Posted AT 9:04 PM EDT on 10/08/06
Airlines on high alert as terror threat thwarted
LONDON — British police said Thursday they thwarted a terrorist plot, possibly just days away, to blow up U.S.-bound jetliners over the Atlantic and kill thousands.
Accounts leaked by investigators described a plan on the scale of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that would use liquid explosives concealed as sports drink bottles and common electronic devices to bring down as many as 10 planes in a nearly simultaneous strike.
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