Today in the world...

It just seems like something out of a movie, one without a happy ending.

Did you ever think that you would read something like this in the papers, in our lifetime? What of our children?What will the headlines look like in their adulthood? Will they even get to see adulthood?

Today on nytimes.com
Plan Was to Sneak Liquid Explosives on Planes (excerpt)

On Thursday, Britain raised its terror threat assessment by one notch to its highest level, “critical,” meaning an attack was imminent.

The American official said the plotters were planning a “dry run” of the operation in the next few days when they planned to test whether they could board flights simultaneously. If this had worked, a full-scale attack would have been carried out within days, the official said.