Be Afraid, Be very Afraid Who believes the Boy who cried wolf to many time.
Plot to destroy airport 'fantasy'Source: The Australian/ Agencies
06 jun 07
NEW YORK: The alleged plot to blow up fuel tanks and pipelines at New York's JFK airport had little chance of success, according to safety experts, who have questioned whether the plot ever posed a real threat.
US authorities said they had averted an attack that could have resulted in "unfathomable damage, deaths and destruction", and have charged four alleged Islamic radicals with conspiracy to cause an explosion at the airport.
But experts say it would have been next to impossible to cause an explosion in the jet fuel tanks and pipeline. And the plotters appeared to lack both the explosives and the financial backing to carry out the attack. John Goglia, a former member of the US National Transportation Safety Board, said that had the plot been carried out, it might have sparked a fire but little else, and certainly not the mass carnage authorities described.
"You could definitely reach the tank, definitely start a fire, but to get the kind of explosion they were thinking they were going to get ... this is virtually impossible to do," he said. Similarly, the fuel pipelines around the airport would burn, rather than explode, because they were full of fuel and unable to mix with enough oxygen, he said.
06 jun 07
NEW YORK: The alleged plot to blow up fuel tanks and pipelines at New York's JFK airport had little chance of success, according to safety experts, who have questioned whether the plot ever posed a real threat.
US authorities said they had averted an attack that could have resulted in "unfathomable damage, deaths and destruction", and have charged four alleged Islamic radicals with conspiracy to cause an explosion at the airport.
But experts say it would have been next to impossible to cause an explosion in the jet fuel tanks and pipeline. And the plotters appeared to lack both the explosives and the financial backing to carry out the attack. John Goglia, a former member of the US National Transportation Safety Board, said that had the plot been carried out, it might have sparked a fire but little else, and certainly not the mass carnage authorities described.
"You could definitely reach the tank, definitely start a fire, but to get the kind of explosion they were thinking they were going to get ... this is virtually impossible to do," he said. Similarly, the fuel pipelines around the airport would burn, rather than explode, because they were full of fuel and unable to mix with enough oxygen, he said.
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