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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.

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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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To: longfellowsmuse

If we’re lucky, they’ll stay that way. Our airlines seem best protected. Unless they switch to SAMs.


21 posted on 11/30/2014 6:52:32 PM PST by JimSEA
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To: longfellowsmuse

In the US these days, I’m not sure there are enough people shopping at “malls” to make it worth their while.


22 posted on 11/30/2014 6:53:54 PM PST by nascarnation (Impeach, Convict, Deport)
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To: max americana

PLEASE USE IT OFTEN.


23 posted on 11/30/2014 6:57:48 PM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: GingisK
I think the US government should announce that they will nuke Mecca if that happens. A Ramadan extravaganza.

Better yet...

A preemptive strike.

24 posted on 11/30/2014 7:03:33 PM PST by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: GingisK
I think the US government should announce that they will nuke Mecca if that happens.

That should have happened back on September 12, 2001, following a formal declaration of war against terrorist religion of Islam.

Congress did discuss the idea back then.

25 posted on 11/30/2014 7:05:17 PM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: LucyT

Threat ping.


26 posted on 11/30/2014 7:07:19 PM PST by Jet Jaguar (Resist in place.)
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To: george76

27 posted on 11/30/2014 7:15:16 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: GingisK

If we had nuked Mecca, Baghdad, Tehran, and Damascus in the days immediately after 9-11..... we’d be in a very different world right now...


28 posted on 11/30/2014 7:17:32 PM PST by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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To: george76

Quick!
To combat this, We must strip and grope MORE children, nuns, elderly women, and white Christian males while studiously avoiding any hint of a possible mention that the known threat of Islam is what we should look for!
/ partially kidding, just watch what they do..


29 posted on 11/30/2014 7:21:52 PM PST by Darksheare (People who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: GingisK

To those involved in ISIS or Al Qada, bombing Mecca wouldn’t affect their blood thirst. They need no incentives And it might serve to take down the Saudi royals.


30 posted on 11/30/2014 7:26:06 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: george76

Europe needs more parking lots make it so!


31 posted on 11/30/2014 7:28:13 PM PST by ronnie raygun (Empty head empty suit = arrogant little bastard)
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32 posted on 11/30/2014 7:32:17 PM PST by RedMDer (I don't listen to Liars but when I do I know it's Barack Obama.)
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Al Qaeda plot to blow up 5 passenger planes in Christmas 'spectacular'

33 posted on 11/30/2014 7:32:53 PM PST by LucyT
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To: LucyT

Ratings stunt maybe,...


34 posted on 11/30/2014 7:33:59 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: BenLurkin

BTTT!


35 posted on 11/30/2014 7:35:36 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: unixfox
I think the US government should announce that they will nuke Mecca if that happens. You think our Muslim pResident will do that?

no.........but Israel would....or should.

36 posted on 11/30/2014 8:04:31 PM PST by terycarl
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To: george76

Like I’ve said before: Every terrorist attack = a missile shot at the Kaaba.


37 posted on 11/30/2014 8:07:55 PM PST by struggle
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To: george76

“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 “

I’LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS....


38 posted on 11/30/2014 8:26:00 PM PST by traumer
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To: george76

We need to step up the shipments of food and money to the Muslim world RIGHT AWAY!


39 posted on 11/30/2014 8:32:42 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: longfellowsmuse

Mall attacks in US will not produce the terror harvest ala Nairobi. American police in cities are much better prepared to react with SWAT teams.


40 posted on 11/30/2014 8:34:02 PM PST by entropy12 (Dumb and Dumber to borrow money from China to protect oil flow to China from middle-east.)
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