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Britain
US airbase bomb plotter on the run in UK
2007-09-30
A KEY suspect in the alleged plot to mount an attack in Germany on the scale of 9/11 is on the run in Britain, German security officials disclosed yesterday.
"Trainers, don't fail me now!"
Scotland Yard counterterrorism detectives are hunting the man, who escaped from Germany after a plot to explode bombs at Frankfurt airport and a US airbase. The collective power of the bombs would have exceeded those in Madrid and London in 2004 and 2005.

The plot was foiled on September 4 when three men were arrested at a rented holiday apartment near the central German town of Kassel. Police recovered chemicals and bomb-making equipment which investigators believe would have led to the biggest loss of life since the 9/11 attacks in America six years ago.

About 10 other members of the gang were said by German prosecutors to have escaped and one is now in Britain. The arrested three - two of whom were German nationals who had converted to Islam - were alleged by prosecutors to be members of an Al-Qaeda splinter group called the Islamic Jihad Union.
Posted by:mrp

#4  Good possibility transit and entry via Ireland.
Posted by: Pappy   2007-09-30 20:43  

#3  They probly all entered the UK in burkas.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2007-09-30 17:52  

#2  So who hasn't the UK used their vaunted CCTV system to catch this clown?
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2007-09-30 17:41  

#1  Hard to believe that all 10 could have got into the UK. UK, even though they are signatory to Schwengen Treaty, is very diligent when checking EU passport lines at Waterloo, St. Pancras, the ferry ports and all airports. Sure, no need for stamps, but the immigration people do random scanning and have police standing nearby to stop for further questioning.
Posted by: Jack is Back!   2007-09-30 08:56  

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