{"id":22064,"date":"2011-02-03T10:28:47","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T14:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22064"},"modified":"2011-02-03T10:28:47","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T14:28:47","slug":"british-airways-employee-plotted-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22064","title":{"rendered":"British Airways employee plotted terror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rajib Karim plotted with US-born radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki to disrupt and destroy flights from Heathrow Airport. Anwar al-Awlaki is also said to be connected to the Nidal Hasan murders at Fort Hood, TX and the Chicago underwear bomber according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1352552\/Islamic-extremist-Rajib-Karim-BA-job-terror-plot-bomb-flight-US.html\">Daily Mail<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Desperate for martyrdom, the Bangladesh-born fanatic volunteered to train as cabin crew in the hope of blowing up aircraft, it was alleged.<\/p>\n<p>The software engineer is also said to have planned to hijack BA computer systems to ground flights, causing chaos for millions of passengers.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, like the airlines need help causing chaos for passengers.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Karim had already begun to build a terror cell in Britain, recruiting a baggage handler from Heathrow Airport and a security guard, it was claimed.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Blotter\/british-airways-employee-plot-al-qaeda-leader-prosecution\/story?id=12822418&#038;page=1\">From ABC<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Karim pleaded guilty to three terror-related charges, but denied others, including the accusation he plotted to bring down any flights, Laidlaw told the court. Karim, who worked at a call center in Newcastle, England, applied for cabin crew training but was told he didn&#8217;t have enough experience, prosecutors said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Foiled by his ego.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Old Trooper for the ABC link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajib Karim plotted with US-born radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki to disrupt and destroy flights from Heathrow &hellip; <a title=\"British Airways employee plotted terror\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22064\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">British Airways employee plotted terror<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}