FEAR FACTOR

A plan 'to commit unimaginable mass murder'

ALARMING intelligence that an attack was imminent was the trigger for police raids which captured 24 terrorist suspects, including two white converts to Islam. ...

US sources claimed last night that substantial sums of money had been wired from Pakistan to two of the alleged ringleaders so that they could purchase airline tickets. One report said they were planning a “dry run”.
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Surveillance on internet traffic between the suspected terrorists indicated that they had considered setting off their devices simultaneously ...
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A number of events are understood to have convinced the counter-terrorist agencies to act. A telephone call about the alleged plot was intercepted, internet communication increased noticeably and two men under surveillance disappeared off the intelligence radar. However, security sources indicated that the key event — thought to be the transfer of funds — had taken place overseas. “It was very close, and it was too risky to allow the surveillance operation to go on for any longer,” one source said.

Don't these people read the newspapers. Western intelligence services are widely reported to be tapping Internet traffic, telephone conversations and finance transfers and yet their operation -- which obviously requires strict secrecy -- is planned using the email, phones and wire transfers of money!
The Times article then names 19 of the supposedly 'innocent until proven guilty' suspects.