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...Waheed, who is believed to be either 19 or 21 and to have converted to Islam within the past year after what some neighbors describe as a troubled adolescence, has been reported by the British media as one of the 24 people arrested in connection with a plot to blow up U.S.-bound airliners. Nor was he the only convert among the named suspects. Among those on a list of 19 suspects named by the Bank of England on Thursday (which did not include Stewart-Whyte) was Oliver Savant, 25, who now goes by Ibrahim Savant and is reportedly...
...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 Islam while in a young offenders' prison during the mid-1990s. And one of the July 7 London bombers, Jamaican-born Germaine Lindsay, reportedly changed his name to Jamal when he converted and was married to a white woman, also a convert, with whom he had a young...
...official who was briefed on the plot, five still remain at large. Their plan was to smuggle the peroxide-based liquid explosive TATP and detonators onto nine different planes from four carriers - British Airways, Continental, United and American - that fly direct routes between the U.K and the U.S. and blow them up in midair. Intelligence officials estimate that about 2,700 people would have perished, according to the official...
...plot also appears to be a return to older terrorist tactics of trying to blow up an airplane in midair, rather than turn the jet into a missile as the Sept. 11 attackers did. Allen stressed that the plans seemed designed to kill passengers, not crash into a city on the ground. "We have no evidence there was targeting of cities," said Allen, "This was an effort to destroy multiple aircraft in flight - not against any territory of the United States...
...with the rest of the homes on the leafy, quiet street. The house is one of several that were raided by British police Wednesday night. Whether any of the resulting 24 arrests came from this property, the police won't confirm, although local politicians are calling the raids a blow to the close-knit multi-ethnic community. While neighbors say the house's occupants seemed nice enough, they don't know much about them: some say three brothers live there; others claim it's a married couple. The only reasonable reaction to the possibility that terrorists could be living next...