Big Ben 'was September 11 target' Posted by Scott Manning on June 12, 2002 | Comments (0)

Suicide hijackers targeted Big Ben on September 11 but were thwarted after flights out of London were grounded following the US attacks, it was claimed today.A group of al Qaida operatives were at Heathrow Airport waiting to take over a jet and slam it into the Houses of Parliament when British air space was closed, according to author Rohan Gunaratna.

The plan was intended to show the international reach of al Qaida, he said.“This team assembled at Heathrow Airport on 9/11 to conduct an airborne suicide attack on the Houses of Parliament,” Mr Gunaratna, author of Inside al Qaida, told CBS News in the US.Full Story...