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In 1994 al-Qaeda foreshadowed the London plot almost exactly when Pakistani terrorist Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who went on to mastermind the 9/11 attacks, drew up a scheme to bomb 12 planes over the Pacific during a 48-hour period. They nicknamed the plan Bojinka. They intended...
The latest suspects, if they are proved guilty, will join a growing list of British extremist converts: Currently serving a life sentence for trying to blow up an American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami in December 2001 is "shoe bomber" Richard Reid, who is believed to have converted to...
More recently, British shoe bomber Richard Reid tried to detonate his device with TATP as the initiator while aboard a Dec. 22, 2001, American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami. A mixture of TATP and ammonium nitrate was used in suicide bombs in Casablanca, Moroco on May 16, 2003. And...
Meanwhile, passengers arriving at Kennedy International Airport in New York City on Thursday faced longer waits and frustrating requests to rearrange their luggage. However, most felt it was a necessary step to ensure safety and were willing to go along with the new measures banning liquid items from being carried...
People preparing for departing flights at the JetBlue airlines terminal were met by airline officials instructing them that items like hair gels, aerosol cans and even lipstick must be placed into their check-in luggage, prompting longer waits in the normally quick midday lines, and forcing several people to step...