Newspapers Say Terorists Eyed Planes Headed To Bay State
The Associated Press Massachusetts State Police officers with automatic weapons patrol a terminal at Logan International Airport in Boston yesterday. Gov. Mitt Romney also deployed National Guard troops to the airport following the foiled terrorist plot to use liquid explosives to blow up airplanes between Britain and the United States.
BOSTON -- Boston may have been one of the targets in the alleged plot to blow up airplanes headed to the United States from Great Britain, according to published reports.
NewsCenter 5's Steve Lacey reported Friday that information out of London Friday is in sharp contradiction to what Gov. Mitt Romney said Thursday about the plot.
Several British newspapers are quoting U.S. officials saying the planes targeted by the terrorists were headed to New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles and Boston.
British authorities said that the plan was to blow up planes in mid-flight using explosives smuggled in hand luggage.
The newspapers reported the bombs were to detonate not over the Atlantic Ocean -- but over the cities while the planes were landing, causing even more casualties on the ground.
Despite these reports, the governor is standing by his assertion that the Hub was not at risk.
The airlines targeted were United, American, and Continental. Some estimate that the plot could have killed about 4,000 people.
Security analysts believe this attack was the "big one" al-Qaeda promised to carry out after 9/11. One FBI official said if it actually did happen "the world would have stood still."
British Police have 24 suspects in custody.
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