Two Days to Disaster ; Massive Terror Plan Foiled 24 Arrested in Dawn Raids Security Alert Raised to Critical Hundreds of Flights Cancelled Millions Wiped Off Airline Shares
Birmingham Post › August 11, 2006
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Terrorists plotting to blow up passenger jets in mid air could have been just two days away from launching their mission to commit "mass murder on an unimaginable scale".
Their plan was to detonate liquid-based explosive devices smuggled in hand luggage on as many as ten aircraft leaving UK airports for the US. If successful the plan, which bore the hallmarks of an al Qaida plot, would have been a terrorist 'spectacular' on a par with the 9/11 atrocity.See the full content of this document
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Two Days to Disaster ; Massive Terror Plan Foiled 24 Arrested in Dawn Raids Security Alert Raised to Critical Hundreds of Flights Cancelled Millions Wiped Off Airline Shares
A joint investigation by MI5, West Midlands Police and the Metropolitan force reached a critical point on Wednesday night and anti-terror officers swooped i...
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