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New suspect held over UK planes bomb plot
Reuters - 1 hour, 2 minutes ago
LONDON - British police arrested another person on Tuesday in connection with last week's alleged plot by suspected Islamist militants to blow up transatlantic airliners. "The person who was arrested under the Terrorism Act 2000 on suspicion of involvement in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism is in custody at a police station in the Thames Valley area" in Britain's southeast, a police spokeswoman said.
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Bush sees terrorism war 'for years to come'
MCLEAN, United States (AFP) - President George W. Bush seized on last week's alleged plot in Britain to bomb US-bound airliners as evidence that the US-led war on terrorism will last "for years to come."
"America is safer than it has been, but it is not yet safe," Bush said after meeting with senior national security aides and touring the US National Counter-Terrorism Center (NCTC) just outside of Washington.
Bush, flanked by homeland security adviser Fran Townsend, director for national intelligence John Negroponte, and CIA chief Michael Hayden, thanked the NCTC staff, pointing to their "good work" with British counterparts in thwarting the alleged airline bomb plot last week.
"The work going on here really is indicative of the challenge we face, not only this week, but this year and the years to come," in the global war on terrorism sparked by the September 11, 2001 attacks, said Bush.
The president, suffering in the polls because of sky-high gas prices and the unpopular war in Iraq, was on the second day of a week-long push on national security and the economy, two critical issues in the November 7 vote.
The campaign-style push comes one month before the fifth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist strikes and one week after the news of the alleged conspiracy in London to bomb US-bound airliners with liquid explosives.
"The enemy has got an advantage when it comes to attacking our homeland. They've got to be right one time, and we've got to be right 100 percent of the time to protect the American people," said the president.
"I'm proud to report that there's a lot of good folks that are working hard to see to it that we're right 100 percent of the time," added Bush.
NCTC's primary mission is analyzing all terrorism-related intelligence collected by every US agency.
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