Posted on 08/13/2006 12:40:51 PM PDT by generalhammond
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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How do you fight an enemy that is willing to use their infants as bombs? You can't kill enough of them to make the survivors stop. Well, you can kill enough, but "enough" is "all", unfortunately.
Sorry, I searched first using the keyword "baby" to check.
Political correctness is the handmaiden of al-Qaeda.
Effective airport security requires profiling, not taking water bottles from 70-year-old Swedish grandmothers!
Sick. This fascisit version of Islam is sick.
No, there was a thread yesterday about how they are sleepers and blend in as normal neighbors. To me, testing the milk isn't going to do any good. Unless, it is stuff that will kill you instantly, why would they care. They are going to die anyway.
So how is making the bitch taste it going to help anything?
Have any of you people ever *TASTED* baby formula? I would get snatched outta line and beaten or shot when asked to taste baby formula. I think it smells just as bad fresh as when the lil darlins urp it back up on your shoulder. At the sight of the faces I would be making, I'd be labeled a terrorist for sure...
Japanese in WWII were no different. We didn't need to kill all of them either. It's just that we got the message across to them that we were prepared to kill all of them if that's what it took.
Grandpa didn't understand why he was in a hurry but how does he feel about his son planning to murder his great grandchild? Here we at least say, my boy would never do something like that.
The search function is iffy. I just happened to notice since I have been watching that silly thread for an hour.
"Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us." - Golda Meir
This is beyond SICK. It is straight from the pit of hell.
These people and their religion are nothing less than hideous and evil!
A family friend of Cossor said she had known the arrested mother 12 years and believed her to be innocent.
Average people are ignorant to the point of being indistinguishable from stupidity.
The concept that other cultures migh have value systems and behaviors as foreign the them as the behavior of sharks, never occurs to them.
Everything must conform to their provincial views of everything. Even something as fundamental as the views toward children and, most importantly, the most basic beliefs, such as "right and wrong".
There is otherwise no explanation for irrational remarks like these, in view of the overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
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