Alex Watts
Sky News Online
29 Sep 2010
Intelligence agencies have intercepted a terror plot to launch Mumbai-style attacks on Britain and other European countries, according to Sky News sources.
Sky’s foreign affairs editor Tim Marshall said militants based in Pakistan were planning simultaneous strikes on London and major cities in France and Germany.
He said the plan was in the advanced but not imminent stage and the plotters had been tracked by spy agencies “for some time”.
Intelligence sources told Sky the planned attacks would have been similar to the commando-style raids carried out in Mumbai.
Then, Pakistan-based Islamist group Lashkar e Taiba killed 166 people in a series of gun and grenade attacks in the Indian city.
Marshall said the European plot had been “severely disrupted” following intelligence sharing between Britain, France, Germany and the US.
It is not known whether the attackers are already in Europe.
The article, with video, continues at Sky News Online.
H/T Drudge Report
Update: More from Durotrigan here.
