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U.S. Clams Up on Xmas Airline Bomb ‘Plot’

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American officials, quick to draw attention to seemingly minor terror threats, were strangely tight-lipped about an alleged plan to take down passenger jets.

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The Daily Beast

U.S. officials are curiously mum about an alleged al Qaeda plot to bomb commercial airliners in a “spectacular” attack around the Christmas holidays.

The alleged plan was first reported in the British publication Express,

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