LONDON (Reuters) - Britain named 19 people on Friday suspected of an Islamist plot to blow up transatlantic airliners and ordered their assets frozen, a day after police said they had foiled "murder on an unimaginable scale".
U.S. officials said suspected suicide bombers were just days from simultaneous attacks on up to 10 aircraft flying from Britain to the United States, raising the spectre of strikes to rival the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
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