Yep, but I got sidetracked and haven't read it yet.
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"Al-Qaeda's Heathrow jet plot revealed"
UK Times ^ | Oct. 9, 2005 | David Leppard
Posted on 10/08/2005 9:05:22 PM PDT by FairOpinion
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "AL-QAEDA terrorists planned to hijack a passenger jet from eastern Europe and fly it into a packed terminal at Heathrow airport, killing hundreds of people, security sources have revealed. The plot, which was taken so seriously that ministers considered shutting down the airport, helps to resolve the long-standing mystery of why Tony Blair ordered armoured vehicles and hundreds of troops to be sent to Heathrow in 2003.
It has now emerged that MI5 received detailed intelligence in February 2003 about a two-pronged plan to target Britain because of its decision to send troops in support of America’s invasion of Iraq.
The second element of the operation, inspired by Osama Bin Laden, involved a mortar attack on a departing passenger plane. It was organised by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the Al-Qaeda operations chief and mastermind of the September 11 attacks, the sources said."
ARTICLE SNIPPET #2: "Last year The Sunday Times obtained transcripts of Mohammed’s interrogation in the months after his capture in Pakistan in 2003. They show that the original plan for September 11 envisaged the hijacking of 10 planes, which were to be crashed into targets on the east and west coasts of America.
In the interrogation, Mohammed also referred to an unspecified plot against Heathrow designed to punish Blair, whom he said Bin Laden called his “principal enemy”."
He told his interrogators that Al-Qaeda operatives had been given money and told to begin surveillance of Heathrow, assessing its weak points and finding locations from which planes could be shot down."
Thanks to MamaDearest for pointing to this article:
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http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7000438643
"Terror Suspects Arrested in Britain"
October 9, 2005 12:00 a.m. EST
Denise Royal - All Headline News Staff Writer
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "London, England (AHN) – British authorities have arrested 10 Islamic terror suspects thought to be plotting multiple car bombings against targets in Britain in a “follow-up” to the July 7 attacks on London. The 10 men were detained in early morning raids in London, Derby and Wolverhampton.
They are suspected of being part of a terrorist cell led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the notorious chief of Al-Qaeda in Iraq.
Law enforcement sources say it’s too early to say which targets the suspects may have been planning to attack or when they planned to carry out the attacks. Police sources say the operation was not directly connected to the investigation into the July 7 attacks in which 56 people, including the four suicide bombers, died.
The plot is thought to have involved the use of conventional explosives, probably to be loaded into cars and driven into crowded city centers."