Western security officials reportedly said they believe Russia is plotting to plant explosives aboard either commercial or passenger airplanes bound for the United States and Canada.
Two incendiary devices were shipped using the German logistics company DHL and ignited at DHL logistics hubs in Leipzig, Germany, and in Birmingham, England, in July, sparking a multinational investigation, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Security officials and sources familiar with the investigation told the Journal that intelligence agencies in Europe determined the explosions were caused by electric massagers implanted with a magnesium-based flammable substance.
Those officials say the electric massagers, sent to the United Kingdom from Lithuania, were intended as a “test run” of a wider Russian sabotage plot meant to evaluate how best to get explosives on board aircraft headed to North America.
Poland’s National Prosecutor’s Office announced that four suspects have been arrested in connection to the fires at the DHL hubs and are charged with “sabotage or terrorist operations on behalf of a foreign intelligence agency,” the Journal reported. […]
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