Posted on 08/13/2006 8:16:58 AM PDT by knighthawk
A HUSBAND and wife arrested in the British terror raids allegedly planned to take their six-month-old baby on a mid-air suicide mission.
Scotland Yard police are quizzing Abdula Ahmed Ali, 25, and his 23-year-old wife Cossor over suspicions they were to use their baby's bottle to hide a liquid bomb.
The theory is one of the reasons security chiefs are now insisting mothers taste babies' milk at check-in desks before allowing them to take bottles aboard flights.
The pair are among up to 23 suspects being questioned over a plot to bring down nine airliners over five US cities, killing thousands of people in the air and on the ground.
The questioning of the group comes as British Government sources yesterday revealed many of those suspects posed as relief workers to travel to al-Qaeda training camps in Pakistan.
It has also been revealed that security services are secretly monitoring "dozens" of fresh plots involving hundreds of suspects which could be unleashed at any time.
One government source said at least 30 priority cases were under urgent investigation.
" All those 30 are seen as serious, determined attacks that will happen unless we stop them," the source said.
Police spent yesterday combing through the Alis' east London housing commission flat for clues.
Cossor took her baby with her to the police station during last week's raids but her son is now being cared for by grandparents.
Cossor's grandfather, Nazir Ahmed, 84, said Abdula had travelled to Pakistan about four weeks ago.
"We didn't understand what the hurry was and why he needed to go," Mr Ahmed said.
A neighbour at the flats where the married couple lived said he would be stunned if claims were true.
"I simply cannot believe he could have been involved in a plot like this. He is religious and seemed to love his family," the neighbour said.
"I would never have dreamed he could have been involved in anything like this."
A family friend of Cossor said she had known the arrested mother 12 years and believed her to be innocent.
"I think it is a case of mistaken identity. The last thing she'd be interested in is terrorism. They are just simple day-to-day people going about their own business," she said.
Police in England have reportedly recovered bottles containing peroxide, including some with false bottoms, from a recycling centre close to the homes of some of the arrested suspects.
It has emerged MI5 agents launched covert intrusions on the homes of some suspects several weeks ago in "sneak and peek" operations to plant listening devices and gather evidence ahead of the arrests last week.
Links between suspects in the jet bomb plot and those behind the London 7/7 attacks have also come to light.
There are reports as many as five of those arrested attended the same terror training camp in Pakistan as two of the July 7 London suicide bombers.
And US intelligence sources said they believed at least two of the suspects had trained in Karachi and met al-Qaeda operatives in the lead up to the 7/7 attacks.
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"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Qur'an should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth"
--Omar Ahmed, Chairman of the Board of CAIR (Council of American Islamic Relations), San Ramon Valley Herald, July 1998
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cowards. the whole lot of them.
Yeah, but if they're willing to blow the wee one up along with everyone else, why would they care if the bottle poisoned the baby? We're not talking about the same kind of people you and I are: these are fanatical, insane death worshipers who have no morals or ANY sense of compassion--not even for their own children. Animals, at least, care for and protect their young.
"Sneak and peek ?" Oh, my lord, their rights were violated...
"It has emerged MI5 agents launched covert intrusions on the homes of some suspects several weeks ago in "sneak and peek" operations to plant listening devices and gather evidence ahead of the arrests last week."
this would have never happened in the U.S. without the ACLU screaming about rights and stuff..not to mention the NYT printing all the details..
Exactly! And which religion would that be? Perhaps that's exactly why you should believe it.
Common thread in all of these neighbor interviews.
Here is yet another one claiming the suspects can't possibly be involved because they are "religious".
How do they think these terrorists should behave while plotting and scheming, if not "normally"?
That's exactly why he would do it.
...these are fanatical, insane death worshipers who have no morals or ANY sense of compassion--not even for their own children. Animals, at least, care for and protect their young.
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Says it all. This is why these people must be exterminated before they kill more of us. It is their sole purpose in life.
In addition to tasting the milk, it should be in clear bottles.
One of the methods the terrs were going to use to smuggle the liquid explosive components was a false bottom in a container.
" All those 30 are seen as serious, determined attacks that will happen unless we stop them," the source said.
Astounding and disturbing. London is under siege by a foreign army. Somehow this has to be connected to Iran and the West's decision to stop Iran's nuclear weapons program. Thank you once again, Jimmy Carter.
What "religion" believes in using their women and children to kill thousands of people?
Does their faith tell them to marry and breed because their women and children are so easiest to sacrifice?
Disgusting pigs.
"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Qur'an should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth"
--Omar Ahmed, Chairman of the Board of CAIR (Council of American Islamic Relations), San Ramon Valley Herald, July 1998
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