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EXCLUSIVE: Al Qaeda plot to blow up 5 passenger planes in Christmas 'spectacular'
Sunday Express ^
| November 30, 2014
| Donal MacIntyre
Posted on 11/30/2014 6:34:20 PM PST by george76
TERRORISTS are plotting to blow up five European passenger jets in a Christmas "spectacular", security experts say.
The threat has been taken so seriously it came close to leading to an outright ban on all hand luggage, a senior insider has revealed.
Mobile phones and electronic devices could still be banned from plane cabins, with the threat of a 9/11-style coordinated attack on London and other major cities feared imminent.
The warning comes as Whitehall officials admit that a terror strike on the UK is now "almost inevitable" particularly with British jihadis returning from fighting alongside the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
An airport security source told the Sunday Express: "We've been told that five planes are being targeted in a high profile hit before Christmas. They've been waiting for the big one.
...
Home Secretary Theresa May warned that numerous Islamic militants were looking to attack the UK.
She said: "Now the threat is more diverse in terms of the number of groups out there who will be looking to carry out attacks in the West.
(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events; Syria; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; christmas; globaljihad; is; isil; isis; islam; islamicmilitants; islamicstate; moslems; muslims; terrorism; terrorplot
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posted on
11/30/2014 6:34:20 PM PST
by
george76
To: george76
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posted on
11/30/2014 6:37:53 PM PST
by
gaijin
To: george76
Maybe if the British government kowtowed to the jihadis more...
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posted on
11/30/2014 6:38:01 PM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Good Muslims, like good Nazis or good liberals, are terrible human beings.)
To: george76
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posted on
11/30/2014 6:38:02 PM PST
by
onyx
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posted on
11/30/2014 6:38:26 PM PST
by
onyx
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To: george76
Only the JV’s nothing to see move along
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posted on
11/30/2014 6:40:02 PM PST
by
CGASMIA68
To: george76
I think the US government should announce that they will nuke Mecca if that happens. A Ramadan extravaganza.
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posted on
11/30/2014 6:41:54 PM PST
by
GingisK
To: onyx
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posted on
11/30/2014 6:43:15 PM PST
by
max americana
(fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
To: george76
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posted on
11/30/2014 6:44:24 PM PST
by
Eddie01
(Liberals lie about everything all the time.)
To: Blood of Tyrants
Maybe they could offer to recite the Shahada at Prince Charles’ inauguration, should that ever come to pass. After all, there’s no safe course of action than to offer ones self up as a dhimmi.
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posted on
11/30/2014 6:45:06 PM PST
by
John Valentine
(Deep in the Heart of Texas)
To: GingisK
“I think the US government should announce that they will nuke Mecca if that happens. A Ramadan extravaganza.”
That would be the correct thing to do.
To: george76
Nairobi style mall attacks would be my major concern with so many jihadis returning from Syria and Iraq.
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posted on
11/30/2014 6:46:10 PM PST
by
JimSEA
To: GingisK
I think the US government should announce that they will nuke Mecca if that happens. You think our Muslim pResident will do that?
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posted on
11/30/2014 6:46:19 PM PST
by
unixfox
(Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
To: george76
And here we are with the creator of ISIS masquerading as president.
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posted on
11/30/2014 6:46:21 PM PST
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: LucyT; Velveeta
Comment #16 Removed by Moderator
To: Eddie01
>> “Has the Pope seen this?” <<
.
The poope is busy contemplating his navel.
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posted on
11/30/2014 6:48:20 PM PST
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: george76
I’ve pretty much resigned myself to a, ‘when, not if’ scenario for the next go-round.
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posted on
11/30/2014 6:49:27 PM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
To: JimSEA
I am honestly quite surprised that there have not been more mall attacks of this nature. The devil’s soldiers seem obsessed with airplanes.
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posted on
11/30/2014 6:50:05 PM PST
by
longfellowsmuse
(last of the living nomads)
To: george76
“Now the threat is more diverse in terms of the number of groups out there who will be looking to carry out attacks in the West.”
Uh.....no. It is the same group that it always was, moslems.
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posted on
11/30/2014 6:50:38 PM PST
by
gop4lyf
(Claire Wolfe called. She said the Awkward Phase is over.)
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