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...With five members of the cell believed to be at large, the threat still looms and intelligence officials are still working to unravel the full extent of the plot. "I don't believe we know all the dimensions of this plot. Time has to pass to determine that a network was disrupted," said Allen. Worries another U.S. official: "Plan A has been stopped, but the concern: Is there a Plan...
...possibility that liquid explosives could be smuggled onto a plane is not a surprise to counterterrorism experts, and the tightening of U.S. airport security could only be temporary as security officials learn more about the extent of the plot and how to defend against such an attack. The current measures - stripping passengers of anything liquid in their carry-on luggage - were in reaction to these particular arrests, and not to the realization of a new, unforeseen threat. "We're primarily concerned about this particular plot," said Allen, implying that the new security measures are not permanent...
...Ramzi Yousef, who was convicted in 1996 for plotting to simultaneously bomb up to a dozen U.S. commercial airliners flying in the Far East, had manufactured TATP detonators. Arrested Dec. 14, 1999, for planning to attack Los Angeles International Airport in the millennium bombing plot, Ahmed Ressam had HMTD and RDX (cyclotrimethylene trinitrame) in a vial in the trunk of his car. He also had over 100 pounds of urea sulfate white powder and eight ounces of nitroglycerine mixture...
...into trash cans had just subsided when passengers from United flight 923 began trickling into the airport. Their flight was the first to arrive at Dulles from London's Heathrow Airport since super-strict new regulations had gone into effect in Britain in the wake of the thwarted terror plot. Approximately 200 people were aboard the plane, many of them Americans returning from vacation...
With 24 people in custody in Britain and five more at large, the British police have been careful to point out that the latest foiled terrorist plot wasn't the work of any one community, but a small group of criminals. According to reports, some of the suspects rounded up last night have connections to Pakistan - one senior Pakistan official told TIME that nine men have been arrested in Pakistan over the past few days in connection to the plot. And French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said in a press conference today that the "team of terrorists appears...