TRAIL OF TERROR

BLOODY CHRISTMAS: 'SPECTACULAR ATTACK' ALERT

'They've been waiting for the big one'

Another coordinated terror attack using jetliners, reminiscent of 9/11, could be in the works, according to an airport-security source cited by a London paper.

“We’ve been told that five planes are being targeted in a high-profile hit before Christmas,” the source said, according to the Express newspaper of London.

“They’ve been waiting for the big one.”

Many of the security precautions facing airline passengers worldwide were implemented after four jetliners were hijacked on Sept. 11, 2001, killing nearly 3,000 people in the U.S.

The new threat was reported in an Express story about whether those who leave Britain to fight with jihadists abroad should be allowed to return.

Moderator Ian Collins talked about the issue with Douglas Murray of the Henry Jackson Society and radical British Muslims cleric Anjem Choudary.

Murray said the home-grown jihadists should be dealt with in the nation’s justice system. Choudary insisted they haven’t committed any crimes, and charging them would be “the cause of further radicalization in this country … pushing people into the arms of the Islamic State.”

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The Express report said concern has risen so high over threats against U.K. assets that officials have considered an outright ban on all hand luggage.

The security sources were not identified by the newspaper.

The report said mobile phones and electronics on flights still could be banned as British officials conclude a terror strike is “almost inevitable.”

The unidentified airport security official said: “We have many scares but this one nearly got hand baggage pulled from all airlines. The threat is still alive and real.”

The Express said authorities have been aware of the plot for several weeks. It is believed to involve Islamic jihadists smuggling bombs on to planes bound for major European destinations before Christmas.

There’s no quick solution, the report said.

“There is paralysis because of the difficulty of banning hand luggage which is one of the strongest weapons we have against the new threats,” the report said, “All electronics may be banned from hand luggage and placed in the hold, that has been considered; and there has been behavior analysis training at airports but while it’s effective, it’s difficult to roll out quickly and is not a sufficient safety net.”

The report said the bull’s-eye apparently is on Europe, because the U.S. has improved its security over the summer while the U.K. has not.

All types of perpetrators are being considered, the source said, from insiders – Westerners who have converted and now are pursuing a terror agenda – to sleeper cells of al-Qaida adherents secretly embedded in Western societies.

The report said evidence indicates the threat is growing.

For example, it said David Drugeon, 24, a trusted al-Qaida bombmaker, recently was killed in Syria.

He was part of the Khorasan group, an offshoot of al-Qaida, and was said to be targeting U.S. and U.K. airlines with non-metallic explosive devices, which could be concealed in mobile phones, computers and printer cartridges.

Sally Leivesley, a terrorism expert, told the Express there appear to have been “dry runs” already in which terrorists have tested security procedures.

The onetime British Home Office risk adviser also warned “terrorists are now more likely to be ‘white, blond and blue eyed’ who are radicalized in as little as five weeks.”

Operation Bojinka

The idea of using jetliners not only recalls the Sept. 11 attack but the Bojinka plot in 1995 to blow up a dozen American airliners over the Pacific.

Operation Bojinka allegedly was organized by Ramzi Yousef, Abdul Hakim Murad and Wali Khan Amin Shah Shah. It was in January of 1995 when Yousef’s Manila apartment caught fire, weeks before the plan was to be implemented.

The Bojinka trial ran from May 29 to Sept. 5, 1996, the period Clinton adviser Dick Morris has aptly called “the terror summer of 1996.”

A fellow prisoner seeking a reduced sentence, told authorities Yousef disclosed the plot to him.

On July 2, a week after the truck bombing of Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia killed 19 American Air Force personnel, Yousef assigned responsibility to al-Qaida’s Osama bin Laden, with whom he was then collaborating, the source said.

The source said Yousef was originally sent on the mission to check out security measures. As July 17 approached, Yousef was warning friends not to fly on TWA or American Airlines on the morning of July 18, the source said.

WND columnist Jack Cashill has written extensively about the case. He reported after the TWA Flight 800 disaster, July 17, 1996, “Yousef called 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed that night, saying, ‘What had to be done has been done, TWA 800′ (last two words unintelligible).”

Cashill said he had two separate sources within the NSA confirm that Yousef made the call in his native Baluchi language.

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