One can only presume that the previously unpublished revelation that London was a simultaneous target of the 9/11 attacks. At the planning stages of the New York and Washington attacks, Al Qaeda realized that Britain would most likely support any punitive American action against the organization and its Afgan hosts, the Taliban , and so planned a simultaneous attempt to destroy the British Houses of Parliament by crashing into it a British Airways jumbo jet hijacked from Heathrow airport. Muhammad Afroz, an Indian suicide pilot , trained in Melbourne, Australia and Britain was subsequently arrested in Mumbai, India. On the basis of interrogation of suspected Indian agents , Indian intelligence came to believe that Al Qaeda had infiltrated a suicide team into Britain to attack the Houses of Parliament.
Indeed Afroz’s cell was one of three highly trained Al Qaeda teams - the other two being assigned to India and Australia. In addition to striking Westminster in an airborne attack , they also had plans to attack the Tower Bridge on the river Thames, but the latter target was dropped in early September. The suicide team was to hijack a British Airways jet bound from London to Mumbai on September 9 , 2001 ( the original dates scheduled for the Washington and New York attacks), but in an encrypted message received at the last moment from their Al Qaeda operational commander in America, the operation was postponed to September 11 , 2001.
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