Chilling new details over last years Terrorist attack in London

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this is from the Britain's Sunday Times newspaper:
original source:http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2393798.html
My source:http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,20547035-5006301,00.html

THE men who bombed London's public transport system last year plotted to kill the Australian and English cricket teams.

They planned to spray nerve gas into changerooms in the Ashes series, a friend of the terrorists claims.

Al-Qaida commanders initially ordered the suicide bombers to get jobs at the Edgbaston cricket ground in Birmingham and attack the teams in the second Test, a source told.

The men had been instructed to let off sarin gas, a highly toxic nerve agent regarded as one of the world's most dangerous chemical weapons, near the players of both sides. One of them, cricket fan Shehzad Tanweer, however, objected to the Ashes plot and, instead, the terror cell went ahead with the July 7 tube and bus bombings in London that claimed 52 lives and injured more than 700 people.

Play in the second Test at Edgbaston began as scheduled on August 4 and England went on to win by two runs. Bombers Mohammed Sadique Khan, 30, and Tanweer, 22, are believed to have received the initial instructions to assassinate the players while attending an al-Qaida training camp in northern Kashmir in December, 2004.
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pretty scary guys :(
 
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Does anyone read anything here?

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No, and for the record it wasnt me who deleted it, but If I had seen it I would have. It is not the staff's job to correct posts because people dont read the rules.
 
I want to know how they would've got the Sarin in, and also don't international cricket grounds do severe personnel checks before hiring someone, especially since afer 9/11?
 
Just think about it...

Household names like Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath, Ricky Ponting, Adam Gilchrist, Matthew Hayden, Justin Langer... all dead. All apart of one of the greatest teams ever assembled.

Players who were just beginning to start their mark on the game... Kevin Pietersen & Andrew Flintoff... dead.

If this so called plot went ahead it could've ruined cricket forever.
 
wfdu_ben91 said:
Just think about it...

Household names like Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath, Ricky Ponting, Adam Gilchrist, Matthew Hayden, Justin Langer... all dead. All apart of one of the greatest teams ever assembled.

Players who were just beginning to start their mark on the game... Kevin Pietersen & Andrew Flintoff... dead.

If this so called plot went ahead it could've ruined cricket forever.
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The only good thing about it, would be seeing new youth players getting an early promotion, but it would be so sad to see all those familiar faces gone.

As for the current Australia side being one of the greatest teams ever assembled, I have to disagree on that one... ;) ...I think there have been better Aussie sides ;)
 
also, there is a lesson to be learnt for teams which abandon their tours because they do not feel safe due to terror threats (like th SA team recently)
Terrorist attacks could occur anywhere right from London to Mumbai . No place is absolutely safe from it .
 
embi said:
The only good thing about it, would be seeing new youth players getting an early promotion, but it would be so sad to see all those familiar faces gone.

As for the current Australia side being one of the greatest teams ever assembled, I have to disagree on that one... ;) ...I think there have been better Aussie sides ;)
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That's why I said one of the best Aussie sides assembled. Though, it was stronger replacing Clarke & Katich with the two Waugh brothers. Still all of the names I listed are throughly up there with some of the greats of all time.

I don't think Youth would've been a problem. It's the fact that most cricketers probably wouldn't feel safe enough going to tour any country at all.
 
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