooms routinely used by extremist groups discovered the plot aimed at striking a blow at the city’s economy by destroying vital transportation networks, officials said.
[…] The newspaper quoted unidentified counterterrorism sources as saying authorities had unearthed a plot to detonate enough explosives inside the 79-year-old Holland Tunnel to destroy it and send devastating floodwaters through lower Manhattan.
The 79-year-old tunnel runs under the Hudson River between New Jersey and Manhattan and carried almost 34 million vehicles in 2005. […]
The state-run CBC seemed to garner the information for their online story about this Islamofascist terror plot against the United States from the same sources, but as you read it, you can’t help but notice that the network whose on-air anchors call the global war on terror a “‘so-called’ war on terror” strains to avoid calling this a terrorist plot. Indeed, neither the word “terror” nor “terrorist” appear even once in their story in relation to this foiled plot! An amazing feat given the terrorist nature of the story! Instead, they constantly refer to it as “the plot”. They use derivations of the word “terror” only in passing references to other things, three times.
· “In contrast to the recent arrests of terrorism suspects in Miami, the planning originated overseas, officials said.”
· “An anonymous counterterrorism source told the Daily News that Jordanian associates of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, recently killed in a U.S. air strike in Iraq, had pledged financial and tactical support for the plot.”
[They might have mentioned he was the leader of Al-Qaida in Iraq. Nah — not important.]
· “The Republican representative has been one of the most ardent critics of a recent decision by the New York Times to reveal details of a government financial monitoring program aimed at tracking terrorist funding.”
The CTV report says “ “We have disrupted a terrorist network that was in the planning stages of an attack,” the FBI and Department of Homeland Security said in a statement. ” But that entire statement—a rather important one—is entirely missing from the CBC report, which cites the same Associated Press and New York Daily News information as the CTV.
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