I can’t help but wonder…

Press reports use the word "sophisticated."  And it seems cavalier to trivialize what appears to have been a major and serious danger.  And I hardly know any facts about the event.  But the more I hear about the plot, the more I wonder.  24 guys arrested, according to some 50 guys involved.  A whole bunch of them seem to spill all the beans right away and rat on each other in great numbers.  Um…a British sports drink (which one?).  I guess in theory you can trigger a liquid explosive with a flash camera.  The Internet certainly says you can.  How much practice did they have igniting actual explosions?  How much mid-air assembly of the procedure is required, and at what point do the scheming Pakistanis start to look suspicious?  Do the passengers just stand around and watch?

Of course if only one of the plots had succeeded it would have been terrible terrible terrible.  But, um, was this really a well-developed idea for a terror attack?  Just askin’, as they say…