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Another story on the guy:

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

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<snip> Detailed documents found in Boutrab’s flat could have been used to construct a bomb capable of downing an aircraft, Belfast Crown Court heard during the seven-week trial.

The instructions claimed the incendiary device would be planted in baby talcum powder canisters and easily smuggled onto an aeroplane for assembly in the toilet by a suicide bomber.

The instructions also advised the bomber to work alone and urged the volunteer to “blow the aircraft up with yourself and may God accept you”.

The FBI built the bomb Boutrab had designed by using the blue prints found in his Antrim flat. The device was then detonated in an old plane to show its deadly effectiveness. </snip>