The failed airplane bombing over Detroit on Christmas Day may not have been the only holiday attack that extremists plotted, with intelligence from overseas indicating three weeks earlier that a plot targeting New York City on the same day may have been in the works.

by: Mike Levine at FOXNews.com

The failed bombing attempt over Detroit on Christmas Day may not have been the only attack that extremists planned for the 2009 holiday, with intelligence from overseas three weeks earlier indicating that a plot targeting New York City on the same day may have been in the works, according to an FBI report obtained by Fox News.

“The final target of the attack was not known, but extremist members had allegedly discussed restaurants and night clubs located in New York City,” the FBI’s assistant legal attache in London wrote in a threat report dated Dec. 4, 2009. “The extremists allegedly discussed conducting the attack on 25 December, to coincide with the Christmas holiday.”

The report, sent to U.S. and British counterterrorism officials, warned that “extremists allegedly planned to conduct a test run” that evening, hiding components for an improvised explosive device in a shipment of khat, a plant often chewed like tobacco that has become a tradition for many in East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.

“The extremists allegedly planned to smuggle unknown components of an unspecified explosive device onto a cargo flight departing … Nairobi, Kenya on 4 December with a final destination of London, England,” said the report, which did not identify the extremists or disclose the source of the information. “The group allegedly did not intend to detonate an explosive device on an aircraft.”

In England, a “Caucasian British Muslim … would [allegedly] facilitate the transfer of the components to [a] flight bound for NYC,” according to the report.

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