"FBI warns of '9/11-style' attack on UK"

Monday, August 25, 2003

FBI warns of '9/11-style' attack on UK  
Gulf Daily News


LONDON - The FBI has uncovered intelligence that the Al Qaeda terrorist
network is plotting to hijack an aircraft in Britain over the next two
months and fly it into an important building.

British Airways and other leading airlines have been put on alert after the
warning was passed to Britain's security services, according to the report
in The Sunday Telegraph yesterday.

The report said that the most likely targets for the hijackers were aircraft
taking off from London's Heathrow and Gatwick airports.

The FBI and the US department for homeland security circulated a warning to
British and US airlines on July 30, saying that terrorists working in teams
of five were likely to try to hijack aircraft using "common items carried by
travellers", such as cameras, to disguise weapons, the newspaper said.

"Recent reporting on Al Qaeda from intelligence sources indicated that
terrorists might try to to modify electronic items for use as weapons in
order to circumvent improved security screening," the warning said,
according to paper.

An FBI spokesman, quoted by the newspaper, said that information about
possible attacks had also identified Italy, Australia and the US as ground
targets.


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