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Al Qaeda blueprint for London attack found
A British newspaper says it has found a notebook at an al Qaeda training camp in Kandahar, Afghanistan that contained a terrorist blueprint for an attack on London.
A British newspaper says it has found a notebook at an al Qaeda training camp in Kandahar, Afghanistan that contained a terrorist blueprint for an attack on London.
Early editions of the Observer, a national Sunday newspaper, said, terrorists linked to Osama bin Laden have drawn up plans for a devastating bomb attack on the city of London, the capital's financial district.
The 80-page document contained step-by-step instructions for constructing a remote-controlled van bomb like those used against the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, the report said.
A scribbled note on one page suggested the target was Moorgate in the centre of London's financial district, the observer said. Moorgate is a banking and insurance area and the location of a stop on the London underground railway.
It was written in good English, in note form ... Apparently by the man, who would construct the bomb, the report said, adding that the language suggested he was a British fundamentalist.
Bureau Report
The 80-page document contained step-by-step instructions for constructing a remote-controlled van bomb like those used against the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, the report said.
A scribbled note on one page suggested the target was Moorgate in the centre of London's financial district, the observer said. Moorgate is a banking and insurance area and the location of a stop on the London underground railway.
It was written in good English, in note form ... Apparently by the man, who would construct the bomb, the report said, adding that the language suggested he was a British fundamentalist.
Bureau Report