The suspects arrested in Britain and Pakistan over the attempted airliner attacks were well-educated and middle class. Most were second and third generation British subjects and two were white converts. The plot they tried to hatch has all the ear-marks of an Al Qaeda operation, and police and intelligence services suspect that as many as fifty people were involved-- many of them still at large.
We have an attempt to down ten planes and murder thousands of people, a massive international conspiracy, probable Al Qaeda involvement, home-grown terrorists in prison, more running loose eager to have another go and a Muslim community that still doesn't get it. Now can we stop pretending that this is a police matter, put Britain on a war footing, demand the demonstrated loyalty of the Muslim "community," treat the foreign terrorists as enemy combatants and prosecute the home-grown curs as traitors?
Or is continuing to treat every law-abiding Briton as a potential terrorist still acceptable?
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