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Muslim airline pilots planned to bomb four UK cities for the Islamic State

Jan 24, 2016 11:01 am By Robert Spencer

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“RAF ‘foiled ISIS airline terror plot to bomb four UK cities after cracking pop song code,'” by Steve Robson, Mirror, January 24, 2016 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

The RAF foiled an Islamic State terror plot to bomb four UK cities after intercepting suspicious chatter between commercial airline pilots, it has been claimed.

The suspected jihadists made references to attacks on London, Brighton, Bath and Ipswich in the days after the Paris massacre last November, it was reported.

The two pilots, who were leaving Amsterdam’s airport Schiphol for a Middle Eastern country, used coded language which made reference to pop music, the Sunday Express claims.

But it was reportedly cracked by GCHQ experts who believed the pair were planning to smuggle in explosives or chemical weapons.

The pair used the emergency ‘Mayday’ frequency to discuss their plans, it was reported.

The Ministry of Defence said today it would not comment on matters of national security.

The Government considered increasing the terror threat level in Britain to ‘critical’ from ‘severe’ in the wake of the attacks on the streets of Paris last November 13 which left 130 dead.

It also emerged last year that defence chiefs have drawn up plans to deploy more than 5,000 troops on the streets of the UK in the event of a terrorist attack.

The plan, codenamed Operation Temperer, would see the army protect key targets alongside armed police.

It comes as France vowed to keep its state of emergency until a ‘total and global war’ against ISIS has been won.

Prime Minister Manuel Valls said the country would not relent in its high-security strategy, while also warning Europe’s migration crisis was putting EU countries at risk.

The measures give police more power to conduct raids and impose house arrests….

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Filed Under: Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), United Kingdom Tagged With: Amsterdam, Bath, Brighton, Ipswich, London, Schiphol


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  1. billybob says

    Jan 24, 2016 at 11:15 am

    “The pair used the emergency ‘Mayday’ frequency to discuss their plans, it was reported.” How stupid can they get? Airwaves are closely monitored for misuse, whether inadvertent or deliberate. Any chatter from airline pilots would become immediately suspicious, no matter what they are talking about. It is a grievous breach of protocol and could result in immediate dismissal. Talk about offspring of cousin marriages…

  2. خَليفة says

    Jan 24, 2016 at 11:16 am

    All civilized countries ( i.e. Non Muslim ) should follow France’s lead, stop immigration, investigate all refugees, close mosques link to terror, deport illegals as needed. Until such time that ISIS is no more.

    • Christianblood says

      Jan 24, 2016 at 11:26 am

      The problem is not ISIS the problem is islam and as long as there are muslims who are seriously following the teachings of this evil death cult (islam) there will always be barbaric islamic terrorists. It is also extremely foolish and suicidal to trust muslim to pilot ‘infidel’ passengers because you never know when they are going snap and turn into jihadist killers.

      • EveryoneIsEqual says

        Jan 24, 2016 at 7:32 pm

        ”The problem is not ISIS the problem is Islam”

        Did you really say that you are just as stupid as these pilots.

        Look into Islam and you we see that ISIS are to trying rewrite the Qu’ran.

        • robm says

          Jan 24, 2016 at 7:52 pm

          the Kwerawn?

        • Peggy says

          Jan 24, 2016 at 8:37 pm

          NO, they are following the Qu’ran to the letter.
          Who are you trying to fool?

        • SpiritOf1683 says

          Jan 25, 2016 at 3:00 pm

          ISIS aren’t trying to rewrite the Koran. They’re following Muhammad’s example. Now go away self-loathing troll. Not everyone is equal but you’re certainly stupid, or a covert Jihadi.

  3. Hope says

    Jan 24, 2016 at 11:26 am

    All of this time and money being spent on trying to prevent the next attack. And still, Muslim immigrants are being allowed into Europe and the US in unprecedented numbers. Stupidity of the West. Sometimes I think, if our societies are this gullible, maybe we don’t deserve to survive. I know that sounds cruel and unthinkable….maybe I’m just feeling especially discouraged today.

    • j_not_a says

      Jan 24, 2016 at 1:53 pm

      I agree Hope. State of emergency extended in France meanwhile Hollande stated he is still going to allow 30,000 “refugees” from Syria! What madness. And still the ridiculous fiasco in Calais goes on and gets worse by the day and the idiot mayor keeps blaming Britain by saying if Britain didn’t have such generous benefits the “migrants” wouldn’t keep coming to Calais! What planet does that bint come from? Is there one sane leader in any European country except for Orban?

      By the way, love that photo of the head scratching Dithering Dave in Denial. He still thinks “Islam is a Great Religion”. I don’t think Dithering Dave will ever “get it” even if/when he is kneeling in an orange suit with a sword swinging over him.

    • Peggy says

      Jan 24, 2016 at 8:39 pm

      We are not stupid. We are betrayed by our leaders who should be shot.
      Very few people are getting fooled. A lot are working against us and the rest are powerless for now.
      We need patriots to lead us.

      • j_not_a says

        Jan 24, 2016 at 10:58 pm

        Well don’t you guys pretty much keep voting these same clowns in again and again?

        • ECAW says

          Jan 25, 2016 at 3:03 am

          Yeah, same as you. Effing shame isn’t it?

        • j_not_a says

          Jan 25, 2016 at 4:18 pm

          Ah ECAW actually NO. Im Canadian. We had a good PM for over 10 years. We just voted in a dunderhead a few months ago.

        • ECAW says

          Jan 25, 2016 at 4:27 pm

          Welcome to the suicide club then.

  4. KrazyKafir says

    Jan 24, 2016 at 12:05 pm

    Were these pilots of foreign carriers, or western? Why are they not in custody?

  5. robm says

    Jan 24, 2016 at 12:36 pm

    Which Airline?

  6. Richard P, Sweden says

    Jan 24, 2016 at 12:56 pm

    How come these threats all the time? Though so much different aid to the developing world for decades there are new threats from it all the time.
    There are different strong advantages over Europe and the US for islam, and it is well aware of it.
    .1 Democratic. They can easily become majority and by democratically organized voting be able to take over community after community voting for their own representants. Sticking strongly together.
    2. Financially. Strong economy resulting in influence in banks, companies, the scientific world, Universities, media and in all most important and sensitive parts of any state, country, community.
    3. The use of terror to demand respect and obedience.
    Cannot believe any democratic opinion wants this and neither that any democratic Government does.
    Cannot believe any democratic majority or Government want islam to rule instead of the people.
    Governments must cut aid dramatically and strengthen security. Aid has gone too far. It has not changed any undemocratic ideology, it just helps to spread it instead.

    • robm says

      Jan 24, 2016 at 1:43 pm

      well said

      • Richard P, Sweden says

        Jan 24, 2016 at 2:05 pm

        Thanks

    • RickMT says

      Jan 25, 2016 at 1:13 pm

      Breeding like flies has its quirks, and they brag about it. So sad so many Infidels are short term thinkers and never think of the future.

  7. wallace says

    Jan 24, 2016 at 1:20 pm

    For heaven’s sake, we have more to worry us here in the U.K , like keeping the likes of Donald Trump out. I never realy had much time for “the Donald” saw him as a bit of a bully over the way he conducted himself in Scotland when he used heavy handed tactics on locals who stood in his way over the building of a golf course. 500,000 signatures to ban him , hours of debate in Parliament. Is this what it’s come to over here. I just signed an online petition to ban sharia courts in the U.K i think we have about 30,000 signatures up till now. I sometimes wish i was as clueless as i was before i went on Amazon and bought Robert Spencer’s The Complete Infidels Guide To The Quran, no i’m only joking, it woke me up. I at my age may never see the total collapse of our culture , but i have kids and grandchildren . and i sure as fuck will not go quietly into the dark night. All i can do is be a pain in the arse , i have done a wealth of reading into the wonderful world of Islam over the last few years and now do my best to put people straight on the reigion of peace bullshit that they are foisting on us, Liberty G.B for me and mine.

    • j_not_a says

      Jan 24, 2016 at 2:01 pm

      Too bad your people didn’t put half as much time and energy into getting rid of hate preacher Anjem Choudary as they did trying to keep out Donald Trump it would have been much better spent.

  8. jayell says

    Jan 24, 2016 at 3:36 pm

    This story has cropped up in other UK Sunday newspapers, but they’re keeping quiet about the airline involved – it could be any based in the Middle East. Obvious conclusion – don’t fly with any of them. It’s also yet ANOTHER example of ‘upright, dependable’ muslims in ‘high places’ (literally!), with good, well-paid jobs, etc. etc., yet clearly are duplicitous as sin and can’t be trusted. Just like all the doctors, teachers, etc., etc., and I don’t care to think about any of them in the legal profession. But, of course, that all goes with the taqqyia and all other features of this wonderful ‘Religion of Peace’ that is supposed to be such an iconic example to us all. One or two other people here commented on the apparent stupidity of these pilots, behaving like overgrown schoolboys in some kind of ‘James Bond’ secret-agent game, obviously oblivious to the fact that if the boys and girls at GCHQ could crack the Enigma machine in WW2, they could easily see through this prattle.

    And ‘idiocy’ seems to be the keyword behind evrything that’s been going on recently with our friends from the muslim world. If they really wanted to take the world over they should have tried it with a bit of clever subtlety and without anyone noticing – but that obviously isn’t the muslim style, or it’s just plain beyond them. As it is, we all know their disgusting game by now ( they’ve made it clear enough!) and it’s now just a case of waiting for the Western veneer of civility to crack and they get what they know is coming to them (we know they know that as well, because they’ve lied about it regularly enough in their predictable ‘victim’ games when the expected revenge for their atrocities hasn’t materialised).

    Those sentences from the article….”The two pilots, who were leaving Amsterdam’s airport Schiphol for a Middle Eastern country, used coded language…But it was reportedly cracked by GCHQ experts….”

    Where have we heard that sort of thing before? In documentaries about WW2, but that was 70+ years ago, and this is today. Looks like this might documentary material for some future programme about WW3.

    • robm says

      Jan 24, 2016 at 4:30 pm

      Ditto

  9. Jon says

    Jan 24, 2016 at 4:36 pm

    It’s their own idiocy that will eventually lead to the demise of ISIS and its adherents.

  10. mortimer says

    Jan 24, 2016 at 9:45 pm

    Meanwhile…Western elites ignore the most important battlefield…that of IDEOLOGICAL WARFARE AGAINTST ISLAM…the ideology of world conquest through torture, deception, misogyny and slavery.

  11. rod elliot says

    Jan 25, 2016 at 3:41 am

    They would not have used the emergency frequency, as it is monitored and all messages must be responded to. But they may have been using the pilot to pilot frequency of 12345. Even so, I would have thought that a burner-phone would be more secure than an open frequency that many pilots listen to.

  12. Frank Day says

    Jan 25, 2016 at 6:35 am

    “The plan, codenamed Operation Temperer, would see the army protect key targets alongside armed police.”
    Protect key targets.
    So, when it kicks off, we’ll all have to take shelter in mosques.

  13. jack dawes says

    Jan 25, 2016 at 9:01 am

    I don’t blame the sicko muslim child beheading rapist monsters who are the isis members-I don’t even blame their broader muslim support base -who are all muslims and mostly sympathisers with isis -ie 70 %of muslims in luton sympathised with the London bombers for example.
    I blame the politicians and politically correct ruling elitists who defend muslims and stifle freedom of speech and democracy.
    these elitists and champagne socialists and professional classes and the political classes and media folk- feel is their right and even duty to protect muslim sensativities and not to protect us the non muslim democratic majority.
    consider how nearly everyone in the uk is being tricked mislead and lied to which has resulted in all of us being forced to eat halal meat daily-as all the takeaways and supermarkets sell halal-and many non halal suppliers are now out of business so it gets worse by the day.
    this matters and is a wonderful clear example of how we are despised by our undemocratic ruling elite.
    we led the way in the world introducing the cruelty to animals act legislation to more greatly respect animal welfare and enshrine some minimal rights for animals in law and rightly so I think.
    this law prevents us from being unduly cruel to animals and is probably most famous for the clause about stunning pre-slaughter.
    this means animals wont flap about conscious and in stark terror hung upside down and with their throats cut -which can go on for up to 30 mins-but no more because we made it illegal -wait not so-it is illegal only for non muslims and jews to do that-so for most of us who respect the law and democracy and animal rights -we cannot anymore be so cruel to animals ….. however muslims and jews are made exempt from the law we have to obey and are permitted to continue the barbaric practices of olden times.
    not only does this mean the law is an ass and animals receive no protection at all but it also puts all the non muslim and jew meat suppliers out of business permanently as our politically correct ruling elite give contracts to only halal suppliers ie in schools etc as to do otherwise would infringe the rights of muslims.
    how does this protect animals ? how does this make the law accountable and sensible and useful ? how does this reflect public values and demonstrate democracy in practice ? how does this help the uk food industry and jobs and non muslim and non jewish slaughter men and meat suppliers and processors and distributers etc ?

    worst of all-is that millions of animal respecting civilised English folk who obey the law and support democracy are now forced to have to eat halal and kosher meat every day all over the uk so we partake in the cruelty and reward the cruel and deny animals the protection we enshrined in law-the only beneficiaries are the muslims and jews-everyone else loses including the animals.

    when you consider this example and then think of all the other criminal cultural practices carried out on an industrial scale in the uk by muslims doesn’t it seem obvious that its our elitist ruling class who allow muslims special rights to ignore our laws and this leads to us not being protected and them feeling they are entitled to despise us in so many ways-not just bombing us and beheading but raping white female children and mutilating genitals and female baby abortions and forced marriage and child marriage and honour killings and tortures and female sex segregation in schools and muslim leaders telling children and women they must not report sex crimes and violence to the police or authorities etc.
    all these things are illegal yet all are permitted and often encouraged and covered up and the perpetrators are also often defended and so you cannot tell the truth for fear of prosecution -hence the 1400 plus white children got raped and enslaved and murdered and tortured in Rotherham and if say 95% of those involved were Pakistani and Bangladeshi men then you cannot say that and report it without politicians and police and lawyers and reporters all saying it is wrong and simply wrong to even mention let alone imply there may be connection between criminal behaviour and culture and religion and secret foreign minority societies in the uk.
    they even harass and threaten ppl on London streets -who are showing legs and drinking alcohol etc and they also have their own laws and law courts and rights to apply the laws in our country ie sharia and that will lead to stoning and beheading and limb amputation and blinding punishments in time.

    they should be forced to live under and obey our laws as we are forced to and if they were they would inter marry and learn English and respect animal rights and female rights and childrens rights etc and we would have more integrated muslim immigrants akin to the usa-but we don’t-so we have a reputation for being a muslim boiler house of extremists and terrorists and we have zero integration and 5 million people living totally outside our laws in every way possible including terrorism.

    I expect terrorism to grow and continue for many decades unless a radical change takes place in the uk and I expect sharia law to start beheading and blinding ppl in the decades ahead-for all we know they all ready carry out the punishments here in the uk and no one non muslim knows or dare not report it-even if it isn’t happening yet it is going to one day-in that context surely you must agree our ruling elite have inflicted all this misery on us the law abiding indigenous democratic majority population.
    that’s my opinion and sorry if it upsets anyone but I am entitled to an opinion.

    • ECAW says

      Jan 25, 2016 at 9:40 am

      Don’t think you’ll get an argument from anyone here Jack. Did you see Liberty GB’s Christmas banner “All we want for Christmas is our leaders tried for treason”?

    • Yitz says

      Jan 25, 2016 at 11:09 am

      Don’t mention Jews and Muslims in the same breath.Jews are merciful. Muslims are cruel killers

      • brenrod says

        Jan 25, 2016 at 2:19 pm

        of course, you cant compare the Nobel Prize winners with the honor killers and head choppers.

      • ECAW says

        Jan 25, 2016 at 2:37 pm

        As I understand it jack dawes is only connecting Muslims and Jews in their equally cruel methods of killing animals. Is that controversial? Are they not similar?

        He was not connecting them in wider terms of general mercifulness or Nobel prizes, as should be obvious.

        • brenrod says

          Jan 25, 2016 at 2:44 pm

          specific mercifulness is a subclass of general mercifulness……. the behavior of those who gravitate towards advancing the world and achieving Nobel Prizes is expectedly different from those who honor kill, chop heads, suicide bomb, schoolgirl kidnap and enslave, etc etc etc….. need I elaborate?

        • ECAW says

          Jan 25, 2016 at 3:10 pm

          So because Jews are generally merciful they must necessarily be merciful in specific areas, even those in which they are not? I’m not following you. I think you do need to elaborate.

          But in the mean time just answer me this…is shechita slaughter less cruel than halal?

  14. wildbill2u says

    Jan 25, 2016 at 12:07 pm

    Governments never want to give away their methods and operational secrets so they often make up false stories to explain away sensitive information that they want to keep concealed. Let’s hope this is the case here because I agree that emergency frequencies are monitored and pilots would know that.

  15. Angemon says

    Jan 25, 2016 at 12:43 pm

    Prime Minister Manuel Valls said the country would not relent in its high-security strategy, while also warning Europe’s migration crisis was putting EU countries at risk.

    You don’t say!

  16. Buck Wheaton says

    Jan 25, 2016 at 2:56 pm

    I have been an airplane driver for over 40 years. The emergency frequency is commonly called “Guard” and for very good reason. It always has many people who monitor it. Much of the monitoring is automatically recorded. A single word spoken on it will instantly focus attention. So, you can bet when two pilots started chatting away, especially if they did so in Arabic, you can bet that a lot of people became curious. In fact, it was about the most public way to carry on a radio conversation that I can think of, at least for aviation.

    The pilots must be the product of a quaint native custom in their native lands: consanguineous marriage.

  17. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Jan 25, 2016 at 6:03 pm

    Highly-trained, well-paid commercial airline pilots?!

    But … but … POVERTY CAUSES CRIME!

    Everybody knows that!

    And if the pilots – who are never checked by security – could do this, then why didn’t they just blow up their own planes in the first place?

    So something smells fishy about all of this!

    I know! It’s all the right-wing media’s fault! Whee!

    😉

  18. Neversink says

    Jan 26, 2016 at 1:47 am

    Why did the government give all the information on how these pilots’ nefarious plans were intercepted. Now they will know better in the future. It astounds me that this information was made public!!

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