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| − | '''Operation Crevice''' was the codename given to the biggest [[Metropolitan Police]] anti-terrorist operation ever conducted in the United Kingdom | + | '''Operation Crevice''' was the codename given to the biggest [[Metropolitan Police]] anti-terrorist operation ever conducted in the United Kingdom and was conducted on the 30 March 2004. It is sometimes referred to as '''the fertiliser plot''' or the '''the fertiliser bomb plot.'''The plot, understood to be an [[Al-Qaeda]] operation that was ordered by 'senior al-Qaeda figures in Pakistan and Afghanistan,'<ref name="BBC 1">[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6195914.stm Five get life over UK bomb plot], ''BBC News'', 30 April 2007, accessed 30.08.10</ref> aimed to target a series of sites in the United Kingdom with ammonium nitrate bombs. The ringleader and commander of the plot was [[Omar Khyam]]. |
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Operation Crevice was the codename given to the biggest Metropolitan Police anti-terrorist operation ever conducted in the United Kingdom and was conducted on the 30 March 2004. It is sometimes referred to as the fertiliser plot or the the fertiliser bomb plot.The plot, understood to be an Al-Qaeda operation that was ordered by 'senior al-Qaeda figures in Pakistan and Afghanistan,'[1] aimed to target a series of sites in the United Kingdom with ammonium nitrate bombs. The ringleader and commander of the plot was Omar Khyam.
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- ↑ Five get life over UK bomb plot, BBC News, 30 April 2007, accessed 30.08.10
