BRITISH TERROR TRIAL VERDICT PROVES THAT "LAW ENFORCEMENT" CAN'T WIN THE WAR ON TERROR

NYTIMES/REUTERS:

Three Britons were found guilty on Monday of conspiracy to kill using homemade liquid bombs, but a jury failed to agree that they intended to blow up transatlantic airliners in an alQaeda-style attack.

The verdicts came after a high-profile, five-month trial in which prosecutors had argued that eight co-conspirators planned to smuggle explosives onto half a dozen aircraft at London's Heathrow airport and blow them up midway to North America.

After more than 50 hours of deliberation, the 12-person jury was unconvinced by the prosecution's description of a complex airline bomb plot, finding only three of the defendants -- Abdulla Ahmed Ali, Assad Sarwar and Tanvir Hussain -- guilty of a lesser charge of conspiracy to commit murder.

The jury failed to reach a verdict on four other defendants and the eighth was found not guilty on all charges.

...While Ali, Sarwar and Hussain admitted planning to carry out an attack, they said it was intended merely to be a publicity stunt designed to draw attention to videos they had made denouncing British and U.S. foreign policy in Iraq.

... seven of the defendants had recorded statements on video laying out plans to commit a suicide attack. Some of those videos shown in court showed the defendants laughing and joking in between takes as they tried to get their lines right.

When the trial began, prosecutors said the plot centered on seven flights from Heathrow's Terminal 3, each capable of carrying between 241 and 285 passengers.

But recorded conversations between the gang, all British Muslims aged in their 20s, suggested that other terminals and possibly 18 suicide bombers might have been involved.

SO.... THEY HAD MADE MARTYRDOM TAPES, BUT WERE FOUND "NOT GUILTY".

WOW.

• THIS SUGGESTS THAT THE ENEMY HAS TO ACTUALLY CARRY OUT AN ATTACK BEFORE A JURY WILL CONVICT.
• I THINK IT'S BETTER IF WE KILL THEM BEFORE THEY ATTEMPT ANYTHING - WHICH IS WHY WE MUST STAY ON THE OFFENSIVE, AND THAT MEANS MILITARILY.
• IOW: OUR MILITARY - SERVING IN HARMS WAY, OVERSEAS - ARE OUR REAL 1ST RESPONDERS!
  
• REMEMBER: MOST OF THE DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS VOTED AGAINST THE IRAQ WAR - AND EVEN THE GULF WAR, IN 1991.
• THIS MAKE THEM THE PARTY THAT WOULD RATHER NOT FIGHT THE ENEMY - EVEN IF AN ALLY IS INVADED (LIKE KUWAIT) OR UNDER SERIOUS ATTACK (AS IRAQ WAS FROM 2006 UNTIL THE SURGE DEFEATED AL QAEDA).
• THIS PROVES THAT THE DEMOCRATS CAN'T BE TRUSTED WITH NATIONAL SECURITY.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.