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Australia: Jihad plot to blow up plane with bomb hidden in Barbie doll

Aug 23, 2017 12:12 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

Lebanon’s interior minister has claimed a terror cell attempted to blow up a flight from Australia with bombs hidden in a Barbie doll and a meat grinder….Amer Khayyat planned to detonate an improvised explosive device 20 minutes into an Abu-Dhabi bound flight with 400 passengers onboard.

The Islamic State is said to have been involved in the plot, and surveillance was being run on the two brothers for a full year since one of them travelled to Syria, yet still this near catastrophe continued to unfold.

The randomness of improvised explosive devices (IED’s) makes their impact particularly dangerous. During the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, statistics as of 2013 indicted that over half to two-thirds of Americans killed and wounded were victim of IED’s.

Western nations continue to be sitting ducks, as jihadists continue to hide among the general populace, having the same freedoms as law-abiding citizens. Jihadis are traveling in and out of Western countries, joining foreign jihad wars and returning back “home” with renewed vigor, hatred and drive to wage jihad.

“Components for the IED were sent through international cargo” from members of the Islamic State to Australia.

“Australian terror plan to hide plane bomb in Barbie revealed”, BBC News, August 21, 2017:

Lebanon’s interior minister has claimed a terror cell attempted to blow up a flight from Australia with bombs hidden in a Barbie doll and a meat grinder.

He said Amer Khayyat planned to detonate an improvised explosive device 20 minutes into an Abu-Dhabi bound flight with 400 passengers onboard.

The plan was allegedly only aborted after the luggage containing the devices was deemed overweight.

Four men were arrested in Sydney counter-terrorism raids in July.

Two were released but Lebanese-Australian brothers Khaled Khayat, 49, and Mahmoud Khayat, 32 were charged with “preparing for, or planning, a terrorist attack”.

Australian authorities at the time confirmed the arrests related to a credible plot to bring down an aeroplane.

It then emerged the target was an Etihad flight from Sydney on 15 July.

Australian Federal Police (AFP) Deputy Commissioner Michael Phelan described the plan as “one of the most sophisticated plots that has ever been attempted on Australian soil”.

He said components for the IED were sent through international cargo from IS members to the men in Australia.

It is claimed a fourth brother, Tarek, is a senior member of the so-called Islamic State in Raqqa.

At a news conference on Monday, the Lebanese Interior Minister Nohad Machnouk said Amer Khayyat was forced to abandon the plan and to travel to Lebanon without the luggage after the bag was deemed overweight.

His story contradicts Australian authorities who previously claimed the travelling brother had the bomb planted on him unknowingly.

The minister said his country co-ordinated extensively with the Australian government over the plot.

He also claimed the brothers had been under surveillance for over a year since their brother travelled to Syria….

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Filed Under: Australia, Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Jihad in the West, Lebanon Tagged With: Barbie doll bomb, Nohad Machnouk Amer Khayyat Etihad flight Sydney


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  1. D Austin says

    Aug 23, 2017 at 12:49 pm

    It is impossible to stop all insurgency attacks. We are at war with an enemy that doesn’t wear a uniform.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Aug 24, 2017 at 7:57 am

      It does, very often, wear a Uniform.

      The women wear Gang Uniform – anything from the Slave Hood (‘headscarf) all the way through to the Slave Mask (Niqab and Burqa).

      Quite often the men do too – one of the markers is an untrimmed beard and a clean-shaven upper lip.

      • D Austin says

        Aug 24, 2017 at 8:27 am

        “one of the markers is an untrimmed beard and a clean-shaven upper lip” You mean like the Amish?

        Not all Tangos have beards. I”ve also found that many people in the western US can’t distinguish Middle East from Mexican when it comes to appearance.

  2. David F Barnard says

    Aug 23, 2017 at 12:50 pm

    Glad this was caught. Now TSA will check shoes, cameras, computers, meat grinders, and Barbies (with or without burka? ). Will someone on the Left be crying to outlaw Barbies?

    Wonder why they watched the perpetrators so long? Before acting.

  3. mariam rove says

    Aug 23, 2017 at 12:56 pm

    They use Barbie doll to blow up a plane and if they get a hold of an infidel Barbie looking doll they will rape and sodomize her according to Sharia laws. m

  4. Rob says

    Aug 23, 2017 at 1:20 pm

    So now the TSA will ban Barbie dolls. Should have been done years ago because Barbie dolls also make females into bulimics and anorexics. Or something.

    • Keys says

      Aug 23, 2017 at 3:53 pm

      Trans-Barbies and Cate Jenner dolls will not be banned.

  5. Robert_k says

    Aug 23, 2017 at 1:24 pm

    Perhaps, if they had used a Hijabi Barbie doll it would have not been checked for explosives as that would be Islamophobic.

  6. Guest says

    Aug 23, 2017 at 1:32 pm

    Must had been a big Barbie

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Aug 24, 2017 at 7:57 am

      You don’t need much TATP to cause quite a nasty explosion.

  7. somehistory says

    Aug 23, 2017 at 1:35 pm

    A “Get Smart” episode had KAOS using dolls to smuggle weapons. They also had an episode where the bad guys were giving away ‘”toasters” for books of stamps and the toasters were weapons.

    Maybe moslums watch “Get Smart.” But, they should know that 86 and 99 always foiled KAOS.

  8. John A. Marre says

    Aug 23, 2017 at 3:28 pm

    Makes more sense to ban Muslims than barbie dolls.

    • D Austin says

      Aug 23, 2017 at 3:33 pm

      Maybe it’s the new Politically Correct Jihad Barbie from Mattel…

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Aug 24, 2017 at 7:58 am

      Yes.

  9. Lydia says

    Aug 23, 2017 at 9:36 pm

    Oh my heavens! But how can we warn about terrorist attacks, and planned terror attacks, and stop terror attacks, if that is considered ‘islamophobic,’ and ‘hating’ by the SPLC?!

    We should just turn a blind eye and let all these innocent people die in islamic inspired terrorist attacks, and not try to diagnose the root of the crime, to make these bully hate groups happy like the SPLC.

    When all these innocent people die, then they will be happy. Because according to them, that is ‘loving.’ It is loving according to them because they are leftists, and leftists think backwards on matters like this. So ‘hate’ is love, and ‘love’ is hate. ‘Good’ is bad, and ‘bad’ is good. Etc.

    You have to get in the mind of a leftist, which I know is hard, plus a squeeze of an effort because of the size issue.

    ( ;

  10. gravenimage says

    Aug 23, 2017 at 9:45 pm

    Australia: Jihad plot to blow up plane with bomb hidden in Barbie doll
    ……………..

    Any normal person looks at a Barbie doll and thinks, “fun toy for kids”. A pious Muslim looks at a Barbie doll and thinks, “I can hide explosives in that”.

    God, I hate Islam.

  11. FYI says

    Aug 24, 2017 at 7:46 am

    muslims actually have their own Barbie doll called Fulla(Jasmine) but it might have given the game away to use one as Fulla wears a hijab.

    It might have evoked suspicion too easily in an over zealous security man.

    “This doll,you say her name is Fulla?
    Fulla what?…Semtex,IEDs,taqqiya,jihadist ideology,sheeth,insidious intent,malice aforethought??”

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