Thank you for checking, I think we all have had that happen. A story you hear that just disappears. This one sounded very odd and very possible!! We will have to watch for this happening again.
One of those arrested in London with explosives worked at Gatwick Airport............
Foiled: The terror strike contained in a bag
By STEPHEN WRIGHT and BEN TAYLOR in London
01apr04
AN al-Qaida plot to launch a devastating bomb campaign in Britain has been foiled.
A two-metre high plastic bag filled with three times the amount of explosive used in Bali has been seized in Britain's biggest anti-terrorism operation.
A gang made up of British Muslims could have been within days of striking a range of "soft targets" including buses and nightclubs, say detectives.
Eight suspects, among them three teenagers, were arrested and two dozen properties raided this week as 700 officers swooped in the country's biggest anti-terrorism operation.
More than half a tonne of fertiliser of a type used in recent bomb attacks across the world was seized.
It was thought the gang planned to carry out simultaneous "spectacular" attacks across London and the southeast similar to last month's Madrid massacre. Detectives believe they could also have been intending to launch a huge truck bomb attack on a single target, similar to the Bali outrage in which 202 died.
Shopping centres around the M25 motorway could also have been targeted, as well as the US Navy's European HQ and the Jordanian Embassy in London.
>>>>>>>At least one of the homes raided yesterday was that of a Gatwick Airport worker, raising fears al-Qaida could even have been plotting to blow up one of the terminal buildings.
The ammonium nitrate fertiliser compound, sealed in a plastic bag, was found in a self-storage warehouse in Hanwell, a few kilometres from London's Heathrow Airport.
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