According to the Daily Mirror, the suspected al-Qaeda cell had intended to use a small plane to bomb bars packed with people watching the Olympics on outdoor screens. They then planned to follow that up with a Mumbai-style machine-gun rampage on foot, the newspaper said.
Security officials insisted yesterday that there was no credible evidence to suggest the alleged terrorists arrested in Spain last week were targeting Gibraltar.
The British and English-language press has focused on Gibraltar as the possible target, while the list of potential sites in the Spanish press has ranged from the Rock to a shopping centre in Algeciras, the US base at Rota and tourist resorts on the Mediterranean coast.
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