Details released on how Lebanon police intelligence helped prevent air disaster in July – PB/TK
Lebanon Foiled ISIS Barbie Doll Bomb Plot on Flight From Australia to Abu Dhabi – By Jack Moore / Aug 21 2017
Lebanese intelligence helped foil a plot by the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) to bring down an airliner with bombs hidden inside a large Barbie doll and a meat grinder, the country’s interior minister said Monday.
Nouhad Machnouk told reporters that Lebanese police intelligence stopped the explosive device plot on the Emirati flight from Sydney to Abu Dhabi. He said the main suspect, Amer Khayyat, tried to take two explosive devices onto the plane in the event that one did not detonate successfully.
Lebanese authorities arrested Khayyat when he landed in the country from Australia in mid-July. He had planned to blow up the plane while mid-air twenty minutes after take-off.
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