UPDATE...
Cindy's Note: The investigation is still ongoing.
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UPDATE...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,207879,00.html
"UK Agent Infiltrated Suspected Terror Cell That Plotted to Blow Up 10 Jetliners"
Friday, August 11, 2006
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "LONDON — America may have been just days away from another Sept. 11, Department of Homeland Security officials said.
That dire assessment came hours after British police swooped in and arrested 24 people in London Thursday, busting up an alleged terrorist plot to blow 10 packed U.S.-bound jetliners out of the sky over the Atlantic.
The plot was foiled when an undercover British agent infiltrated the UK-based group, and passed information to authorities, FOX News has learned.
Early Friday, the names of 19 of the 24 suspects accused in the plotting were made public by British officials.
And it became clear information that played "a very important role" in the subsequent arrest of the 24 in London was provided to Pakistani officials by British nationals arrested in Pakistan in connection with the plot a week ago, according to a government official there. (Full story)
Five Pakistanis were arrested Friday on suspicion that they served as local "facilitators" for those two Britons, the official said.
The suspects in the plot allegedly planned to smuggle peroxide-based liquid ingredients disguised as sports drinks that could be mixed aboard the flight to produce an explosive compound possibly detonated by a device disguised as a digital camera or audio player, Department of Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff to FOX News' Bill O'Reilly."