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Wednesday, April 21, 2004


Major terrorist attack foiled in England
Potentially thousands could have been killed, say Brit police

The Sun reported yesterday,

A SUICIDE bomb plot to kill thousands of soccer fans at Saturday’s Manchester United-Liverpool match was dramatically foiled yesterday.

Armed cops seized ten terror suspects in dawn raids.

Intelligence chiefs believe al-Qaeda fanatics planned to blow themselves up amid 67,000 unsuspecting supporters. A source said: “The target was Old Trafford.”

The Islamic fanatics planned to sit all around the ground to cause maximum carnage.

They had already bought the tickets for various positions in the stadium, cops revealed last night.

But armed cops foiled the horrific plot - which could have killed thousands watching Manchester United’s home game against Liverpool on Saturday - in a series of dawn raids yesterday. ...

A police source said: “The plot involved several individual bombers in separate parts of the stadium.

“If successful, any such attack would have caused absolute carnage. Thousands of people could have been killed.”

The planned attack would have had an instant global impact as the game is being televised worldwide.
There was no information released as to the amount of explosives the terrorists would have used. HT: Kim du Toit

Update: More info here; police are officially mum on the details above.

by Donald Sensing, 4/21/2004 10:10:28 PM. Permalink |  





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