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UPDATE...

Cindy's Note: The investigation is still ongoing.

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UPDATE...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,207879,00.html

"UK Agent Infiltrated Suspected Terror Cell That Plotted to Blow Up 10 Jetliners"
Friday, August 11, 2006

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "LONDON — America may have been just days away from another Sept. 11, Department of Homeland Security officials said.

That dire assessment came hours after British police swooped in and arrested 24 people in London Thursday, busting up an alleged terrorist plot to blow 10 packed U.S.-bound jetliners out of the sky over the Atlantic.

The plot was foiled when an undercover British agent infiltrated the UK-based group, and passed information to authorities, FOX News has learned.

Early Friday, the names of 19 of the 24 suspects accused in the plotting were made public by British officials.

And it became clear information that played "a very important role" in the subsequent arrest of the 24 in London was provided to Pakistani officials by British nationals arrested in Pakistan in connection with the plot a week ago, according to a government official there. (Full story)

Five Pakistanis were arrested Friday on suspicion that they served as local "facilitators" for those two Britons, the official said.

The suspects in the plot allegedly planned to smuggle peroxide-based liquid ingredients disguised as sports drinks that could be mixed aboard the flight to produce an explosive compound possibly detonated by a device disguised as a digital camera or audio player, Department of Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff to FOX News' Bill O'Reilly."


878 posted on 08/11/2006 2:51:19 AM PDT by Cindy
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RECAP AND UPDATES:

FOX NEWS.com: London - "UK AGENT INFILTRATED SUSPECTED TERROR CELL THAT PLOTTED TO BLOW UP 10 JETLINERS" (August 11, 2006)

News.BBC.co.uk: "ASSETS OF 'PLANE PLOTTERS' FROZEN" (Last updated August 11, 2006)

News.BBC.co.uk: "'AIR PLOT' SUSPECTS: NAMES RELEASED" (Last updated August 11, 2006)

News.BBC.co.uk: "TWO BRITONS IN PAKISTAN ARRESTS" (Last updated August 11, 2006)

JIHAD WATCH.org (TimesOnline.co.uk): "BRITISH JIHADISTS 'HAD CONVERTED TO DEVOUT FORM OF ISLAM'" (August 11, 2006)

OSINT.INTERNET-HAGANAH.com (GUARDIAN): "'It was really strange'" (August 10, 2006)

JIHAD WATCH.org (CNN): "HEATHROW AIRPORT EMPLOYEE WITH ALL-AREA ACCESS PASS AMONG SUSPECTED JIHADISTS ARRESTED" (August 10, 2006)

SAAG.org - Paper no. 1907: "OPERATION BOJINKA-2006: THE TRAIL TO PAKISTAN - INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR: Paper no. 101" by B. Raman(August 11, 2006)

SAAG.org Paper no. 1906: "OPERATION BOJINKA--2006? - INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR: Paper no. 100" by B. Raman (August 10, 2006)

DEFENSElink.mil (AMERICA FORCES PRESS SERVICE): Washington - "BUSH: TERROR PLOT TO BOMB PLANES REMINDER U.S. AT WAR" by Steven Donald Smith (August 10, 2006)

DEFENSElink.mil (MERICAN FORCES PRESS SERVICE): Washington - "U.S. REMAINS ON GUARD IN RESPONSE TO TERROR THREAT" by Jim Garamone (August 10, 2006)

CNS NEWS.com: "U.S.-BOUND FLIGHTS TARGETED IN FOILED BOMB PLOT" by Patrick Goodenough (August 10, 2006)

TRAVEL.STATE.GOV - U.S. Department of State: "Public Announcement" (August 10, 2006)

TSA.gov: "Statement By Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff Announcing A Change To The Nation's Threat Level For The Aviation Sector" (August 10, 2006)

Google - News - Search: Various Key Words"

879 posted on 08/11/2006 3:05:13 AM PDT by Cindy
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