UK Police foil attack. US media ignores.

Via Hugh Hewitt, it seems that the UK police are claiming to have foiled a major Al Qaeda plot, thanks to codebreaking.

SCOTLAND YARD believes it has thwarted an Al-Qaeda gas attack aimed at ministers and MPs in parliament. The plot, hatched last year, is understood to have been discovered in coded e-mails on computers seized from terror suspects in Britain and Pakistan.

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The encrypted e-mails are said to have been decoded with the help of an Al-Qaeda “supergrass”. By revealing the terrorists’ code he was also able to help MI5 and GCHQ, the government’s eavesdropping centre at Cheltenham, to crack several more plots.

The discovery of the suspected Commons nerve gas plot was behind the decision to increase security around parliament this summer.
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The operation to deter the sarin gas attack is referred to in an internal police document obtained by The Sunday Times.

You’ll want to read the whole story…you may as well read it online, via the UK papers, because as of right now, the US press is not reporting on this. Hewitt suggests that perhaps the US press is simply too taken with Cindy Sheehan to cover it. Could be.

Or, you know, maybe the press is too busy trying to find anything that will stick to John Roberts, or covering itself and carping – defensively.