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July 9, 2010       Share:    

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66734R20100708

Three British Muslims Convicted in Airliner Bomb Plot

(Reuters) Three Britons were convicted on Thursday of plotting to murder hundreds of people in suicide bombings after being recruited by an al-Qaeda-inspired cell bent on blowing up transatlantic airliners bound for North America. Ibrahim Savant, Arafat Waheed Khan and Waheed Zaman recorded martyrdom videos threatening waves of attacks against Britain and the U.S., and worked with the gang that planned to bring down planes with home-made liquid bombs. Prosecutors said the plot could have been on the same scale as the 9/11 attacks. The plot's ringleader, Abdulla Ahmed Ali, identified seven flights to San Francisco, Toronto, Montreal, Washington, New York and Chicago that left London within 2 1/2 hours of each other. Ali was jailed for life last September.

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