Prior reports have already suggested the same, with one discussing the possible use of female suicide bombers. "Terrorism: Al-Qaeda warns of 'dozens' of in-flight bombs," from AdnKronos International, February 18:
Sanaa, 18 Feb. (AKI) - Al-Qaeda has prepared "dozens" more bombs like the one used by the young Nigerian accused of trying to blow up an airliner in the United States on 25 December last year. The claim was allegedly made by the Yemen-based Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula terror cell in a message posted in its online magazine 'al-Malamih'.
"We have dozens of sophisticated explosive devices which are similar to that used by the Nigerian,Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab on the Christmas Day flight from Amsterdam to Detroit," said the message in 'al-Malamih'.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula said in December it had provided Abdulmutallab with the explosive device he allegedly used to try to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 with nearly 300 people aboard.
"The plan was to blow up the plane as it approached Detroit, so that it would fall onto buildings below and kill the maximum number of Americans," the message said.
Had it succeeded, it would have been the worst attack on the United States since Al-Qaeda's September 11 2001 assault.
"Four years ago, we began producing similar devices to that used by Umar Farouk," the 'al-Malamih' message said.
AQAP was officially formed in January 2009 from a merger of Al-Qaeda's Yemeni and Saudi branches.
The message claimed that Abdulmutallab trained at camps in Yemen in the second half of last year and was eager to "go into action".
Abdulmutallab was "always quiet and thought a lot," kept to himself, read the Koran and fasted every Monday and Thursday, the message said.
The explosive material used in the device concealed in the Nigerian's underwear was 'Pent', it stated.
Just four grammes of the substance are needed to produce a major blast, it claimed.
"The reason we chose a flight that left from (the Dutch capital) Amsterdam, is that the Netherlands is a country that has offended the Koran and Islam," the message stated.
This may be a reference to late Dutch director Theo Van Gogh's film 'Submission' which was aired on Dutch TV in 2004...
And/or Geert Wilders' Fitna, though the jihadists' claim of revenge on Amsterdam through this act seems like a hollow excuse to agitate for the erosion of free speech in Europe. Never mind that the mandate for jihad to impose Islamic law exists regardless of excuse du jour offered in jihadist propaganda.
Few remember Operation Bojinka because it failed.
Few remember first WTC attack because it wasn't as successful as hoped (>200K killed).
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Even fewer remember that OBL (Osama Bin Laden) has permission to kill up to 9,999,999 Americans in the cities of:
New York, Washington, D.C., Las Vegas, Miami, Boston, Houston, and Los Angeles.
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/The worst part is, if Muslims succeeded in above, they'd be afforded the same protections guaranteed U.S. Citizens per Obama's recent declarations to try "defendants" in criminal courts where ALL 12 jurors MUST agree that accused is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, i.e., 97% or higher.
Thursday brought yet another example of how serious this threat is being taken-but the report was lost in the fog of the Austin IRS plane suicide
Bomb threat on United Airlines flight - diverted, SLC, video report at link
Fox13 Emergency landing for potential bomb threat
Fight back.
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As I have said before on this blog. I have just returned to Europe from the Middle East and security at the airport is nothing less than a joke. Chap sits at end of luggage line sticking security passes on all suitcases etc., without even looking up at the person whose luggage it is. the guy at the 'security screen' was playing with his mobile phone and not paying one second of attention to what was being passed through the screen. Unbelievable but absolutely true - just where security should be at its maximum where enough covered women are boarding planes going to Europe and all over the world.
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And still the Western ignoramuses will come to the conclusion that white 70 years old Christian grannies wiill be more likely to carry explosive charges on their person than Muslims, and will be made to remove their shoes whilst 25 years old brown-skinned Muslims get waved through by complicit fellow Muslim airport 'security staff', who were only taken on to avoid charges of racism and bigotry against airport security companies by self-loathing leftist handwringers. Such is the hard wiring of political correctness into the Western mind.
And on 9/11, the death toll would have been at least 30,000 had that atrocity taken place 60 or 90 minutes later, when those towers would have been full.
And as for the Muslims succeeding in killing millions of US citizens and being tried with full Miranda rights, we know that Muslims would insist on there being at least one Muslim and no Jews on the 12 strong jury.