LONDON: Police believe they foiled a potential Al Qaeda gas attack on British parliament, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
The Sunday Times newspaper said the plot - to unleash sarin, a deadly nerve gas, on Britains House of Commons - was uncovered through coded e-mails on computers seized from terror suspects in Britain and Pakistan. The newspaper said the e-mails were decoded with the help of an Al Qaeda operative working with police. The discovery of the plot led to the decision to increase security around parliament this summer, the newspaper said. A spokeswoman for the Metropolitan Police said on Sunday that the force is not prepared to comment on the report. The paper claimed that an operation to deter the attack was referred to in an internal police document they had obtained. Citing an unidentified senior police officer, The Sunday Times said the plan involved a gas or chemical dirty bomb attack targeting the House of Commons and Londons subway system. Extensive research and video-recorded reconnaissance had been carried out by the Al Qaeda cell plotting the foiled attack, the newspaper said. Police remained concerned about the possibility that suicide bombers could use one of Londons famous black taxicabs to attack the parliament building, and were calling for a further increase in security, The Sunday Times said. One month on, and even with the suspected perpetrators in custody awaiting trial, mystery shrouds the failed attempt one month ago on Sunday to repeat the brutal July 7 bombings in London. Islamist extremists were reputedly behind both the July 7 and July 21 attacks on three Underground subway lines and a double-decker bus. agencies http://us.f533.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?YY=29241 See also: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/khilafism/message/1272 Major Terror Attack at IGI Airport Averted with minutes to spare See also: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/khilafism/message/955 NYC Subway Bomb Plot Foiled See also: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/khilafism/message/895 Terrorist plan to flood London subways foiled See also: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/khilafism/message/718 Islamic concept of Al-Taqiyah to infiltrate and destroy kafir countries See also: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/khilafism/message/382 Jihad in France -- again -- : Bomb Alert Evacuates Paris Train Stations See also: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/khilafism/message/289 Al-Qaeda Targets London's Heathrow Airport --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hjat8si/M=362329.6886306.7839369.3040540/D=groups/S=1705323667:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1124850603/A=2894321/R=0/SIG=11dvsfulr/*http://youthnoise.com/page.php?page_id=1992 ">Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back!</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
