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  • Knock Airport was on Al Qaeda hit-list (Irish airport, near a Marian shrine)

    12/10/2005 10:27:31 AM PST · by Irish_Thatcherite · 64 replies · 1,273+ views
    Western People ^ | Wednesday, December 07, 2005 | Marian Harrison
    Gardaí in Mayo are liasing with police in Northern Ireland after it emerged that Knock Airport had been identified as a potential target for an Al Qaeda suicide bomber. Claims that the West’s airport was a target for Osama bin Laden disciple, Abbas Boutrab, who spent his time fixated on fine-tuning how to blow up passenger jets, is of “considerable concern” to Gardaí, the Western People has learned. Reports suggest that Algerian-born Boutrab, who is believed to have used up to ten false identities before he was apprehended by police in the North, carried out several dummy runs at Knock...