OH SHIT!!!!
-- A plot to blow up aircraft flying from the UK was "intended to be mass murder on an unimaginable scale," a police spokesman says
-- The U.S. has raised its threat warning to the highest level for commercial flights from Britain to the United States in response to a terror plot disrupted in London. According to The Associated Press, the terrorists had targeted United, American and Continental airlines, two U.S. counterterrorism officials said.
-- A senior U.S. administration official tells CNN that intelligence on the foiled airline terror plot indicates "very strong links to al Qaeda."
-- Some of the flights involved in the plot to blow up trans-Atlantic planes in mid-air would have been going from the United Kingdom to New York, Washington, D.C., and California, a U.S. government official said.
As many as 10 flights were targeted, and the plot may have involved up to 50 people, U.S. officials told CNN
U.S. and British officials said some suspects could still be on the loose and their investigations were continuing.
Indications are that all of the 21 arrested were British citizens and some were of Pakistani ethnicity, a senior U.S. intelligence official said.
Passengers "were not yet sitting on an airplane," but were very close to traveling, a senior U.S. counterterrorism official told The Associated Press.
Plotters were to carry a "British version of Gatorade," detonate it with iPod or cell phone, source says
-- The U.S. has raised its threat warning to the highest level for commercial flights from Britain to the United States in response to a terror plot disrupted in London. According to The Associated Press, the terrorists had targeted United, American and Continental airlines, two U.S. counterterrorism officials said.
-- A senior U.S. administration official tells CNN that intelligence on the foiled airline terror plot indicates "very strong links to al Qaeda."
-- Some of the flights involved in the plot to blow up trans-Atlantic planes in mid-air would have been going from the United Kingdom to New York, Washington, D.C., and California, a U.S. government official said.
As many as 10 flights were targeted, and the plot may have involved up to 50 people, U.S. officials told CNN
U.S. and British officials said some suspects could still be on the loose and their investigations were continuing.
Indications are that all of the 21 arrested were British citizens and some were of Pakistani ethnicity, a senior U.S. intelligence official said.
Passengers "were not yet sitting on an airplane," but were very close to traveling, a senior U.S. counterterrorism official told The Associated Press.
Plotters were to carry a "British version of Gatorade," detonate it with iPod or cell phone, source says