Jet bomb plot 'orchestrated from abroad'

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from news.com.au:

A PLOT to blow up transatlantic airliners on their way to North America mid-flight was "orchestrated" from overseas, a British court has heard.

Prosecutors alleged that eight Islamic fundamentalists who aimed to cause death on an “almost unimaginable scale” were directed by masterminds overseas to take bombs disguised as soft drinks onto US and Canada-bound planes.

 

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And the trial has been aborted.

Here is an interesting link from the news story above.

British terroist cell 'plotted to blow up seven planes'

A BRITISH terrorist cell planned to kill thousands of people by detonating suicide bombs on transatlantic airliners, a London court was told yesterday.

The plot had been hatched by terrorist leaders in Pakistan but was to be carried out by young Islamist fanatics from East London and High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, north of London.

Woolwich Crown Court was told that the conspirators planned to smuggle liquid bombs constructed from soft drinks bottles and batteries on to seven flights that would leave Heathrow within hours of each other. All seven flights would have been in air at the same time when the bombs exploded.