Plot to Gas Parliament Foiled

[jimbeaux]

I saw a Scotland yard guy on the news this morning going over this....what is the story from your end?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,166324,00.html

[forever_driving]

Hmm... nothing on BBC or SkyNews. Is this FoxNews' creative reporting?

[GingerNinja]

Baked Beans banned from the Parliamentary restaurant?

[MrsRotty]

First I've heard about it - but I have been out of the country for a fortnight....

[r988]

It was in the papers on the weekend, I think the Pollies produce more gas than the terrorists could hope for though...

[jimbeaux]

forever_driving said:

Hmm... nothing on BBC or SkyNews. Is this FoxNews' creative reporting?

Get the Point? Maybe the BBC needs to get off their ass.

www.voanews.com/english/2005-08-21-voa22.cfm

www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1743818,00.html

www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?ID=12562

www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,16339823%255E2703,00.html

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1206559.cms

[forever_driving]

jimbeaux said:

Maybe the BBC needs to get off their ass.

I'm quite shocked as to why this isn't covered on the BBC or SKY... surely this is newsworthy!!

Oh well, thank god they have the 'First kittens have been cloned' story on their front page

>> Edited by forever_driving on Monday 22 August 15:30

[vetteheadracer]

Good time to gas them all would be when they are not on holiday and also when some of them actually turn up at the House of Parliment.......so never then.......

[timmy30]

Apparently the plan was simple, tie John Prescott up in the basement, force feed him 4 pork pies and a bucket of sprouts just before PM question time and run a hose from his backside into the debating chamber....... it would have been devastation in there.

[andy mac]

No more politicians... Got their heads screwed on these terrorist chaps!

[Plotloss]

Since the hunting fiasco its a non public place isnt it the Commons?

On that basis, I'd have been tempted to let it go...

[timmy30]

Maybe NL will replace parliament with something more locally accountable to the people, say a national network of local representatives who can communicate the peoples needs directly to the government and dispence with the inefficient and expensive parlimentary system where time and effort is wasted debating issues such as security and defense which franky we all agree upon anyway?

[paulhol]

"This weekend a senior officer disclosed that the thwarted plot mentioned in the document involved a gas or chemical “dirty bomb” attack against parliament. “The House of Commons was one of their targets as well as the Tube,” he said "



screw the politicians just make sure they dont get tube!

>> Edited by paulhol on Monday 22 August 17:28