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The Timeline article is a good example of what I would call the WP 'breaking news syndrome', by which I mean it successfully covers everything which came out while the story was 'front page news', but not subsequent developments.

Any meaningful timeline would start at least 6 months before the arrest, (the beginning of surveillance), and would involve subjects such as the arrest of Rauf in Pakistan, what prompted that arrest and what the consequences were to the UK operation. Also the three trials and sentencing, none of which are covered.

A considerable amount of detail in timeline is credited to unnamed sources, many US, (ie distant from the actual investigation) and much is 'early speculation'. Many details have since been discredited, or at least not substantiated, in court or elsewhere. There is general admission that in the initial response, there was a great deal of 'talking up' (number of planes, state of readiness, number of 'martyr tapes', etc.). Also, a great deal of detail has since emerged about, for example, the role of the US, (aided by Pakistan), in 'forcing the UK's hand' and about also about how UK initially became suspicious and concluded airlines were the probable targets (which they found difficult to prove in court, even though they were able to prove some kind of conspiracy). Whilst initial claims are part of the story, a timeline which fails to indicate which claims were later substantiated and which not, is not doing the reader a service.

I propose a merger with the present article, since info in the 'timeline' is either unreliable or duplicated with either this, or the security reaction article. Pincrete (talk) 12:44, 31 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Done Klbrain (talk) 20:43, 23 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The timeline still contains a great deal of 'breaking news syndrome', ie initial speculation which was never confirmed (and in many cases later contradicted, such as a 'tipoff' alertng UK police and them mounting an infiltration exercise, actually it was a massive surveillance exercise and not a tipoff, but suspicious movements to and from Pakistan by the UK ringleader which initiated that surveillance). A lot of this info is of the "unnamed US/UK sources said" kind.

The role of US intelligence in 'forcing the hand' of the UK police by encouraging the Pakistan arrests (which UK police were adamantly opposed to until after UK operatives had been arrested and evidence secured) is 'glossed over' and no 'go now' message from Pakistan has ever been confirmed by UK police, though they were afraid that a 'fallback' plan might exist and had arranged to arrest the suspects once they were seen finding out about flights in an internet cafe. These planned, coordinated arrests had to be brought forward to an impromptu 'arrest them all' overnight unarmed operation when UK police heard of the arrest of Rauf in Pakistan - UK police were pretty bloody angry at the 'betrayal of confidence', exposing UK and UK police to unnec danger and lack of coordination shown by the US. Pincrete (talk) 11:43, 4 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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