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As is being exhaustively covered this morning, UK and American authorities busted a plot to bomb 10 US-bound airliners en route from Britain, over the Atlantic.
Is there a North Korea connection?
Authorities have not confirmed that the plotters are al Qaeda members, but have strongly hinted they are. The plotters, authorities said, planned to bring binary liquid explosives aboard the planes in handbags. “Binary” means that the explosive would be formed by mixing two apparently-innocuous liquids after takeoff.
One airliner, a Boeing 707, was destroyed in a similar manner:
Korean Air Flight 858 was a flight that flew from Abu Dhabi International Airport in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates to Gimpo Airport near Seoul, South Korea via Bangkok International Airport in Bangkok. On November 29, 1987, it mysteriously disappeared.
According to the South Korean authorities, the Boeing 707 took off from Abu Dhabi and was flying to Bangkok on the way to Seoul. Two passengers who departed from the plane at Abu Dhabi left a radio containing 350 grams of C-4 and liquor bottle containing cca 0.7 l of PLX explosives in an overhead rack on the airplane. The bomb exploded while the plane was over the Andaman Sea near Thailand. Radar contact was lost at the time of the explosion.
All 11 crew members and 104 passengers on Korean Air 858 were killed, making it the deadliest terrorist attack against South Korea.
Two North Korean agents were arrested by South Korean officials shortly after the bombing. One killed himself with a suicide pill but the other, Kim Hyon Hui, was captured before she herself could commit suicide. She told investigators that the bombing was ordered by Kim Il Sung’s son, Kim Jong-il.
It has long been established that North Korea is in terrorist bed with Iran. Iran is the world’s number one sponsor of terrorism and has the technical capability to produce sophisticated exlosives. Although al Qaeda in Iraq, under its fortunately-martyred, former leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, considers Shiite Muslims its enemy, there is no such enmity between Iranian mullahs and the upper levels of al Qaeda’s leadership. Both Iran and Osama bin Laden characterize the United States as the “Great Satan,” with the UK not far behind.
Whether the plot actually has an Iranian or North Korean connection we may never know, but remember that the man who ordered the destruction of KAL 858 now runs North Korea.
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August 10th, 2006 at 8:29 am
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August 10th, 2006 at 8:34 am
Airline bomb plot’s toll could have exceeded 9/11
The total news focus this morning is on the arrest of 21 suspected al-Qaeda-related terrorists for a plot to blow up 10 airliners over the Atlantic Ocean, en route to the US from Britain. A…
August 10th, 2006 at 10:48 am
As I recall, the North Korean agents who planted the bomb on the KAL jet were an elderly man and a young woman, posing as father and daughter. The man killed himself with a cyanide cigarette, not a pill. The young woman, Kim Hyun Hee, was gagged so that she could not kill herself.
She had been taken from her parents as a young teenager to be trained as a covert agent. She had grown up on North Korean propaganda, believing that South Korea was a land of starving paupers. Instead of the typically brutal interrogation done by the South Koreans when they catch a spy, they did a soft sell instead. They drove her around Seoul showing her how rich it was. She refused to accept it, so they told her to tell them where to drive. She directed them out into a residential section. They told her to pick any house. She picked one. They knocked on the door, told the inhabitants they were coming in, and took her in the house. When she saw the modern appliances and the refrigerator full of food (luxuries reserved for the elite in North Korea) she broke down sobbing, realizing everything she had been told was a lie.
She wrote a book, “The Tears Of My Soul,” and has spent her time giving lectures about her life and North Korea. She remains at risk of assassination by North Korea.
http://www.kimsoft.com/korea/hyunhee.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Hyun_Hee
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0688128335/sr=8-1/qid=1155223581/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-0909257-9523067?ie=UTF8
August 10th, 2006 at 10:50 am
Sky Terror in UK: US Security Alert to RED
News Items (Blogs & Opinion below) ident Bush will make a statement on the airline terror plot at about 11:50 a.m. EDT -08:50 am PDT- (CNN homepage alert) 08:14 PDT Qatar Airways airplane from Doha to Amman hijack plot foiled….
August 10th, 2006 at 12:01 pm
The example of KAL 858 isn’t a binary agent, though.
It looks like one solid explosive (the C4) setting off another liquid explosive (the PLX). Both are high explosives on their own, however, and were not mixed, so it’s not a binary agent.
I’d be interested to know what sort of binary liquid high explosives there are… I’ve never heard of one before.
August 10th, 2006 at 1:35 pm
[…] to be the dominant news story of the day. UPDATE: Donald Sensing asks a serious question: Could there be a North Korean connection to this plot? […]
August 10th, 2006 at 2:20 pm
I can’t believe I’ve never heard of Kim Hyun Hee before. That is just an incredible story, this should be a movie. Too bad there’s zero chance Hollywood would ever do it justice.
August 10th, 2006 at 2:31 pm
Why is North Korea’s terrorist-in-chief in hiding?
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August 10th, 2006 at 3:03 pm
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August 12th, 2006 at 12:25 pm
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August 16th, 2006 at 9:01 am
Information, Insularity, and Induced Insanity
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