AL-QAEDA PUBLISHES INSTRUCTIONS FOR BOMB TO PASS AIRPORT SECURITY LONDON, England – As if last week’s deadly attacks in France and warnings of plots to inflict mass casualties in the West weren’t bad enough, Al-Qaeda has published detailed instructions on how to build an undetectable bomb designed to blow up a passenger plane. The organisation’s Arabian Peninsula branch in Yemen, which has been linked to the Paris carnage, has also prioritised its targets, with the United States followed by Britain in the two top spots. In the latest edition of its online magazine Inspire, which features a passenger jet on the cover, the group outlines how to make a bomb from household items without the use of metal components that would alert airport security. The chilling text instructs readers how to build the device from “simple materials that are readily available around the globe,” going on to pinpoint the best location on an aircraft to detonate the device to ensure maximum destruction. According to Al-Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), it has “spared no effort in simplifying the idea” so that any “determined Muslim can prepare.” AQAP was behind Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s 2009 attempt to blow up a passenger jet over the US city of Detroit. The bomb, concealed in his underwear, failed to detonate and “the underpants bomber” was subsequently jailed for life. Chérif and Saïd Kouachi, last week’s Charlie Hebdo magazine killers, are thought to have been trained by AQAP in Yemen, where at least one of them met Anwar al-Awlaki, the group’s spiritual leader until his death in 2011 at the hands of US forces. Awlaki founded Inspire magazine, which has been linked to seven out of 10 terror plots against British targets alone since 2010, according to a report in Britain’s Sunday Times. The Times quoted an explosives expert who was sceptical that the bomb AQAP was instructing its readers to build would evade detection. The expert also doubted its effectiveness, saying it was more likely to burn rapidly, “in the manner of a firework.” Four years ago, however, the first edition of Inspire featured the infamous “Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom” explosives guide. The manual was suspected to have been the recipe for disaster that went on to kill three and injure more than 250 in last year’s Boston Marathon bombings. In the latest edition of Inspire, the group called for a new generation of “lone wolf” terrorists to blow up American Airlines, United and Delta planes using the new, supposedly undetectable homemade bombs. According to AQAP, the high-profile airlines should be targeted in a bid to make headlines and “crush the enemy’s economy.” Also targeted in the Inspire article are UK carriers British Airways and EasyJet, as well as Air France.
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 07:07:01 +0000
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