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RAF foils airline terror plot targeting four British cities as pop song code is cracked
Sunday Express ^ | January 24, 2015 | Marco Giannangeli

Posted on 01/23/2016 9:06:08 PM PST by rickmichaels

A terrorist plot to attack Britain was foiled after the RAF heard commercial pilots discussing targets on their radios.

The jihadist attacks were being planned in the week after the Paris massacre, but the two foreign pilots, one of whom was flying for an airline on an intelligence service watchlist, were intercepted talking about the plot.

Although they used coded messages from the cockpits of their passenger jets, the Arabic transcripts were passed to GCHQ where spies established they were talking about attacks on London, Bath, Brighton and Ipswich.

The uncovering of the plan raised the terror alert in the UK and was one factor which led to Operation Templer, involving 10,000 soldiers being deployed to support police on Britain's streets.

The pilots, who were unknown to the authorities but believed to be sympathetic to Islamic State, were using the emergency "Mayday" channel in the belief they were not being monitored.

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1 posted on 01/23/2016 9:06:08 PM PST by rickmichaels
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using the emergency "Mayday" channel in the belief they were not being monitored

??? I thought that channel was always monitored. If not, what's the use?

2 posted on 01/23/2016 9:11:45 PM PST by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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To: libertylover

Thank Gd for the stupidity of our enemies.

L


3 posted on 01/23/2016 9:13:11 PM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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Stupid people do the to clean their bottoms with their hands - don’t ever touch a muslima -


4 posted on 01/23/2016 9:15:48 PM PST by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: rickmichaels

Wow, they’re getting sloppier by the day. Instead of Dumb and Dumber, they’re growing Stupider and Stupider! Must be taking democrat pills... ;)


5 posted on 01/23/2016 9:16:45 PM PST by W. (Dammit, I made a great tagline and forgot to write it down!)
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To: rickmichaels

The king called up his jet fighters
He said you better earn your pay
Drop your bombs between the minarets
Down the Casbah way

As soon as the Shareef was
Chauffeured outta there
The jet pilots tuned to
The cockpit radio blare

As soon as the Shareef was
Outta their hair
The jet pilots wailed

The Shareef don’t like it
Rock the Casbah
Rock the Casbah
The Shareef don’t like it
Rock the Casbah
Rock the Casbah


6 posted on 01/23/2016 9:18:50 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: rickmichaels

“My Dog Has Fleas”


7 posted on 01/23/2016 9:21:08 PM PST by Organic Panic
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To: Lurker

Correction: Thank God for the vigilance of our defenders. Never gloat.


8 posted on 01/23/2016 9:29:30 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: rickmichaels

Why in Sam Hell do we insist on telling everyone on this earth the methods we use to catch terrorists? Is it so they won’t make the same mistakes next time?


9 posted on 01/23/2016 9:36:26 PM PST by B4Ranch
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Agree. They won’t make that mistake again.


10 posted on 01/23/2016 9:37:20 PM PST by SpaceBar
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“Let’s use the emergency freq, no one listens to that one!”

Who taught these goat f__kers to fly?

I’m sorry, but ANY Muslim pilot should be on every watch list available, and under close surveillance.


11 posted on 01/23/2016 9:44:00 PM PST by datura (Proud Infidel)
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but the two foreign pilots, one of whom was flying for an airline

A bit frightening to think about. I guess this is bound to happen when the government makes it illegal to do background checks while hiring.

I notice they didn't mention the airline.

12 posted on 01/23/2016 9:59:18 PM PST by Cowboy Bob (With Trump & Cruz, America can't lose!)
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To: libertylover

If you keep asking schmart questions like that
the gooberment is going to put lead in your drinking water.


13 posted on 01/23/2016 10:18:36 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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“...the two foreign pilots, one of whom was flying on an airline on an intelligence service watchlist...”

Huh? The airline was on a watchlist?


14 posted on 01/24/2016 12:03:43 AM PST by mumblypeg (I've seen the future; brother it is murder. -L. Cohen)
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Oh, now I get it. (After actually reading the story.)
Heh heh.


15 posted on 01/24/2016 12:15:58 AM PST by mumblypeg (I've seen the future; brother it is murder. -L. Cohen)
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To: B4Ranch

In this case it just doesn’t ring true to my ear. Story sets my BS detector off, particularly about the Mayday channel and thinking it’s not being monitored.

It’s just not a reasonable story or perhaps it was just psyops from radical Islamic terrorists. Like Clock boy.


16 posted on 01/24/2016 1:09:56 AM PST by Fhios (FR inception date 2015. I must be a mole for whoever I'm currently supporting.)
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To: libertylover
Mayday Channel - otherwise known as Guard channel in US (VHF 121.5 and UHF 243.0). In the military the UHF guard channel is always monitored along with any other frequency you are talking on so that if someone is in distress (and transmitting on the emergency channel) then any military aircraft in range can hear them and contact the appropriate air traffic control (or rescue) facility. Many commercial aircraft also monitor the VHF emergency channel (mayday/guard channel) along with air traffic control facilities. So it is rather stupid to think that you can carry on a conversation over guard channel and not expect many ears to be listening. And if you are transmitting over guard (mayday) and are not talking about an emergency of some sort, then either people are going to tell you to shut up because you are interrupting normal air traffic control conversations, or they are going to be naturally suspicious.
17 posted on 01/24/2016 1:55:57 AM PST by pajama pundit (Please Don't Hate Me For Being A Christian)
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To: libertylover

Did they catch them? Are they prosecuting them? Are they executing them?

Or is this another catch and release operation?


18 posted on 01/24/2016 3:00:18 AM PST by Chickensoup (ISIS is like Marxism, not a country, but a dangerous sociopolitical philosophy)
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To: Fhios

Agree it is not a well written story. But there have been several instances in the last decade of Muslim commerical airline pilots going off the deep end.


19 posted on 01/24/2016 4:44:45 AM PST by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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Several months ago there was a poster on FreeRepublic whose husband was a pilot for a commercial airline here in America. He had a muslim, middle eastern first officer who seemed to be anti American, if I’m remembering correctly, and badmouthed America to the extent that the captain refused to leave the cockpit with him in control. They are here and they are just waiting for their chance, I firmly believe


20 posted on 01/24/2016 4:52:02 AM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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