The '£7,000 terror plot'
The alleged plan to blow up 10 airliners has cost Britain £300m, but would have taken just a few thousand pounds to execute
By Kim Sengupta
"The alleged plot to blow up transatlantic airliners, described as one of the most highly sophisticated terrorist operations ever organised, would have cost less than £ 7,000 to carry out, according to security sources.
Estimates vary on the total cost of the disruption caused last month by the alleged plot. But all sources agree it is upwards of £300m. British Airways alone lost £40m in the week after police arrested the alleged plotters.
It had been claimed that huge sums of money were transferred from Pakistan to "blow up" as many as 10 aircraft packed with passengers heading for the US.
However, the alleged attacks would have cost no more than the money estimated to have been spent on the 7/7 suicide bombings in London last year, and there is no evidence of vast amounts of money coming from abroad.
Despite the widespread destructive capabilities of the alleged plan, described as "mass murder on an unimaginable scale" by Scotland Yard deputy chief commissioner Paul Stephenson, and its international dimensions, the actual costs incurred would have been relatively little, say investigators.
The explosive mixture, which would allegedly have been used to produce bombs on board the planes, including a volatile liquid known as HMTD, is fairly inexpensive to buy.
Seven "martyrdom videos", allegedly made by six suspects, one allegedly stating "as you bomb, you will be bombed; as you kill, you will be killed", would have had a total production cost of less than £15. The police also allegedly found computer memory cards, CDs and DVDs containing details of the attack, altogether costing less than £500."
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This reminds me of a plan I read where it stated that bankrupting the West/United States with attacks is one of the goals...
How many attacks, that cost 7,000 pounds sterling, will the West be able to handle when they cost around 300 million pounds sterling?!?
There is a way to solve this, but The West is not yet at the stage that they will actually want to even think about doing let alone talking about it...Suffer we must...
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Monday, September 18, 2006
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