Incendiary device plot: Russia's 'rehearsals' for attacks on transatlantic flights

Western security officials believe a series of incendiary devices that started fires in British and German warehouses over the summer were “dress rehearsals” for a potential Russian attack on transatlantic flights.

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported that devices – disguised as electric massage machines from Lithuania, containing a highly flammable “magnesium-based substance” – that ignited at DHL logistics hubs in Leipzig and Birmingham in July were part of a “covert Russian operation” that ultimately aimed to start fires aboard cargo or passenger aircraft flying to the US and Canada.