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Terror in the skies: and some down-to-earth lessons.
A BREATHTAKING jihadist plot to blow as many as ten U.S. airliners out of the trans-Atlantic sky after take-off from London's Heathrow Airport could well have reprised the horror of 9/11. Still, however thankful all of us must be about the two dozen arrests that have taken place in England and Pakistan since August 10, the preemption of this scheme will prove very discomfiting for liberals and civil-libertarian extremists who have barnstormed for five years against all sensible counterterrorism measures.
First and foremost, the successful thwarting of this plot demonstrates again that there is no substitute for spies. While the investigation was a model of ...
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