Little Green Footballs Reports: Britain Foiled 9/11-Style Attack

Britain Foiled 9/11-Style Attack

British security services have foiled an Al-Qaeda plot to fly planes into targets in London in a September 11-style attack, Britain’s independent ITV News network reported.

“This is the story of what could have been a nightmare averted,” said ITV’s political editor Nick Robinson. “A story not of failure, but of success.”

“That, at least, is what I am told by a senior authoritative source who says that the security services managed to avert a plot to fly planes into Canary Wharf here, and also into Heathrow Airport,” he said.

awaiting further confirmation, and expecting the media to gloss over this story. It is already believed that Britain prevented several other attacks, though those were mostly bombings or uses of toxic gasses.
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It will be interesting to see how this plays out, if at all. A popularization of this story, mixed with the clashes in the Netherlands, could spread anti-Muslim sentiment farther through Europe, and may spread Dutch-like reactions.