September 14th 2009 three British Muslims were imprisoned for at least 30 years for attempt of murder on airlines. These Three Muslims planned to blow up transatlantic airliners with liquid explosives hidden inside pop bottles. This was said to be the most serious case ever handled by the British court. Abdulla Ahmed Ali was the mastermind behind this plan and was sentenced to over 40 years in prison which is the longest sentence ever given out by the British court. This man put dye and oasis soda inside to make the appearance of a regular soda pop. If the plan was successful than approximately 2000 people would have died and if the plane flew over a Canadian or American city around 100 more would have died. However; the plan didn’t work out and they were caught going through security. The intention was that this would be another September 11 incident. This incident led to major chaos as 100s of people were grounded across Europe. This was describing as a case of suicide bombing.
I think that these men deserved their punishments. If he was successful many people would have been killed and that wouldn’t have been good. These men are being charged for attempt of murder and they will have to think about what they did for at least 30 years locked behind bars. Personally I don’t think there was any chance of these men being able to get across security because of how tight it is there. I always thought not being able to bring a certain beverage on an airplane was stupid but, now I understand why this rule is in place.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
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Well Sean, I agree that if many people died it would not have been good. But I also think that the sentances given out by the courts was way to minor for these major offenses. Messages need to be sent to other terrorists and terrorist groups that if you are caught, and you probably will be caught, the reprecussions are immense, and your life will suffer because of it. I am also very glad to hear that the security forces at airports these days are capable of stopping these acts of mass destruction. Finally, the fact that one of these planes could have been destroyed over Canada, is very scary, and I am glad to know that it did not happen.
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