http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/03/AR2008040301948.html
In this undated combination handout photo issued, Thursday, April 3, 2008 by the Metropolitan Police, the eight men on trial accused of planning to bomb airliners bound for the United States and Canada are seen,
Thursday, April 3, 2008; 9:14 PM
LONDON -- Eight British men planned to set off homemade bombs aboard at least seven airliners flying over the Atlantic to the United States and Canada, hoping to kill hundreds in a mammoth terror attack, a prosecutor said Thursday as their trial opened.
Prosecutor Peter Wright said the men had plotted coordinated strikes on United Airlines, American Airlines and Air Canada flights at the height of the summer vacation season in 2006.
Details of seven specific flights from London's Heathrow airport to Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Washington, Toronto and Montreal were stored on a computer memory stick, he said in the opening statements of a trial expected to last around six months.
Major disruptions were caused at British airports as hundreds of flights were ordered grounded when police arrested the suspects in August 2006 in the alleged plot to use explosive liquids to blow up planes.
"The attack they contemplated was not long off" when police swept in, Wright said......
He said the plot was intended to be a "violent and deadly statement of intent" and designed to "inflict heavy casualties on an unwitting civilian population all in the name of Islam."
British Muslims 'planned to kill thousands by bombing SEVEN transatlantic airliners in one go'
This is why you can't carry your latte onto the plane anymore.
"It would have caused a civilian death toll on an 'almost unprecedented scale' and a 'global impact'." And they were ready to do it in the name of Islam -- yet peaceful Muslims have made no large-scale attempt to disabuse such Muslims of this theology that the peaceful ones say they reject, and all too many law enforcement and government continue to ignore or downplay the Islamic aspect of their motivation, central as it is, as irrelevant.
