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| UK bomb plot accused had flight timetables |
| 2008-04-09 |
| One of eight British men accused of planning to bomb airliners had a notebook listing liquids and a computer memory stick with timetables for flights to the United States and Canada, the men's trial was told on Tuesday. Abdullah Ahmad Ali told police when arrested in Walthamstow, north London in August 2006 that diagrams found in his notebook were "just garbage" and he could not remember why it contained lists referring to batteries and Lucozade and orange drinks. Patrick Holt, a Scotland Yard counter-terrorism officer who questioned him at the time, told the trial at Woolwich Crown Court he had found the notebook in Ali's jacket pocket and that it contained diagrams and "lists of items which I thought could be related to terrorist activity". He described Ali's demeanor as "very calm, very collected". The prosecution's case is that the defendants planned to simultaneously blow up passenger aircraft in mid-air between London's Heathrow airport and the United States and Canada. It says they planned to bring down the planes by smuggling liquids, including hydrogen peroxide, on board in soft drink bottles and combining them into an explosive mixture. The jury was shown entries in Ali's notebook referring to batteries, drink bottles, Lucozade energy drink, orange and red Oasis drink, and blue and red mouthwash. Instructions in the notebook included "calculate exact drops of Tang (a soft drink) and color" and "check time to fill each bottle" and "check time taken to dilute in HP" -- a possible reference to hydrogen peroxide. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 It's not that possession of a timetable is illegal, I'm sure, but that under the circumstances it is rather suggestive. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-04-09 17:12 |
| #2 not to sound like i am supporting the bad guyz, but since when is possession of timetables illegal? next thing you know we will have to surredner our nipple rings in ord... oh,you say that's already happened? Never mind. |
| Posted by: USN,Ret. 2008-04-09 13:54 |
| #1 I'm sending these mooks my bill for the lipgloss I had to surrender to French security at Charles De Gaulle in September '06. BTW, I accurately predicted that the US flight restrictions on carrying liquids onto a plane would be relaxed in time for the press junkets surrounding the midterm 'lections in November '06. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2008-04-09 00:25 |