Caius Julius Vindex

23 August 2006

Arbusto thanks Pervez for help on ‘baby bottle bomb plot’

Jorge 'Bring Em On' Arbusto explains a point to the press

Reuters news agency reports on 23rd August that the President of Petrolica, Jorge Dubia Arbusto has telephoned President ‘Al Mush’ Pervez and thanked him for Bananistan’s help in foiling a conspiracy to blow up airliners over the Atlantic.

On 10th August the Police announced they had arrested over 20 people and foiled this plot to blow up aircraft travelling to Petrolica using baby feeding bottles and carbonated drinks. They said they had acted on information received from Blairistan and made arrests before police rounded up suspects there…

The Pakistan Foreign Ministry said that:

‘In the context of the London terror plot, U.S. President George W. Bush expressed deep appreciation for Pakistan's role in fighting terrorism and the support Pakistan has been extending internationally.’

However, on 19th August Glen Owen of the Daily Mail reported that Pakistan had not, in fact found any evidence against Rashid Rauf, the so-called ‘terror mastermind’ and the keystone of the ‘terror plot’. He had been accused of sending money back to the UK to allow the alleged bombers to buy plane tickets on the orders of Al Qaeda’s ‘No3’ in Afghanistan.

It seems that two weeks of interrogation later, after an inch-by-inch search of his house and analysis of his home computer, there is insufficient evidence to extradite him. Owen says that there are ‘wider suspicions that the plot may not have been as serious, or as far advanced, as the authorities initially claimed.’