Al-Qaeda hijack plan foiled in London
June 22 2006 at 01:24AM
Washington - Al-Qaeda planned to hijack a plane from London's Heathrow
Airport in 2003 and smash it into a London skyscraper, a United States
television network reported on Wednesday, quoting an American government
report.
The London attack was one of three al-Qaeda hijack plots foiled, with
Australia, the United States and Italy also targets of Osama bin Laden's
group, according to the Department of Homeland Security report cited by ABC
television's website.
The hijackers in the London attack had planned to use cameras to hide bombs
and take on stun guns disguised as flash attachments, highlighting
al-Qaeda's search for innovative new ways to strike.
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The report said al-Qaeda had planned to hijack planes taking off from
Heathrow Airport and smash them into the airport and a skyscraper in the
Canary Wharf financial district of the British capital.
It did not say how the plot was foiled.
Al-Qaeda had also planned in May 2003 to fly "an explosive-laden general
aviation aircraft into the US consulate in Karachi, Pakistan", said the
report.
ABC did not give details of the planned attacks in Australia, Italy or the
United States, but it said the US report had concluded there were nine
similar plots since the September 11, 2001 attacks, "demonstrating a
continued commitment to attack aviation-related targets".
The United States has imposed stringent airport security since the September
11 strikes, when al-Qaeda flew hijacked jets into targets in New York and
Washington, killing almost 3 000 people.
The report, a strategic assessment on US aviation, said that despite the
security improvements, the "DHS continues to receive information on
terrorist threats to the US aviation industry and to the Western aviation
industry worldwide".
ABC quoted Homeland Security officials as saying the attacks were an example
of al-Qaeda adapting "to increased aviation security by shifting planned
suicide hijackings from domestic carriers to international flights, to take
advantage of perceived less-effective security screening at some foreign
airports".
Al-Qaeda's "ingenuity was evident" in its attempts to convert camera
equipment and other non-threatening items into weapons, the officials were
quoted as saying.
The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately comment on the
report. - Sapa-AFP
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