Malaysia Airline MH370: 9/11-style terror allegations resurface in case of lost plane
Possible plot investigated after Al-Qaeda supergrass told court that four or
five Malaysian men planned a passenger airliner hijack
Left: Saajid Muhammad Badat. Right: A
woman writes on a board of messages and well-wishes dedicated to people
involved with the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner MH370 Photo: PA/AP
woman writes on a board of messages and well-wishes dedicated to people
involved with the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner MH370 Photo: PA/AP
8:54PM GMT 15 Mar 2014
Evidence of a plot by Malaysian Islamists to hijack a passenger jet in a
9/11-style attack is being investigated in connection with the disappearance
of Flight MH370
9/11-style attack is being investigated in connection with the disappearance
of Flight MH370
An al-Qaeda supergrass told a court last week that four to five Malaysian men
had been planning to take control of a plane, using a bomb hidden in a shoe
to blow open the cockpit door.
Security experts said the evidence from a convicted British terrorist was
“credible”. The supergrass said that he had met the Malaysian
jihadists – one of whom was a pilot – in Afghanistan and given them a shoe
bomb to use to take control of an aircraft.
A British security source said: “These spectaculars take a long time in the
planning.”
The possibility of such a plot, hatched by the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks
on the Twin Towers in New York, was bolstered by an admission by Najib
Razak, Malaysia’s prime minister, that the Boeing 777’s communications
systems had been deliberately switched off “by someone on the plane”.
