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| British 'bomb plot' accused admits planning airport explosion |
| 2008-06-04 |
| The ringleader of a gang accused of plotting to blow up transatlantic jets with liquid explosives admitted Tuesday planning an explosion at Heathrow airport. Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 27, said Monday he that he had wanted to set off a device in the Houses of Parliament in central London to attract attention to an online documentary attacking British and US foreign policy. At top-security Woolwich Crown Court, he said the plan to strike at Westminster was later dropped in favour of the airport, one of the busiest in the world, because "security was not so tight." He denied his group intended to board aircraft, saying the target was the terminal three building, which is used by several US carriers. "When we thought about the airport, it was the terminal and more specific American offices," he told the court on the second day of defence evidence. We were trying to create a disturbance, not kill anyone. We did not even think about boarding a plane, our aim was to set off a device at a terminal, cause a disturbance then release our video." Ali, also known as Ahmed Ali Khan, is on trial alongside seven other men. They all deny plotting to detonate home-made liquid bombs on board flights bound for north America in mid-2006. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 These pirates should have been long since hanged and their families deported. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2008-06-04 09:24 |