Al Qaeda 'chemical attack' Airlines

[Mark Gobell]

International Civil Aviation Security Council

14-04-2012 [Preview]

New al Qaeda playbook promotes chemical attack against Civil Aviation

Radical Islamists are plotting a new threat to Civil Aviation according to records and videos in a newly produced al Qaeda playbook.

Al Qaeda Airlines is the name of the terror organization's latest playbook, a chilling reminder of September 11, 2001 when skyjackers commandeered United and American jets and flew them into the World Trade Centre, the Pentagon and the ground in Pennsylvania.

Those terrorists used box cutters. Al Qaeda's new plot, counts on chemicals. A video offers explicit instructions to would-be jihadists on how to conjure up chloroform, a chemical solvent that can be used as a knock-out drug. The chloroform recipe is demonstrated in five online videos that supplement this new magazine produced by The Global Islamic Front of Jihad and Jews and Crusaders.

The cover of the first issue headlined "al Qaeda Airlines" features an ominous-looking photo of a jetliner flying into the sunset. Among the 73 pages that follow are details of the chloroform-making process and how to administer it to an unsuspecting victim, the implication being that al Qaeda operatives would do this to the crew and passengers of a jetliner.

In 2010, the al Qaeda magazine Inspire was promoting the use of pick-up trucks with sharpened blades to ram pedestrians in Chicago and elsewhere. Inspire's publishers were killed in a U.S. Drone strike.

This new magazine is said to be put out by al Qaeda explosives expert Abdullah Dhu al Bajadin and like its predecessor, calls on Allah to "free the Muslim prisoners," including Chicago "brother Shakir Masri," who is awaiting trial here on charges that he wanted to blow a busload of American soldiers. The question for law enforcement and terror experts is if al Qaeda operatives are able to smuggle chloroform past airport security screeners, what else are they planning to sneak onto passenger planes?

"We're going to be able to keep metal things off planes but we're not going to be able to keep the sort of chemicals or especially biological agents, whether it's a modified flu virus or a modified plague, something that catches, something they don't have to inflict on every victim, the victims will inflict it on each other unknowingly," The capacity for making those bugs increases every day and it's, at some point, bad guys are going to get the capacity to come up with something that could truly be devastating. The first evidence that al Qaeda had a new motivational magazine came last week on an internet forum for radical Islamists. The shadowy figure behind the new publication is considered by law enforcement to be an expert in explosives. He once hosted a live chartroom conversation for wanna-be bombers.

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06-04-2012 Al Qaeda 'coming soon' to NYC, graphic warns

A mysterious image threatening the return to New York of Al Qaeda has appeared on a handful of Arabic websites, prompting the New York police department and federal authorities to investigate.

The chilling graphic, which looks like a poster for an upcoming movie, includes the English-language taunt, "Al Qaeda Coming Soon Again in New York." NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said the image appeared in the "artwork and design" section of a murky site used as a forum for terror talk.

"The NYPD Intelligence Division’s cyber unit is investigating the origin and significance of the graphic below which appeared today on few Arabic-language Al Qaeda forums that remain online at the moment," Browne said. While city and federal authorities said there is no known threat behind the posting, they are trying to determine who is behind it. An FBI spokesman said the bureau is conducting a probe of its own. "The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force is aware of the posting and investigating its authenticity and origin," said J. Peter Donald, spokesman for the FBI's New York Field Office. "The FBI takes all threats seriously and at this time there is no specific or credible threat to New York."


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