3 UK men jailed in terrorist bomb plot
2013-02-21 19:02
London - Three young British Muslims have been convicted
of plotting terrorist bomb attacks that prosecutors said were intended to be
bigger than the 2005 London transit bombings.
A London jury found Irfan Khalid, 27, Irfan Naseer, 31,
and Ashik Ali, 27, of being central figures in the foiled plot to explode
knapsack bombs.
Prosecutors said the men, fired up by the sermons of a US-born
al-Qaeda preacher, hoped to cause carnage on a mass scale.
Their plot was undone by mishaps with money and
logistics, and ended in a police counter-terrorism swoop in 2011.
Several other suspects have pleaded guilty to offenses
related to the plot.
In July 2005, suicide bombers killed 52 commuters on
London's subway and bus network.
- AP
