SEPARATING VIEWS FROM NEWS
The disruption of the alleged plot to blow up trans-Atlantic flights fails to reassure the world's press, with one pan-Arab paper warning that other UK cells might now act quickly before being discovered, while a Russian daily says further home-grown attacks are "practically inevitable".
A second pan-Arabic commentator echoes the concerns in several countries that past claims of foiled attacks were either false or "exaggerations", to serve what a Hong Kong paper calls "Bush's path of cowboy counter-terrorism".
ADIL DARWISH IN PAN-ARAB AL-SHARQ AL-AWSAT
The capture of this terrorist cell group may push other cells, that have for a long time been planning an operation and have not yet been detected by the police radar, to move quickly before being caught... Most of those arrested are British citizens by birth who embraced Islam, unfortunately, in mosques and centres controlled by extremists. The danger is that the youth has been brainwashed and no longer acknowledges national affinity with the country.
MIKHAIL OZEROV IN RUSSIA'S KOMSOMOLSKAYA PRAVDA
Most of those arrested are young people of Pakistani origin from Birmingham and London, over 20 people... But how many more terrorists are still at large? Experts here think a new attack is practically inevitable.
HUNGARY'S NEPSZAVA
The most shocking factor of the plot is that the participants in it are reportedly British citizens... Muslims living in the West and suffering from discrimination become alienated from the country that has received them and a sense of adversity and possibly hatred builds up in them... The West faces an almost impossible task, it must stop not just terrorism itself but the spiral of hatred too.
ABD-AL-BARI ATWAN IN PAN-ARAB AL-QUDS AL-ARABI
Past experience has shown that most reports of plots were intentional exaggerations to achieve political goals that serve the interests of the war which the duo - Bush and Blair - are waging against Islamic terrorism ... Tony Blair and George Bush are the real fascists... They are the ones who wage wars and commit war crimes in Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan where hundreds of thousands of innocent people are killed.
OKTAY EKSI IN TURKEY'S HURRIYET
What if this is also another claim without substance?... We remember the days following the terrorist tragedy in London last year on 7 July. The British police, upset by this event, had killed an innocent Brazilian electricity technician. Last June, 300 policemen broke into the house of a 23 year-old postman, shot him in the shoulder and caught his brother. Then it was understood that these had nothing to do with terrorism.
BRAZIL'S FOLHA DE SAO PAULO
The police operation which, according to the British government, foiled a terrorist attack on civil aviation, could give Prime Minister Tony Blair ammunition against critics of anti-terror measures in place since 2000... Mistakes by police following a "shoot to kill" policy resulted in the July 2005 killing of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes... Two months ago, the police arrested two Muslim brothers on suspicion of terrorism... Both were released without charge.
HONG KONG ECONOMIC TIMES
The wrong path of the eye-for-an-eye, US-led war on terror has helped terrorism to expand instead... Although Bush's path of cowboy counter-terrorism may be played for a while, it will only increase hatred, encourage terrorism, and spread disaster to the whole world.
MUSTAFA BALBAY IN TURKEY'S CUMHURIYET
Prevention of the plans for airplane operations in the UK is worrying because it demonstrates the level of power reached by the terrorist organisations. The initiatives of the global powers to dominate the whole world and crush even the smallest opposition bring hate and violence. One feeds the other.
AHMAD RAJAB IN EGYPT'S AL-JUMHURIYAH
I wish that President Bush and Tony Blair would ask themselves one question: why were British planes flying to the US chosen? Despite all the evidence, will the Americans and the British learn from this lesson? I doubt it.
KENYA'S STANDARD
British intelligence, police and anti-terror sleuths, working closely with their American counterparts, struck terrorists a major blow by foiling their plan and, better still, saved the lives the terrorists sought to take. The lesson? The war on terror must continue for it is far from won.
SKY NEWS - BY GEORGE GALLOWAY (British MP)
A second pan-Arabic commentator echoes the concerns in several countries that past claims of foiled attacks were either false or "exaggerations", to serve what a Hong Kong paper calls "Bush's path of cowboy counter-terrorism".
ADIL DARWISH IN PAN-ARAB AL-SHARQ AL-AWSAT
The capture of this terrorist cell group may push other cells, that have for a long time been planning an operation and have not yet been detected by the police radar, to move quickly before being caught... Most of those arrested are British citizens by birth who embraced Islam, unfortunately, in mosques and centres controlled by extremists. The danger is that the youth has been brainwashed and no longer acknowledges national affinity with the country.
MIKHAIL OZEROV IN RUSSIA'S KOMSOMOLSKAYA PRAVDA
Most of those arrested are young people of Pakistani origin from Birmingham and London, over 20 people... But how many more terrorists are still at large? Experts here think a new attack is practically inevitable.
HUNGARY'S NEPSZAVA
The most shocking factor of the plot is that the participants in it are reportedly British citizens... Muslims living in the West and suffering from discrimination become alienated from the country that has received them and a sense of adversity and possibly hatred builds up in them... The West faces an almost impossible task, it must stop not just terrorism itself but the spiral of hatred too.
ABD-AL-BARI ATWAN IN PAN-ARAB AL-QUDS AL-ARABI
Past experience has shown that most reports of plots were intentional exaggerations to achieve political goals that serve the interests of the war which the duo - Bush and Blair - are waging against Islamic terrorism ... Tony Blair and George Bush are the real fascists... They are the ones who wage wars and commit war crimes in Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan where hundreds of thousands of innocent people are killed.
OKTAY EKSI IN TURKEY'S HURRIYET
What if this is also another claim without substance?... We remember the days following the terrorist tragedy in London last year on 7 July. The British police, upset by this event, had killed an innocent Brazilian electricity technician. Last June, 300 policemen broke into the house of a 23 year-old postman, shot him in the shoulder and caught his brother. Then it was understood that these had nothing to do with terrorism.
BRAZIL'S FOLHA DE SAO PAULO
The police operation which, according to the British government, foiled a terrorist attack on civil aviation, could give Prime Minister Tony Blair ammunition against critics of anti-terror measures in place since 2000... Mistakes by police following a "shoot to kill" policy resulted in the July 2005 killing of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes... Two months ago, the police arrested two Muslim brothers on suspicion of terrorism... Both were released without charge.
HONG KONG ECONOMIC TIMES
The wrong path of the eye-for-an-eye, US-led war on terror has helped terrorism to expand instead... Although Bush's path of cowboy counter-terrorism may be played for a while, it will only increase hatred, encourage terrorism, and spread disaster to the whole world.
MUSTAFA BALBAY IN TURKEY'S CUMHURIYET
Prevention of the plans for airplane operations in the UK is worrying because it demonstrates the level of power reached by the terrorist organisations. The initiatives of the global powers to dominate the whole world and crush even the smallest opposition bring hate and violence. One feeds the other.
AHMAD RAJAB IN EGYPT'S AL-JUMHURIYAH
I wish that President Bush and Tony Blair would ask themselves one question: why were British planes flying to the US chosen? Despite all the evidence, will the Americans and the British learn from this lesson? I doubt it.
KENYA'S STANDARD
British intelligence, police and anti-terror sleuths, working closely with their American counterparts, struck terrorists a major blow by foiling their plan and, better still, saved the lives the terrorists sought to take. The lesson? The war on terror must continue for it is far from won.
SKY NEWS - BY GEORGE GALLOWAY (British MP)
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