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Details of Terror Plot Emerge
Abc News (US) ^ | August 10, 2006 | Richard Esposito, Ned Potter, Jonathan Silverstein and Len Tepper & Staff

Posted on 08/10/2006 12:33:13 PM PDT by WmShirerAdmirer

Suspects Allegedly Planned to Hide Dangerous Chemicals in Modified Sports Beverage Bottles

Aug. 10, 2006 — ABC News has learned the details of an alleged terror plot to bring down nine commercial airliners, using liquids concealed in sports beverage drink bottles.

According to sources, the suspected plotters arrested in London today planned to use liquid or gel explosives, triggered with the flash from a disposable camera.

The plotters planned to leave the top of each bottle sealed and filled with the original beverage, but add a false bottom filled with the explosive. The volatile mixture would have been dyed to match the color of the beverage.

Sources say the suspects believed this would guarantee them safe passage through security, even if they were ordered to sip the beverage to prove it was harmless, sources said.

The flash in a disposable camera, the plotters apparently believed, would have enough power to trigger the homemade explosive.

Experts say there are a number of homemade or easily modified commercial explosives that could have enough power to damage or destroy a jetliner.

A law enforcement source outside the United States provided ABC News with the names of three arrested suspects, believed to be major players in the plot: Rashid Rauf, Mohamed Al-Ghadra and Ahmed Al-Khan.

One of the suspects arrested is a woman, the source said, and not everyone authorities believe would have aided in the attack would have been aboard the planes.

ABC News' Richard Esposito, Ned Potter, Jonathan Silverstein and Len Tepper contributed to this report.

(Photo:Airline passengers wait in a security line as drinks are thrown into the trash at San Jose International Airport in California on Thursday. The United States issued its highest terrorism alert for commercial flights from Britain and raised security for all air travel after a major terror plot was foiled in London. )


TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: airlines; august22; globaljihad; ikantspelkeewirds; islam; jihad; liquidexplosives; londonairlineplot; muslim; terroist; terror; terrorism; terrorists; waronmilitantislam; waronterror; wot
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1 posted on 08/10/2006 12:33:14 PM PDT by WmShirerAdmirer
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To: WmShirerAdmirer

bttt


2 posted on 08/10/2006 12:34:59 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: WmShirerAdmirer
allah is disappointed today...
3 posted on 08/10/2006 12:35:48 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - They want to die for Islam, and we want to kill them.)
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To: WmShirerAdmirer
So Lucosade Sports Extra is code for blow the plane up in the name of Allah? We should be told!
4 posted on 08/10/2006 12:35:57 PM PDT by vimto (Blighty Awaken!)
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To: WmShirerAdmirer

IABF!


5 posted on 08/10/2006 12:36:12 PM PDT by golas1964 ("He tasks me... He tasks me, and I shall have him!")
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To: WmShirerAdmirer
Rashid Rauf, Mohamed Al-Ghadra and Ahmed Al-Khan.

WASPs, no doubt.

6 posted on 08/10/2006 12:36:21 PM PDT by newgeezer ("Hezbollah" is a deception. As they are the 'party of Allah', the accurate rendering is "Hezb'Allah")
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To: WmShirerAdmirer

Soon we will have to fly naked!


7 posted on 08/10/2006 12:37:21 PM PDT by Voltage
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To: WmShirerAdmirer
there is something beyond hatred motivating these people. it's a love of hatred; a love of death; some wicked inspiration to be creatively malicious moves them.

It's murder for fun, with a cause tied in just for spice.

8 posted on 08/10/2006 12:37:32 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (let's all toast islam.)
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To: newgeezer
WASPs, no doubt.

And great-grandmothers to boot. Just goes to show, you can't trust anybody.

9 posted on 08/10/2006 12:38:26 PM PDT by madprof98
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To: WmShirerAdmirer

Be prepared to have cameras taken from you now, at the airport.

I'm glad they caught some of them and are at least aware of what the plan is. I pray they catch them all.


10 posted on 08/10/2006 12:39:17 PM PDT by Lucky9teen (Ask not what the government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.)
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To: 2banana

Allah's thrist for innocent blood (mommies, babies, and civilians) blood was not quenched today.

They will receive 72 lashes, not 72 virgins!


11 posted on 08/10/2006 12:40:09 PM PDT by NoFoxholeAthiests (Religion-of-Peices)
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To: WmShirerAdmirer

I have to hand it to them, these terrorists are not dummies.

This was an ingenious plot that was ONLY foiled by the intelligence we have in place.


12 posted on 08/10/2006 12:40:38 PM PDT by SerpentDove (I heard they're implanting chips in the tinfoil now.)
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To: madprof98
Rather ingenious and scary details. These monsters will stop at nothing.
13 posted on 08/10/2006 12:40:50 PM PDT by GAD
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To: txflake; All

Check this out!

Court releases JI activist

Bureau report

PESHAWAR: Civil judge cum judicial magistrate Rashid Rauf Swati Wednesday released a suspected person after fining him Rs1, 000. The local police Tuesday arrested one Shamsher, son of Sher Bahadur, resident of Saeedabad, along with a non-licensed 30-bore pistol and 18 rounds. Shamsher, who is said to be a member of the Jamaat-e-Islami, was trying to greet NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani during his visit of the Peshawar city, near Pajagi road. He was apprehended by the security staffers of the chief minister. He was produced before the court of civil judge Rashid Rauf Swati, who issued his release orders after fining him Rs1, 000. A large number of JI workers have turned up before the court for releasing the suspected person.



http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/aug2005-daily/11-08-2005/national/n16.htm

The News International Pakistan

Thursday August 11, 2005-- Rajab 05, 1426 A.H.


14 posted on 08/10/2006 12:41:11 PM PDT by WmShirerAdmirer
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To: the invisib1e hand
there is something beyond hatred motivating these people. it's a love of hatred; a love of death; some wicked inspiration to be creatively malicious moves them. It's murder for fun, with a cause tied in just for spice.

Could it be.........


Satan!?! and no, I'm not being sarcastic.
15 posted on 08/10/2006 12:43:25 PM PDT by Lucky9teen (Ask not what the government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't.)
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To: WmShirerAdmirer
How far along into the plot were they? Did they have the explosives, containers, cameras, tickets, etc?

Or is this like those seven Florida guys that were "planning" on blowing up the Sears Tower?

Not that it makes a difference -- lock 'em up, I don't care. Hang 'em high. I'm just curious how far along they were.

16 posted on 08/10/2006 12:44:42 PM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: WmShirerAdmirer
It's only a matter of time before leftist talking heads claim that the plan would never have worked, we were never in any danger, the poor guys were framed, and it's all hype to frighten people.
17 posted on 08/10/2006 12:44:51 PM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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To: WmShirerAdmirer

Heres a thread from several days ago that I now find very chilling given the latest developments.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1679587/posts
Activists Held After Boarding US Plane Searching For Weapons (Scotland)


18 posted on 08/10/2006 12:44:58 PM PDT by crazyhorse691 (Diplomacy doesn't work when seagulls rain on your parade. A shotgun and umbrella does.)
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ABC News has learned the details of an alleged terror plot to bring down nine commercial airliners, using liquids concealed in sports beverage drink bottles.

One of the world's strangely named beverages.....


19 posted on 08/10/2006 12:45:45 PM PDT by edpc (Violence is ALWAYS a solution. Maybe not the right one....but a solution nonetheless)
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To: WmShirerAdmirer

The sick, evil followers of a sick, false, evil belief system. Not a religion in any way shape or form.


20 posted on 08/10/2006 12:46:16 PM PDT by tkathy (Einstein: Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance.)
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