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Politico (25 November 2024)

Laura Kayali, Dirk Banse, Wolfgang Büscher, Ulrich Kraetzer, Uwe Müller and Christian Schweppe

If not for a delay in a connecting flight, the incendiary bomb would likely have burst into flames in the belly of a plane flying high above the European Union. 

Instead, it ignited on the ground in Germany’s Leipzig airport, setting fire to a DHL air freight container. 

Western intelligence officials believe the attack, which took place in July, was a trial run by Russian agents who planned to place similar bombs on flights to the United States.

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