BBC NEWS
Three men admit bomb plot charges
Three men accused of plotting to blow up transatlantic planes have admitted
conspiring to cause explosions.
Abdulla Ahmed Ali, Assad Sarwar and Tanvir Hussain also admitted conspiring to
cause a public nuisance by making videos threatening bombings.
Two other defendants, Ibrahim Savant and Umar Islam, also pleaded guilty to the
public nuisance charges.
The Woolwich Crown Court jury has yet to rule on conspiracy to murder charges
which the five and three others deny.
The men deny two charges, which have been amended, of conspiracy to murder
between 1 January and 11 August 2006.
One specifies the attacks would have involved the detonation of improvised
bombs on passenger aircraft.
'Immortality aim'
Prosecutors allege they planned to explode home-made bombs disguised as soft
drinks on passenger jets flying from Heathrow to North American cities.
The men's arrests in August 2006 led to tight restrictions on carrying liquids
on board aircraft.
Peter Wright QC, summing up the prosecution case on Monday, told the court the
eight men had wanted to "achieve immortality and notoriety in equal measure".
Each of the defendants wanted to "murder as many civilian passengers as
possible upon as many civilian aircraft as possible", he said.
They were all "prepared to kill and to do so on a wholly indiscriminate basis,
irrespective of age, belief, sex and to do so without the slightest blink of an
eye", he told the jury.
Mr Ali - the alleged ringleader of the plot - and Mr Sarwar had earlier told
the court they had planned only to make a video highlighting what they
described as injustices against Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon.
This was no propaganda video, no documentary, no exercise or stunt - this
was for real
Peter Wright QC
Their protest over British foreign policy was to include a small explosion at
the Houses of Parliament, in which no-one would be hurt, in order to publicise
the video, they said.
The two men also considered other targets including gas terminals, oil
refineries and airports, Mr Sarwar told the jury.
But Mr Wright described the defendants' explanations as "inherently
improbable", "hollow" and "bogus".
"This was no propaganda video, no documentary, no exercise or stunt - this was
for real," he said.
"Human beings ready, able and willing to commit carnage for the sake of Islam."
He said the men had been "almost ready to go" and had had enough hydrogen
peroxide and other materials to make at least 20 bombs disguised as soft drinks
when they were arrested by police.
"It was intended to be an act of terrorism to not only alter aviation history
but also to strike a blow on behalf of radicalised Islamists the world over,"
he added.
The defendants are: Mr Ali, aka Ahmed Ali Khan, 27, of Walthamstow, London; Mr
Sarwar, 24, of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire; Mr Hussain, 27, of no fixed
address, and Mohammed Gulzar, 26, of Barking, London.
Also charged, are Mr Savant, 27, of Walthamstow, Arafat Waheed Khan, 26, of
Walthamstow, Waheed Zaman, 23, of Walthamstow and Mr Islam, aka Brian Young,
29, of High Wycombe.
The jury is expected to retire to consider the main conspiracy to murder charge
next week.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7505040.stm
Published: 2008/07/14 12:57:44 GMT
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