Drizzt
February 17, 2003, 04:58 PM
Sunday Mirror
February 16, 2003, Sunday
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 9
LENGTH: 143 words
HEADLINE: SAM-7 CELL 'LOST'
BYLINE: ALAN RIMMER
HIGHLIGHT:
ALERT: Troops at Heathrow
BODY:
SECURITY services are desperately trying to trace a gang of terrorists armed with shoulder-launched missiles they had tracked across Europe - but lost as they approached Britain.
Members of the al-Qaeda terror cell had been identified by GCHQ, Britain's secret eavesdropping centre, but when they disappeared the Government ordered the unprecedented security blanket around Heathrow. Intelligence experts managed to listen into communications between an al-Qaeda activist in the Balkans and a unit based in London.
They learnt that a cargo of four Sam-7 missiles - capable of shooting down a passenger jet - had been driven on a lorry across the Continent and smuggled through Dover.
The security forces also discovered that the terrorists had obtained a consignment of AK-47 machine guns, which can spray hundreds of rounds per minute.
February 16, 2003, Sunday
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 9
LENGTH: 143 words
HEADLINE: SAM-7 CELL 'LOST'
BYLINE: ALAN RIMMER
HIGHLIGHT:
ALERT: Troops at Heathrow
BODY:
SECURITY services are desperately trying to trace a gang of terrorists armed with shoulder-launched missiles they had tracked across Europe - but lost as they approached Britain.
Members of the al-Qaeda terror cell had been identified by GCHQ, Britain's secret eavesdropping centre, but when they disappeared the Government ordered the unprecedented security blanket around Heathrow. Intelligence experts managed to listen into communications between an al-Qaeda activist in the Balkans and a unit based in London.
They learnt that a cargo of four Sam-7 missiles - capable of shooting down a passenger jet - had been driven on a lorry across the Continent and smuggled through Dover.
The security forces also discovered that the terrorists had obtained a consignment of AK-47 machine guns, which can spray hundreds of rounds per minute.