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Revealed Terror suspects in 'Easter bomb plot' worked at Manchester airport Mail Online
At least one drove vans for a cargo company which has access to sensitive locations.
A further two had passed security industry checks which enabled them to guard premises overnight, further raising fears that members of the gang - all but one of them Pakistani students - were planning to infiltrate high-profile targets before an attack.
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It was further claimed that some of the men have links to the terror group accused of the devastating Mumbai attacks in India which left more than 170 dead. The group, Lashkar-e-Taiba, or Army of the Righteous, was also blamed for the Lahore cricket atrocity.
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At least two of the arrested men had worked for Manchester Airport-based delivery firm Cargo2Go, the Daily Mail can reveal.
Cargo2go van drivers are supplied with a logo and a list of work
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One Cargo2Go driver, a Brazilian, told the Mail he had been inside secure areas of Manchester and Glasgow airports with minimal security checks. 'To be honest I didn't know you had to have any, as people just wave me through - I drop off the cargo and that's that.'
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Although 11 of the suspects arrived in Britain on student visas, only one is known to have attended a reputable institution, a 26-year-old studying accountancy at Liverpool John Moores University.
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UK: Jihadists who plotted to blow up shopping center had been granted permission to work...
(by David Leppard for THE SUNDAY TIMES, December 13, 2009) via JIHAD WATCH.org ^ | December 15, 2009 12:11 PM | posted by Robert
Posted on December 15, 2009 3:20:33 PM PST by Cindy
Note: The following text is a quote:
UK: Jihadists who plotted to blow up shopping center had been granted permission to work as security guards
Why not? To disallow them would have been “Islamophobic.” “Manchester terror suspects cleared to work as guards,” by David Leppard for The Sunday Times, December 13:
Ten members of a suspected Islamist terror cell, said by MI5 to be plotting to blow up a shopping centre and a nightclub in Manchester, had been granted permission by the Home Office to work as security guards in Britain.
The Pakistani students — who were never charged for lack of evidence — were arrested over an alleged plot to bomb Britain last Easter. Police believed they had conducted “hostile reconnaissance” of the Arndale and Trafford shopping centres and the Birdcage nightclub.
It has now emerged that in the months before the alleged plot, the men were given licences to work as security guards by the Security Industry Authority (SIA), a Home Office body that regulates the private security industry.
They all passed a vetting programme designed to bar criminals and undesirables from taking up sensitive security posts protecting airports, ports and Whitehall buildings from terrorist attack. When arrested, two of the students were working for a cargo firm which had access to secure areas at Manchester airport....
Posted by Robert on December 15, 2009 12:11 PM