War by another name

From a report in the Guardian Online:

A major terror plot to kill hundreds of people by detonating explosives on transatlantic passenger flights was disrupted overnight, the home secretary, John Reid, said today.

The alleged plot was to cause near simultaneous blasts on as many as ten flights from the UK to the US, using explosives smuggled into passenger cabins inside hand luggage.

Paul Stephenson, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police, said he was confident that a plan "intended to be mass murder on an unimaginable scale" had been thwarted.

Further reports in Haaretz, the Independent, the FAZ, and the FT in German and English.

[Updated] Billmon has written an interesting post about this, a kind of meta-conspiracy theory.