Terrorists planning to assemble bombs on planes

Feb 12, 2004 12:00 PM

Terrorist groups plan to evade airport security by carrying bombs components onto flights and assembling the devices when they are on the plane, according to a report in London's The Observer.
Teams of terrorists have carried out at least 12 "dry runs" of the plan, the weekly newspaper says, quoting unnamed security sources in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere.
The idea was to test the scheme on flights around the Mediterranean and the Middle East, where security standards are less stringent, before attempting to bring down a transatlantic airliner.
U.S. authorities have warned that teams of five passengers could carry aboard separate components of a bomb hidden in modified items such as cameras, the paper says.

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