Another 9/11 Plot Stopped At Heathrow
Posted on 08. Sep, 2009 by Shera Crossan in 9/11, Audio-Video, Events, Feedback, Foreign and Domestic Intelligence, Immigration, Politics, Religion, Science and Technology, Shera Crossan
Three people were convicted today of plotting to blow up planes heading across the Atlantic from London in what would have been the biggest terrorist outrage since the September 11 attacks on America in 2001.
The crown had alleged that the British cell planned to smuggle liquid bombs on to planes and blow up at least seven airliners heading to North America with at least 1,500 people on board. The bombs were so ingenious that they would have evaded airport security. The plot was disrupted in August 2006 when the men were arrested. The discovery of the cell, which was based in London and High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire and intent on launching what counterterrorism officials say was an al-Qaida-inspired suicide mission, led to weeks of chaos at airports in Britain and the US.
The crown said the men planned to smuggle on boardcomponents of a liquid bomb disguised as soft drinks to bypass airport security. The devices would have been assembled during the flight.
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Video footage of tests conducted by government scientists, which were played to the jury, showed the devices producing an explosion powerful enough to blow a hole in an aircraft fuselage. MI5 had captured incriminating statements using covert listening and video devices planted in the east London flat that the cell used as a bomb factory.
US and UK intelligence officials believe the cell was directed by al-Qaida leaders in Pakistan.More
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