“Yalcin is also said to have asked his paragliding instructor for aerial photographs of a Gibraltar shopping mall ‘whatever the cost’. He said it was for works that his construction firm, for whom he had worked for several years, was about to embark on.” But actually it was for his destruction firm.
“Al Qaeda trio arrested in Spain ‘wanted to attack busy Gibraltar shopping centre from the air during the Olympics,'” by Lee Moran for the Daily Mail, August 6 (thanks to David):
Three suspected Al Qaeda terrorists arrested in Spain last week could have been planning to launch a devastating attack on a busy Gibraltar shopping centre from the air.
Spanish security services suspect the trio – two Chechen Russians and a Turk – were planning to assault the British colony to the south of Spain from above.
The exact date of the alleged planned attack is unknown – but Spanish media today suggested launching it during the Olympics would have guaranteed maximum publicity for the terror organisation.
And El PaÃs newspaper has reported how the Turkish ‘facilitator of the cell’ Cengiz Yalcin was a keen paraglider and model aeroplane enthusiast and was learning how to fly.
He was also paying for the two Russians of Chechen descent – Eldar Magomedov and Mohamed Ankari Adamov – to learn how to pilot a small plane.
Yalcin is also said to have asked his paragliding instructor for aerial photographs of a Gibraltar shopping mall ‘whatever the cost’.
He said it was for works that his construction firm, for whom he had worked for several years, was about to embark on.
And Spanish investigators today also said they had found a video where Yalvin was flying a remote-controlled aeroplane.
At a prepared moment, the plane, one or two metres long, manouevres into a descent and lets a packet drop from inside. On the ground, El PaÃs reports, Yalcin is seen celebrating the feat….