Recent reports from Western security officials suggest that Russia may be planning to plant explosives on commercial or passenger airplanes bound for the United States and Canada. This alarming revelation comes after two incendiary devices were shipped via DHL, a German logistics company, and detonated at DHL logistics hubs in Leipzig, Germany, and Birmingham, England, in July.
According to sources familiar with the investigation, intelligence agencies in Europe have determined that the explosions were caused by electric massagers containing a magnesium-based flammable substance. These electric massagers, sent from Lithuania to the United Kingdom, were believed to be a 'test run' for a broader Russian sabotage plot aimed at assessing the feasibility of smuggling explosives onto aircraft bound for North America.
