Terrorists in the skies and under the bed

London police Deputy Commissioner Paul Stephenson: "We are confident we have disrupted a plan by terrorists to cause untold death and destruction. Put simply, this was intended to be mass murder on an unimaginable scale."

Craig Murray's take: It's "more propaganda than plot", accompanied by middle of the night raids, and confessions likely extracted via torture

Robert Fisk to Paul Stephenson: "I would love to have the Met in Beirut to counter terror in my part of the world."