Pesky terrorists

...disrupting everyones' Summer holiday plans. Today British police arrested a load of people, claiming they've foiled a massive terrorist plot to explode airliners headed for the USA:

A plot to blow up planes in flight from the UK to the US and commit "mass murder on an unimaginable scale" has been disrupted, Scotland Yard has said. It is thought the plan was to detonate explosive devices smuggled in hand luggage on to as many as 10 aircraft.

At the moment, details are sparse. So, we all have to take this news at face value, I guess.

However, given the record of the British police and the politicians that motivate them, let just say that I have a small doubt in my mind. Remember the big 'ricin' terrorist plot involving, as it turned out, the dangerous posession of apple cores? (yes, I mean the fruit).

I don't know why I doubt it, I have no specific hunches, and maybe they really did foil a big plot. But still...