{"id":1567,"date":"2006-08-13T13:52:02","date_gmt":"2006-08-13T17:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1567"},"modified":"2008-05-29T17:21:29","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T22:21:29","slug":"six-lessons-from-the-london-airline-bombing-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1567","title":{"rendered":"Six Lessons from the London Airline Bombing Plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/\/www.johntirman.com\/\"><strong>By John Tirman<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What we now know about the London-based plot to destroy ten civilian airplanes points to six conclusions. <\/p>\n<p>First, what stopped this plot was law enforcement.  Law enforcement.  Not a military invasion of Pakistan, Iran, Lebanon, Egypt, or Iraq.  Old-fashioned surveillance, development of human sources, putting pieces together, and cooperation with foreign police and intelligence services. <\/p>\n<p>Second, the conspiracy &#8211; if it resembles the London bombings of last summer &#8211; will likely be home-grown, another of the growing jihad &#8220;fashion&#8221; in Europe that comprises the new street gangs of this world.  It is not a religious movement, it is not fundamentalism. These are thin veneers. It is at root sheer violence undertaken by young men resentful of many things (not least the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and Lebanon) and ready to kill in return.  Under different cirucmstances, it could be Tamils or Red Brigades or Michigan Militiamen, and has been. <\/p>\n<p>Third, if al Qaeda was involved (allegedly from Pakistan), we can thank the failure of the war in Afghanistan and the cozying up to Musharraf to destroy them. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johntirman.com\/Insight%20jump.html\">continue>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Tirman What we now know about the London-based plot to destroy ten civilian airplanes points to six conclusions. First, what stopped this plot was law enforcement. Law enforcement. Not a military invasion of Pakistan, Iran, Lebanon, Egypt, or &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1567\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-ph","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}