http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1230417,00.html
"Plane Terror Plot Thwarted
Updated: 06:48, Thursday August 10, 2006"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Police say they have disrupted a major plot to blow up planes in mid-flight with explosive devices smuggled aboard as hand luggage.
Sky News has been told the plan was to hit around a dozen planes over UK and US cities.
Police are said to have arrested 20 people in London - the culmination of a major covert counter-terrorist operation lasting several months.
Passengers trying to board international flights from the UK are not being allowed to carry on hand luggage.
The Home Office's level of security - indicating public risk - has been raised from 'severe' to 'critical'.
Sky News' Crime Correspondent Martin Brunt said he understood the threat was imminent and those arrested were mainly young, British-born Asian men.
He said the alleged plan involved people boarding flights and detonating explosives on planes over UK and US cities."
"Asian" in PC Brit-speak usually means Pakistanis.
Note: The following news brief is a quote:
http://www.570news.com/news/international/article.jsp?content=w081006A
British police thwart major terrorist plot to blow up commercial aircraft
August 10, 2006 - 1:43
LONDON (AP) - Police in London say they've thwarted a major terrorist plot to blow up commercial aircraft likely flying between the United Kingdom and the United States, a statement form Scotland Yard said Thursday.
Arrests were made overnight in London by the Metropolitan Police Department's anti-terrorist branch and security service, CNN International reported.
CNN International reported security has been increased at airports across the U.K.
"Today's arrests are the culmination of a major covert counter-terrorist operation lasting several months," Scotland Yard said.
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