Shakes here...
Via Matt at The Tattered Coat comes some infuriating, if altogether unsurprising, news. The Bush administration pressured British officials to make arrests in the recently reported foiled terrorist plot at least a week before the British wanted to.
A senior British official knowledgeable about the case said 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. The official spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the case.
In contrast to previous reports, the official suggested an attack was not imminent, saying the suspects had not yet purchased any airline tickets. In fact, some did not even have passports.
That's certainly a different perspective than was originally reported, which suggested that Scotland Yard, in conjunction with American officials, had thwarted an imminent attack to “commit mass murder on an unimaginable scale.”
