Not sure if this has made it to NSC yet...
A TERRORIST plot to attack Britain was foiled after the RAF heard commercial pilots discussing targets on their radios.
The jihadist attacks were being planned in the week after the Paris massacre, but the two foreign pilots, one of whom was flying for an airline on an intelligence service watchlist, were intercepted talking about the plot.
Although they used coded messages from the cockpits of their passenger jets, the Arabic transcripts were passed to GCHQ where spies established they were talking about attacks on London, Bath, Brighton and Ipswich.
More: http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/63...terror-plot-four-British-cities-pop-song-code
A TERRORIST plot to attack Britain was foiled after the RAF heard commercial pilots discussing targets on their radios.
The jihadist attacks were being planned in the week after the Paris massacre, but the two foreign pilots, one of whom was flying for an airline on an intelligence service watchlist, were intercepted talking about the plot.
Although they used coded messages from the cockpits of their passenger jets, the Arabic transcripts were passed to GCHQ where spies established they were talking about attacks on London, Bath, Brighton and Ipswich.
More: http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/63...terror-plot-four-British-cities-pop-song-code