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AN FBI video has revealed in chilling detail how a British terrorist planned to blow a passenger jet out of the sky. The footage — obtained by the News of the World from security sources — show the shoe-bomb blast tearing a hole through the metal fuselage as if it were tin foil. It proves that if the attack by Brit Richard Reid on American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami in 2001 had succeeded, all 197 on board would have died.
The video of the FBI reconstruction of his device was handed to us following the end of the year-long Operation Crevice fertiliser bomb trial. Five men were jailed for a total of 95 years for their part in a plot to blitz major targets. They included the Bluewater shopping centre and Ministry of Sound nightclub.
The film was shot at the US Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia. It was supplied to us to prove just how deadly and effective even the smallest of explosive devices developed by al-Qaeda are. The shoe-bomb was constructed from exactly the same ingredients and to the same dimensions as the one Reid possessed. Once detonated, the video shows the jet exploding from every angle as the shoe — with just ounces of PETN, a military explosive and TATP — triacetone triperoxide — blows a hole in the fuselage. The blast rips the plane in half, its tail snaps off and sheets of reinforced metal from the outside of the plane disintegrate. This is what Reid's bomb would have done to a plane full of passengers flying at 30,000ft, if the detonator had not been faulty. |