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| Foiled UK plots â from sarin gas to hijackings |
| 2005-07-17 |
| Security officials will not say on how many previous occasions Islamic terrorists have attempted attacks in Britain, but last week Lord Stevens, the former Metropolitan police commissioner, said there had been eight foiled plots in London in three years. Among plots and attempts known are: A suspected plot last year to attack the London Underground with sarin gas. There was a suggestion that this attack might also have included a separate âdirty bombâ using chemical and radiological waste mixed with conventional explosives. In an earlier case, terrorists were said to be plotting a car bomb attack against nightclubs in Soho or in a car park beneath a prestigious London hotel. The so-called ricin plot in which suspects were alleged to have been preparing to place the deadly poison in jars of beauty cream or contaminating tooth brushes and other products. Kamel Bourgass, a failed Algerian asylum seeker, was jailed for 15 years for his part in that plot earlier this year. He was also jailed for life for killing a policeman during his arrest at a flat in Manchester. Two years ago MI5 warned the cabinet that there might be an attack at Heathrow airport, possibly involving surface-to-air missiles fired at a departing or arriving passenger aircraft. In 2000 a man was convicted for plotting an explosion against an unspecified target. Last year a number of men were arrested after police learnt of an apparent plot to bomb Old Trafford, the Manchester United stadium. They were released without charge. Unconfirmed reports have suggested Al-Qaeda cells had considered flying hijacked aircraft into skyscrapers in Canary Wharf in East London. One terror suspect was also thought to have been planning to hijack a plane and fly it into Londonâs American embassy. In autumn 2002, David Blunkett, then the home secretary, was forced to deny a story that terrorists planned to launch a chemical weapons attack on the Underground. |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #2 It's important to note that the Moslem terrorist plots against the UK started before 9/11, before the liberation of Afghanistan, and before the liberation of Iraq. Our other war is to foil the leftist plots to blame the West for Moslem terrorism. It takes a while, but we need to wear them down by pointing out the facts. My relatives and friends have gone through a remarkable transformation in the last 4 years, from thinking that surely I was exaggerating to spontaneously telling their own friends and relatives about taqiya, jihad, sharia, dar-al-harb, and blaming Moslems for what Moslems do. Only one friend told me she didn't want to hear about the positives of liberating Iraq, about one year ago --so she's no longer a friend, nor an acquaintance. |
| Posted by: Kalle (kafir forever) 2005-07-17 13:44 |
| #1 Sounds like plots by Blair to keep himself in office so he can keep Bush in office and thereby keep Karl Rove in office. Diabolical! |
| Posted by: Bobby 2005-07-17 10:12 |