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IDF cyber warriors thwart major aviation terror attack
2018-02-21
[Jpost] Soldiers in the IDF’s Unit 8200 thwarted a major Islamic State terror attack this past summer which aimed to bring down a civilian airliner headed from the Australian city of Sydney to Abu Dhabi, the army has revealed.

In cooperation with Israel’s intelligence community, soldiers provided exclusive intelligence that they had gathered on an attack that was being planned. This information led to the arrest of the suspects, even as they were in a very advanced stage in executing their terror plot, the army said.
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The ISIS-inspired attack against an Etihad Airways flight originating in the Australian city of Sydney to Abu Dhabi was thwarted by Australian officials in July. Four men were arrested in Sydney suburbs for planning two separate attacks. One of the attacks involved planting an improvised explosive device on an unwitting “mule,” who would carry the device on board the plane where it would be detonated in the air.

Local press at the time quoted Australian police as stating that one suspect planned to plant military-grade explosives that had been sent by a senior ISIS operative through international air cargo to the suspects in Australia.

For that plot, the New South Wales Joint Counter Terrorism Team charged 49-year-old Khaled Mahmoud Khayat and 32-year-old Mahmoud Khayat with two counts each of acts in preparation for a terrorist act.
Posted by:g(r)omgoru

#4  I added a few paragraphs from the article, giving us names to search in the Rantburg archives. I’d forgotten this particular little excitement, which was a doozie — click on “Mahmoud Khayat“ in the article to see.
Posted by: trailing wife   2018-02-21 18:09  

#3  I'm getting the impression that the FBI leadership is mostly Moslem. Which would explain a lot.
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance   2018-02-21 15:58  

#2  My thoughts exactly SP. Example, the Texas "draw moohamhead contest" (Curtis Culwell Center attack) muslim terrorist shooting.

Days before an ISIS sympathizer attacked a cartoon contest in Garland, Texas, he received a text from an undercover FBI agent.

“Tear up Texas,” the FBI agent messaged Elton Simpson (convert?) days before he opened fire at the Draw Muhammad event, according to an affidavit filed in federal court Thursday.

“U know what happened in Paris,” Simpson responded. “So that goes without saying… No need to be direct.” If you’re wondering what happened to the FBI’s undercover agent, he fled the scene but was stopped at gunpoint by Garland police.

Never investigated and who was the agent and his supervisor? Well guess what Burgs, his name is Eric Jackson. FBI Director James B. Comey (leader of agency's sedation) has named Eric Jackson as the special agent in charge of the Dallas Division.

Figures, he's a Comey teat feeder.

And there was, is no investigation of the FBI's direct involvement in this, an Islamic terrorist attack conservative anti-jihad shooting.

Turns out that Minneapolis FBI head, Richard Thornton (Somaliland circus narrator) was another Comey boy. You just can't make this shit up...
Posted by: Woodrow   2018-02-21 14:00  

#1  The FBI would have kept them under surveillance until the plane crashed and then quietly filed away the reports.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2018-02-21 12:46  

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