Airplane bombing plot was first hatched in 1994

[rms () bsf-llc com]

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the Al Qaeada mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks,
originally hatched in the 1994 the airplane bombing plot which was broken
up today in the UK.  Although he has been in U.S. custody for 3+ years, it
looks like he is still having an affect.

Richard

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Bojinka

Airline bombing plot

The next plan would have involved at least five Al-Qaeda operatives,
including Yousef, Khan, Shah and two more unknown operatives. Starting on
January 21, 1995 and ending on January 22, 1995, they would set the bombs on
11 United States-bound airliners that had stopovers all around East Asia and
Southeast Asia. All of the flights had two legs. The bombs would be planted
inside life jackets under seats on the first leg, when each bomber would
disembark. He would then board one or two more flights and repeat. After all
of the bombers planted bombs on all of the flights, each man would then
catch flights to Lahore, Pakistan. The men never needed U.S. visas, as they
only would have stayed on the planes on their first legs in Asia.

United States airlines had been chosen instead of Asian airlines to maximize
the shock toward Americans. The flights targeted were listed under
operatives with codenames: "Zyed", "Majbos", "Markoa", "Mirqas" and "Obaid".
Obaid, who was really Abdul Hakim Murad, was to hit United flight 80, and
then he was to go back to Singapore under another United flight which he
would bomb. [1] [12] [13]

Zyed, probably Ramzi Yousef, was to hit Northwest Flight 30, a United Flight
going from Taipei to Honolulu, and a United Flight going from Bangkok to
Taipei to San Francisco [1] [16]

The bombs would have been timed before the operatives stepped off the
planes. The aircraft would have blown up over the Pacific Ocean and the
South China Sea almost simultaneously. If this plan worked, several thousand
would have perished, and air travel would have been shut down worldwide for
days, if not weeks. The U.S. government estimated the prospective death toll
to be about 4,000 if the plot had been executed.





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