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...PepsiCo, which owns Sierra Mist, says the commercial, which started airing in February, conveniently ended its official run on Sunday - three days before the foiling of the British terrorism plot was announced and "liquid explosives" became a ubiquitous term. But cable companies are scheduled to dribble out the spot ads until Tuesday, and neither Pepsi nor the normally irony-aware people at The Daily Show -which was still airing the commercial as of Thursday - are stopping them...
...Abdul Waheed, who is believed to be either 19 or 21 and to have converted to Islam within the past year after what some neighbors describe as a troubled adolescence, has been reported by the British media as one of the 24 people arrested in connection with a plot to blow up U.S.-bound airliners. Nor was he the only convert among the named suspects. Among those on a list of 19 suspects named by the Bank of England on Thursday (which did not include Stewart-Whyte) was Oliver Savant, 25, who now goes by Ibrahim Savant and is reportedly...
...details on both the plot and the arrested suspects trickle out, the country remains still at the "critical" threat level. Airport services are slowly returning to normal - though restrictions on hand luggage remain in place - and the government is trying to get back to business as usual under a storm of public criticism. With Prime Minister Tony Blair still vacationing in the Caribbean, Britons are looking to Home Secretary John Reid for answers, which he tends to give only elliptically for fear, he says, of compromising the ongoing investigation...
Five years after 9/11, a group of jihadists - all reportedly British-born Muslims of Pakistani or Kashmiri descent, with connections to operatives in Pakistan and an as-yet undetermined relationship with al-Qaeda - appears to have tried again. And though the plot was foiled apparently thanks to good police work and intelligence-gathering, it nonetheless reignited fears that Osama Bin Laden's brand of mass terror is an ever present threat...
...airline plot, of course, is a reminder that al-Qaeda is far from dead, even if the perpetrators had no direct organizational connection but were simply following the idea. But it may also be a sign that the events of the past five years have changed the dynamics of the Muslim world in ways that have marginalized it, so much so that Bin Laden now faces more compelling contenders for the mantle of champion of jihadist rage...