Posted on 01/23/2016 9:06:08 PM PST by rickmichaels
A terrorist plot to attack Britain was foiled after the RAF heard commercial pilots discussing targets on their radios.
The jihadist attacks were being planned in the week after the Paris massacre, but the two foreign pilots, one of whom was flying for an airline on an intelligence service watchlist, were intercepted talking about the plot.
Although they used coded messages from the cockpits of their passenger jets, the Arabic transcripts were passed to GCHQ where spies established they were talking about attacks on London, Bath, Brighton and Ipswich.
The uncovering of the plan raised the terror alert in the UK and was one factor which led to Operation Templer, involving 10,000 soldiers being deployed to support police on Britain's streets.
The pilots, who were unknown to the authorities but believed to be sympathetic to Islamic State, were using the emergency "Mayday" channel in the belief they were not being monitored.
(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...
??? I thought that channel was always monitored. If not, what's the use?
Thank Gd for the stupidity of our enemies.
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Stupid people do the to clean their bottoms with their hands - don’t ever touch a muslima -
Wow, they’re getting sloppier by the day. Instead of Dumb and Dumber, they’re growing Stupider and Stupider! Must be taking democrat pills... ;)
The king called up his jet fighters
He said you better earn your pay
Drop your bombs between the minarets
Down the Casbah way
As soon as the Shareef was
Chauffeured outta there
The jet pilots tuned to
The cockpit radio blare
As soon as the Shareef was
Outta their hair
The jet pilots wailed
The Shareef don’t like it
Rock the Casbah
Rock the Casbah
The Shareef don’t like it
Rock the Casbah
Rock the Casbah
“My Dog Has Fleas”
Correction: Thank God for the vigilance of our defenders. Never gloat.
Why in Sam Hell do we insist on telling everyone on this earth the methods we use to catch terrorists? Is it so they won’t make the same mistakes next time?
Agree. They won’t make that mistake again.
“Let’s use the emergency freq, no one listens to that one!”
Who taught these goat f__kers to fly?
I’m sorry, but ANY Muslim pilot should be on every watch list available, and under close surveillance.
A bit frightening to think about. I guess this is bound to happen when the government makes it illegal to do background checks while hiring.
I notice they didn't mention the airline.
If you keep asking schmart questions like that
the gooberment is going to put lead in your drinking water.
“...the two foreign pilots, one of whom was flying on an airline on an intelligence service watchlist...”
Huh? The airline was on a watchlist?
Oh, now I get it. (After actually reading the story.)
Heh heh.
In this case it just doesn’t ring true to my ear. Story sets my BS detector off, particularly about the Mayday channel and thinking it’s not being monitored.
It’s just not a reasonable story or perhaps it was just psyops from radical Islamic terrorists. Like Clock boy.
Did they catch them? Are they prosecuting them? Are they executing them?
Or is this another catch and release operation?
Agree it is not a well written story. But there have been several instances in the last decade of Muslim commerical airline pilots going off the deep end.
Several months ago there was a poster on FreeRepublic whose husband was a pilot for a commercial airline here in America. He had a muslim, middle eastern first officer who seemed to be anti American, if I’m remembering correctly, and badmouthed America to the extent that the captain refused to leave the cockpit with him in control. They are here and they are just waiting for their chance, I firmly believe
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