{"id":20732,"date":"2010-07-08T23:35:29","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T06:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/?p=20732"},"modified":"2010-07-12T20:40:14","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T03:40:14","slug":"norway-bomb-arrests-linked-to-us-british-terror-plots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/norway-bomb-arrests-linked-to-us-british-terror-plots\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway Bomb Arrests Linked to US, British Terror Plots"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Three suspected al-Qaida members were arrested Thursday in a Norwegian bomb plot linked to the same terrorist planners behind thwarted schemes to blow up New York’s subway and a British shopping mall.<\/p>\n

The alleged Norwegian plot, underscoring changing al-Qaida tactics in the decade since the 9\/11 attacks, was said to involve powerful peroxide bombs similar to ones aimed for detonation in New York and Manchester, England.<\/p>\n

All three plans were organized by Saleh al-Somali, al-Qaida’s former chief of external operations, who had been in charge of plotting attacks worldwide, Norwegian and U.S. officials believe. Al-Somali was killed in a CIA drone airstrike last year, but officials say the three plots had already been set in motion by the time of his death.<\/p>\n

Thursday’s arrests suggested how decentralized and nimble al-Qaida has become since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States. The terror group has recently focused on smaller-level attacks that don’t require the intricate planning that it took to hijack airplanes and fly them into buildings in New York and Washington.<\/p>\n

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