Then:
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From: gjohn...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yet another phony terror scare
Date: 16 Aug 2006 15:10:21 -0700
http://www.craigmurray.co.uk/archives/2006/08/the_uk_terror_p.html
None of the alleged terrorists had made a bomb. None had bought a
plane
ticket. Many did not even have pass****ts, which given the efficiency
of
the UK Pass****t Agency would mean they couldn't be a plane bomber for
quite some time.
In the absence of bombs and airline tickets, and in many cases
pass****ts, it could be pretty difficult to convince a jury beyond
reasonable doubt that individuals intended to go through with suicide
bombings, whatever rash stuff they may have bragged in internet chat
rooms.
What is more, many of those arrested had been under surveillance for
over a year - like thousands of other British Muslims. And not just
Muslims. Like me. Nothing from that surveillance had indicated the
need
for early arrests.
Then an interrogation in Pakistan revealed the details of this amazing
plot to blow up multiple planes - which, rather extraordinarily, had
not turned up in a year of surveillance. Of course, the interrogators
of the Pakistani dictator have their ways of making people sing like
canaries. As I witnessed in Uzbekistan, you can get the most
extraordinary information this way. Trouble is it always tends to give
the interrogators all they might want, and more, in a desperate effort
to stop or avert torture. What it doesn't give is the truth.
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Now:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=555465&in_page_id=1770&ct=5
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Yesterday eight men went on trial at Woolwich Crown Court in South-
East London accused of conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to commit
an act of violence likely to endanger the safety of an aircraft.
....
Plastic soft-drink bottles were to be the murder weapon - filled with
explosive and connected to a detonator.
The alleged plot led to a ban on liquid containers bigger than 100ml
which is still in force at UK air****ts.
Had it been successful, the death toll would have far eclipsed the 52
killed on July 7, 2005, when four suicide bombers detonated their
rucksacks on the London trans****t system.
And if the conspirators chose to blow themselves up over land, the
number of casualties in the air and on the ground could have exceeded
the Twin Towers attacks in which nearly 3,000 died.
....
The court heard that at the time of the arrests, the bombers were
"almost ready to put their plot into practice".
Police found a USB computer memory stick in Ali's pocket which held
information on flight timetables and security advice on restricted
items for hand luggage and other information about Heathrow Air****t.
All the flight details saved on the stick were for outbound flights
only and not return trips.
It listed United Airlines, Air Canada and American Airlines flights to
Toronto, Montreal, San Francisco, Wa****ngton and New York, all leaving
from Terminal 3 at Heathrow.
The planes targeted were 777, 767 and 763 jets which could carry
between 241 and 285 passengers. All the scheduled flights left
Heathrow within little more than two and a half hours of each other
between 2.15pm and 4.50pm.
The plotters' main interest was with flights leaving between August
and October 2006.
....
Plastic Oasis and Lucozade bottles were to be used by the plotters to
make their liquid bombs.
A hypodermic syringe would be inserted into the base to draw out the
drink and the bomb mixture would be injected in its place.
A homemade detonator called hexamethylene triperoxide and also known
as HMTD would be made from a mixture of household and commercial
ingredients and disguised in AA batteries.
Bulbs and wires would connect the bomb mixture with disposable cameras
to trigger a charge to set it off.
....
"Terrifying, we say, though this concept alone may be it is the
prosecution case that the conspirators did not confine themselves and
did not confine their ambitions merely to the coordinated destruction
in mid-flight of these seven aircraft.
"In conversation between two of the main participants, reference was
made to 'different terminals', and as many as 18 suicide bombers being
involved."
....
Liquid explosives disguised with food colouring and mouthwash would be
smuggled past security and on to the flights.
There they would be hooked up to homemade detonators powered by tiny
camera batteries and set off to cause mid-air carnage, the court
heard.
....
The main ingredient of the homemade bombs was said to be hydrogen
peroxide, commonly used as hair bleach and easily available on the
high street, mixed with other chemicals which the Daily Mail is not
naming.
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