[AP/Washington Post] Jan M. Olsen - Hammad Khuershid, a Danish citizen of Pakistani origin, and Abdoulghani Tokhi, an Afghan, who were secretly filmed conducting a test blast with triacetone triperoxide, the type of explosive used in the 2005 London transit bombing, were convicted on Tuesday of preparing a terrorist attack. Investigators found handwritten bomb-making manuals in the men's homes that prosecutors said Khuershid had copied at the pro-Taliban Red Mosque in Islamabad. The men said the explosive was to be used for fireworks.
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