Operation Guava

Operation Guava[a] is the code name for a long-term[b] British Security Service (MI5) operation.[2] The operation tracked a terrorist cell, which planned "a significant terrorist plot."[3] The Operation Guava plotters used the Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula magazine Inspire as an instruction manual for the bomb they planned to leave in a toilet stall at the London Stock Exchange.[c][d] The police code name for the investigation was Operation Norbury.[6]

  1. ^ a b Pantucci, Raffaello (7 February 2012). "The perils of leaderless jihad". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 1 December 2019.
  2. ^ Paul Hannon; Stephen Fidler (30 November 2019). "Attack by Convicted Terrorist Prompts U.K. to Review Sentencing". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 1 December 2019. Mr. Khan was one of nine people who were imprisoned after pleading guilty to being part of a group that was plotting in 2010 to plant a pipe bomb in a toilet in the London Stock Exchange. The group, which had been tracked by Britain's internal security service MI5 in an operation code-named Guava
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  4. ^ Pantucci, Raffaello (2015). "chapter 7". 'We Love Death as You Love Life': Britain's Suburban Terrorists. Oxford University Press. pp. 280–281. ISBN 978-1849041652. Retrieved 1 December 2019.
  5. ^ Simon Israel (27 December 2010). "Christmas 'terror plot' targeted London landmarks". Channel 4. Archived from the original on 4 October 2019. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
  6. ^ "Stock Exchange plotters: Fantasists or a threat?". BBC News. 9 February 2012. Retrieved 25 August 2023.


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