Three admit liquid bomb plot charges
14.07.08
Three men accused of plotting a series of terrorist attacks on transatlantic jets have pleaded guilty to conspiring to cause explosions. Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 27, Assad Sarwar, 28, and Tanvir Hussain, 27, also pleaded guilty to conspiring to cause a public nuisance by publishing videos threatening suicide bomb attacks. Two of their co-defendants, Ibrahim Savant, 27, and Umar Islam, 30, also admitted conspiring to cause a public nuisance.
The guilty pleas came as their trial at Woolwich Crown Court was drawing to a close. The jury must still decide if the five men and three other defendants are guilty of conspiring to murder thousands of people by smuggling home-made liquid bombs onto passenger jets. All eight men deny two charges of conspiracy to murder between January 1 and August 11, 2006.
One of the charges specifies that the attacks would involve the detonation of improvised bombs on passenger aircraft. Prosecutors claim the eight men plotted to blow up passenger jets flying from Heathrow to major cities in North America. They planned to use powerful hydrogen peroxide liquid bombs disguised as soft drinks to bypass airport security, jurors were told. The devices would be assembled by injecting the chemicals into plastic soft drinks bottles and detonated using a battery from a camera flash, it was claimed.
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