From: Mike N. 

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article1496831.ece

 SCOTLAND YARD has uncovered evidence that Al-Qaeda has been plotting to
bring down the internet in Britain, causing chaos to business and the
London Stock Exchange.

In a series of raids, detectives have recovered computer files revealing
that terrorist suspects had targeted a high-security internet “hub” in
London.

The facility, in Docklands, houses the channel through which almost every
bit of information on the internet passes in or out of Britain.

The suspects, who were arrested, had targeted the headquarters of Telehouse
Europe, which houses Europe’s biggest “web hotel”, containing dozens of
“servers” , the boxes which contain the information that makes up the web.

Security experts say the plot against Britain’s internet “hub” reflects the
constantly changing threat from Al-Qaeda and related Islamic extremist
groups.

Last year MI5 uncovered intelligence which suggested that Islamic terrorist
suspects had carried out reconnaissance of the huge Bacton complex of gas
terminals on the Norfolk coast. The threat led to the deployment of armed
guards around the plant.

A senior Whitehall security official said the internet plotters appeared to
be planning to infiltrate the “hub”, possibly to blow it up from the
inside, according to evidence on a computer hard drive seized in raids on
the homes of terror suspects in southern England last year.

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