Ri-i-i-inngg!! Hello? alQaeda Calling!

In a time where the NYTreason and other leftists rags continue to give GWB grief over wiretaps and phonetaps, isn't it amazing to read a story like this one?

Brothers Emerge as Key Suspects in U.K. Terror Plot

LONDON — The investigation into a plot to blow up jetliners over the Atlantic zeroed in Saturday on brothers arrested in Pakistan and Britain, one named as a key Al Qaeda suspect who left the family's home in England years ago and the other described as gentle and polite.

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A senior Pakistani security official told The Associated Press that Rauf's arrest prompted an accomplice in the southern city of Karachi to make a panicked phone call to a suspect in Britain, giving the green light for the airliner plot to move forward urgently.

"This telephone call intercept in Karachi and the arrest of Rashid Rauf helped a lot to foil the terror plan," the official said.

A second intelligence official, who described the accomplice as "inexperienced," also said the caller "alerted his associates about the arrest of Rashid Rauf, and asked them to go ahead."