Transatlantic terror threat 3
It looks like there may have been some disagreement between the U.S. and the U.K. with respect to this past week's arrest of terror suspects in Britain. From MSNBC:
A senior British official claims that "an attack was not imminent" and that British authorities wanted to let one of the suspects go ahead with a planned "dry run". This official also suggests "that British police were planning to continue to run surveillance for at least another week to try to obtain more evidence, while American officials pressured them to arrest the suspects sooner".
In other words, the disagreement was all about timing: "Analysts say that in recent years, American security officials have become edgier than the British in such cases because of missed opportunities leading up to 9/11."
NBC News has learned that U.S. and British authorities had a significant disagreement over when to move in on the suspects in the alleged plot to bring down trans-Atlantic airliners bound for the United States.
A senior British official claims that "an attack was not imminent" and that British authorities wanted to let one of the suspects go ahead with a planned "dry run". This official also suggests "that British police were planning to continue to run surveillance for at least another week to try to obtain more evidence, while American officials pressured them to arrest the suspects sooner".
In other words, the disagreement was all about timing: "Analysts say that in recent years, American security officials have become edgier than the British in such cases because of missed opportunities leading up to 9/11."
posted by Michael J.W. Stickings at
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