U.K.: Plot to bomb U.S. bound planes foiled

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Britain bans hand luggage fearing use of liquid explosives; 21 arrested

LONDON - British authorities said Thursday they had thwarted a terrorist plot to simultaneously blow up several aircraft heading to the U.S. using explosives smuggled in hand luggage, averting what police described as “mass murder on an unimaginable scale.†Meantime, a U.S. counterterrorism official called the plot "the real deal."

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