New Information on U.K. Airline Plot

By Paul Cruickshank

Please tune in tonight at 10pm to Dateline NBC with Chris Hansen for a one hour documentary, which I co-produced with Richard Greenberg, that sheds new light on the Al Qaeda connection in the 2006 Airline Plot.

Editor's Note: "Inside the terror plot that 'rivaled 9/11'" broadcast tonight on NBC. The article includes photos of the evidence and details on each defendant. An excerpt:

"Prosecutors did not produce any evidence explicitly linking the plot to al-Qaida, but privately, British officials have suggested that al Qaida’s number three at the time, Abu Ubaidah al Masri, authorized the alleged airline plot. Al Masri reportedly died last year of natural causes. A senior Bush administration official and two U.S. intelligence officials told Dateline that intelligence shows that some of the men convicted in this case - though the officials did not identify them by name - traveled to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan, widely believed to be home to al-Qaida’s leaders, where they received explosives training 'from al-Qaida specialists.'"

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