Resurgent Al-(CIA)Qaeda plan new series of spectacular attacks against airliners and airports including drone strikes and suicide passengers, says Britain’s security minister
Security Minister Ben Wallace said Al-Qaeda are planning attacks on airports
He also discussed ‘insider threat’ of terrorists working undercover in airports
Wallace likened Isis to the latest ‘boyband’ but said Al-Qaeda were dormant
By LEIGH MCMANUS
DAILYMAIL.COM
23 December 2018
The terrorist group behind the world trade centre attacks in New York in 2001 are plotting a series of deadly new attacks that are ‘keeping ministers awake at night’.
Security Minister Ben Wallace said that Al-Qaeda are planning the attacks on airports and airliners, and even plan to use explosive-packed drones to take down targets in a bid to become the world’s most feared terrorist organisation once more.
Wallace had met with airport officials a week ago to discuss the matter just days before a rogue drone brought Gatwick Airport to a standstill.
Speaking to the Sunday Times, Wallace also discussed the ‘insider threat’ of terrorists working undercover in our airports.
‘The aviation threat is real. Aviation is still a blue riband event for these terrorists. Al-Qaeda are resurgent. They have reorganised. They are pushing more and more plots towards Europe and have become familiar with new methods and still aspire to aviation attacks,’ he said.
The Minister added that a joint Home Office and Department for Transport programme had pumped £25m into researching the defence of such threats.
The decline of Isis will also open up avenues for Osama bin Laden’s brainchild to stake a claim at being the world’s main terrorist organisation.
Wallace likened Isis to the latest ‘boyband’ but added that the ‘dormant’ Al Qaeda were always plotting in the background, and that a large aviation attack would be its calling card.
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