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9/11-type attack bids foiled

LONDON: Security services in Britain have thwarted plans for September 11-style attacks by terrorists with Al-Qaeda links on high-profile targets here, including the Heathrow airport, media reports said on Tuesday. The plan was to strike skyscrapers in Canary Wharf, a financial district of London, as well as the airport, the reports quoted "authoritative sources" as saying. However, the reports were silent on when or where the plots were uncovered. "Training programmes for suicide pilots who planned a spectacular attack on the financial centre were disrupted," the Daily Mail said. ITV television news said plans to crash aircraft into the high-profile targets were among four or five attacks planned. Downing Street, the Home Office and the Metropolitan Police declined to comment on the reports. The British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, faced accusations of alarmism 18 months ago when armoured vehicles surrounded the Heathrow airport. But the Government insisted that the dramatic action came in response to specific intelligence.

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