Terrorist Attack Foiled By the Brits

It seems like this one was a pretty close run affair for the most part.

The terrorist attack foiled by British authorities on Thursday was
aimed at blowing up as many as 10 airplanes on trans-Atlantic flights, and
plotters had hoped to stage a dry run within two days, U.S. intelligence
officials said.

The actual attack would have followed within days.

So we would have had 10 planes blasted out of the sky on or about 7/14-1/15. Talk about coming in at the wire. And what they planned to do is pretty devious as well:

One official said the suicide attackers planned to use a peroxide-based
solution that could ignite when sparked by a camera flash or another electronic
device.

So what they seemed like they were going to do is use hydrogen peroxide inside of a water or soda bottle. Then maybe use a diode or a battery or something to ignite the bottle and the blast would violently depressurize the cabin. It looks like they were going to use about 20 people too so that would be two blasts per plane somewhere over the Atlantic. Now that is a scary thought. I would hate to be Arab looking and flying in the next few weeks. They will be scrutinized every time they reach into a carry-on bag.