Britain prevented Sept 11-style terrorist attack

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LONDON (AFP) — Britain foiled an Al-Qaeda plot to fly planes into Heathrow Airport and London's giant Canary Wharf skyscrapers, a British television news channel said, quoting an unnamed "senior authoritative source".

Al-Qaeda intended to train suicide pilots to crash planes into the London landmarks just as it had convinced others to fly into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in the United States on September 11, 2001, ITV News said.

"I am told that the plan for an attack on Canary Wharf also involved terrorists who trained as pilots," said ITV News political editor, Nick Robinson.

"I have not been told how or when it was uncovered or how close they came," he said. "The terrorists were also plotting, it was claimed, to crash planes into Heathrow...