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| Britain |
| Airline Bomb Plotters Convicted |
| 2010-07-08 |
| Ibrahim Savant, Arafat Khan and Waheed Zaman were convicted by a jury at Woolwich Crown Court. The three men were among eight tried in connection with an al Qaida-inspired plot to detonate homemade liquid bombs on transatlantic jets. They were cleared by a jury of their role in targeting aeroplanes but put on trial again to face charges of conspiracy to murder. A Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) spokesman said the jury found all three men guilty today. Savant, of Denver Road, Stoke Newington, Khan, of Farnan Avenue, Walthamstow, and Zaman, of Queen's Road, Walthamstow, will be sentenced tomorrow. Abdulla Ahmed Ali, of Walthamstow, Assad Sarwar, of High Wycombe, and Tanvir Hussain, of Leyton, were found guilty of the airline bomb plot last year. The al Qaida-inspired plot led by Ali involved smuggling liquid bombs in drinks bottles on to planes bound for North America. The hydrogen peroxide devices would have been assembled and detonated in mid-air by a team of suicide bombers. Ali singled out seven flights to San Francisco, Toronto, Montreal, Washington, New York and Chicago that departed within two and a half hours of each other. If successful, the explosions could have exceeded the carnage of the September 11 attacks. The arrest of the gang in August 2006 sparked tight restrictions on carrying liquids on to aircraft which initially caused travel chaos. |
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