Airline bomb plot

There are many stories on the airline bomb plot, so the focus here is on the IT elements, including coverage of the videos, and the use of email. More is no doubt to follow:

Guardian, Airline bomb plotters case threatened by US fears, 8 Sep 09, "In his suicide video Ali says that warnings from the al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden to the west to leave Muslims alone had been ignored. The themes in his rhetoric chimed with those from other al-Qaida videos, notably Bin Laden's "foreign lands" speech, and also the video suicide note left by the 7 July bomber Mohammed Siddique Khan."

BBC News, Airline plot: Al-Qaeda connection, 8 Sep 09

BBC News, Three men guilty of bomb plot, 8 Sep 09

Telegraph, Airline bomb plot: investigation 'one of biggest since WW2', 8 Sep 09 "During Operation Overt, as the investigation was codenamed, the security services had listened to bugged conversations in which the suspects discussed how to smuggle bomb components on board aircraft, taking “babies” with them to allay suspicion and recruiting 19 bombers to emulate the 9/11 “martyrs”.

"They were also overheard making suicide videos in which they promised death would “rain” from the skies and used coded emails to organize the purchase of bomb ingredients, in which one key component, hydrogen peroxide, was referred to as “aftershave”."

Independent, Police watched the plot unfold, then pounced, 8 Sep 09, " ... what looked like email trivia was one of dozens of coded updates sent by Sarwar, a restaurant delivery driver and the quartermaster of the liquid bombs plot, to the overseas jihadist masterminds of the conspiracy to cause carnage on an "unprecedented scale" in the skies above North America and the mid-Atlantic."