Officials Deny Report on Foiled Terror Plot
Saudi Arabia denied a report in Britain’s Mail on Sunday newspaper that security forces had seized light planes packed with explosives near King Khalid International Airport in the capital, Riyadh, foiling a suicide plot to blow up a Western airliner.
“A Saudi security official confirmed that the story ... was not true,” the official Saudi Press Agency reported.
The paper quoted Patrick Mercer, security policy chief for Britain’s opposition Conservative Party, as saying two pilots apparently intended to crash their planes into a Western jet as it taxied. The pilots were among several people arrested after the planes were discovered in the last few weeks, the paper said.
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