Saudi Arabia has arrested two Islamic suicide pilots who were preparing to fly two light aircraft into a packed British Airways (BA) jet, a British Sunday newspaper said, quoting a senior opposition politician. The suspected suicide pilots were arrested in the last few weeks after they were found red-handed with aircraft loaded with explosives near Saudi Arabia’s main airport in the capital Riyadh, The Mail on Sunday said. "My understanding is that they were found on the flight line and that the plan was to fly them into a passenger jet either about to land or take off," said Patrick Mercer, the opposition Conservative spokesman for Homeland Security, according to the newspaper. Mercer claimed, according to the same source, that the Saudi authorities tried to cover up the incident near King Khalid International Airport and withheld information from authorities abroad. Both BA and the Foreign Office, which said it had checked with "relevant agencies," were unable to confirm the arrests. A BA spokesman later said the airline had no knowledge of the incident described in the paper. Mercer was not available to elaborate on his remarks and the British Foreign Office said it was not aware of the incident.
| And the Soddies don't admit to this? It's a chance to show themselves as heroes in the WoT, breaking up a very dangerous plot by the Bad Guys... Guess it happened at a moment when they were negotiating with the Bad Guys and they didn't want to disrupt things. |
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