Friday, August 11, 2006  Wall Street Journal editorial on the
British Islamofacist bomb plot  The Wall Street Journal
editorial today, August 11, 2006, on the Islamofacist liquid
bomb plot, here (public link).  Wall Street Journal  'Mass
Murder' Foiled  Friday, August 11, 2006 12:01 a.m.    In this
case the diabolical scheme was to smuggle innocent-looking
liquid explosive components and detonators onto planes. They
could then be assembled onboard and exploded, perhaps over
cities for maximum horror. Multiply the passenger load of a 747
by, say, 10 airliners, and this attack could have killed more
people than 9/11. We don't yet know how the plot was foiled, but
surely part of the explanation was crack surveillance work by
British authorities.  "This wasn't supposed to happen today," a
U.S. official told the Washington Post of the arrests and terror
alert. "It was supposed to happen several days from now. We hear
the British lost track of one or two guys. They had to move."
Meanwhile, British antiterrorism chi