{"id":132548,"date":"2024-11-05T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=132548"},"modified":"2024-11-05T18:29:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T23:29:11","slug":"wsj-russia-suspected-of-plotting-to-send-incendiary-devices-on-u-s-bound-planes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=132548","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ) Russia Suspected of Plotting to Send Incendiary Devices on U.S.-Bound Planes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Western security officials say they believe that two incendiary devices, shipped via DHL, were part of a covert Russian operation that ultimately aimed to start fires aboard cargo or passenger aircraft flying to the U.S. and Canada, as Moscow steps up a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/europe\/europe-sees-signs-of-russian-sabotage-but-hesitates-to-blame-kremlin-72598d4b?mod=article_inline\">sabotage campaign<\/a>&nbsp;against Washington and its allies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The devices ignited at DHL logistics hubs in July, one in Leipzig, Germany, and another in Birmingham, England. The explosions set off a multinational race to find the culprits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now investigators and spy agencies in Europe have figured out how the devices\u2014electric massagers implanted with a magnesium-based flammable substance\u2014were made and concluded that they were part of a wider Russian plot, according to security officials and people familiar with the probe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Security officials say the electric massagers, sent to the U.K. from Lithuania, appear to have been a test run to figure out how to get such incendiary devices aboard planes bound for North America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/russia-plot-us-planes-incendiary-devices-de3b8c0a\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Exclusive | Russia Suspected of Plotting to Send Incendiary Devices on U.S.-Bound Planes &#8211; WSJ <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cNY7wdokRm\">https:\/\/t.co\/cNY7wdokRm<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Michael McFaul (@McFaul) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/McFaul\/status\/1853838403089149981?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 5, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western security officials say they believe that two incendiary devices, shipped via DHL, were part of a covert Russian operation that ultimately aimed to start fires aboard cargo or passenger aircraft flying to the U.S. and Canada, as Moscow steps<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=132548\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,144,479,148,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-foreign-relations","category-russia","category-terrorism","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132548"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132552,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132548\/revisions\/132552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}