?Liquid Bomb Plot? special is gripping investigation of terrorism

Peroxide and Tang helped change the rules at the nation?s airports ? and nearly led to a disaster comparable to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

?The Liquid Bomb Plot,? a documentary with dramatic reconstructions that airs at 9 p.m. Sunday on National Geographic Channel, chronicles the investigation of a 2006 plan to blow up a host of airplanes traveling from London to the United States.

Had the plot been successful, 19 conspirators ? the same number as the Sept. 11 terrorists ? would have taken down seven planes over the Atlantic, killing thousands. Instead, the plot was foiled and close to a dozen men were convicted of terrorism-related offenses. But doing so involved what England?s Telegraph newspaper called ?one of the most complex and costliest criminal investigations since the Second World War.? Indeed, even shadowing one conspirator could involve as many as a dozen British agents.

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