A combination of undated handout file photos from Britain's Metropolitan Police shows Abdulla Ahmed Ali, left, Assad Sarwar, center, and Tanvir Hussain, right. (Metropolitan Police, AFP/Getty Images / April 4, 2008)
Posted on 09/07/2009 7:09:43 PM PDT by thecodont
Reporting from Washington and London - Three young Britons were declared guilty Monday in a London court of planning to blow up transatlantic planes in a spectacularly scaled, Al Qaeda terrorist plot that could have killed thousands of people.
A jury in Woolwich Crown Court convicted Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 28, Tanvir Hussain, 28, and Assad Sarwar, 29, of conspiring to murder by setting off liquid bombs smuggled aboard seven North America-bound airliners in sports-drink bottles. Police have said their plan was possibly days from fruition when the men were arrested in August 2006 amid the biggest counter-terrorism investigation in British history.
The plot sparked worldwide changes in airport security, including limits on how much liquid passengers can carry aboard flights.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
A combination of undated handout file photos from Britain's Metropolitan Police shows Abdulla Ahmed Ali, left, Assad Sarwar, center, and Tanvir Hussain, right. (Metropolitan Police, AFP/Getty Images / April 4, 2008)
Obama’s Religion of Peace, our friends, strikes again!
They look like good Baptist don’t they?
I’m glad they were on their toes over there.
Nice convictions.
Nope-Amish
And London’s Mayor wants Britons to fast to understand Islam? Why not just kill some children?
So much for the world respecting America again now that Bush is gone.
How long until Obambi asks that they be released?? You know, to show how understanding and muslim-friendly we are.
April 7: quote:
ANKARA, Turkey — President Obama promised Monday to “extend the hand of friendship” to Muslims around the world as he visited this country that straddles the Middle East and Europe.
“The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans,” Obama said. “Many other Americans have Muslims in their family or have lived in a Muslim-majority country. I know, because I am one of them.”
He ought to get them to eat fish on Fridays so that they can understand Catholics.
Don’t lock them up in Scotland. They will be out for humanitarian reasons before the month is up.
And tell me again, why we don’t profile?
No they look like reall Mulim thugs. I hope they all in rot in jail and later burn in hell.
I hope they get served pork every day in prison.
What a relief - they might have been Muslims.
You can just imagine those guys being part of the thin red line the line at Agincourt or Waterloo — eh what?
You’d think this would be a major news story and if you hadn’t posted this article I probably would not have heard of it. Just looked at foxnews.com and they have this way down on their page. It kinda feels like 910 and we could get hit hard again soon.
Yes we could get hit hard again.
But, then, there is no more “war on terrorism” didn’t you hear?
I wonder if Zero’s bow to the Saudi Prince was a plea to them to please not try to attack us again....
“Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 28, Tanvir Hussain, 28, and Assad Sarwar, 29,...”
Ah, yes, good old reliable British names!/s
He was waterboarded 183 times...and it was worth it.
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