TWO terror suspects discussed using 30 suicide hijackers to crash a BA plane — killing 300 passengers, the Old Bailey heard yesterday.
Omar Khyam, 24, and Jawad Akbar, 22, are accused of being part of a UK-based al-Qaeda cell
The pair were caught on secret surveillance tapes played to the court and allegedly tested bombs at a Pakistan terror training camp and stashed 600kg of fertiliser in a lock-up.
But they were secretly followed and bugged by MI5 agents in 2004 and were arrested before they could strike, it is claimed. Khyam and Akbar talked about the possibility of an attack but it was "just an idea right now", the court heard.
In one conversation recorded at Akbar’s home in Uxbridge, West London, Khyam said: "Nobody knows what’s really going on, it’s just ideas coming out.
"Imagine you’ve got a plane, 300 people in it, you buy tickets for 30 brothers in there.
"They’re massive brothers, you just crash the plane. You could do it easy, it’s just an idea."
Akbar, a student at Brunel University, replied: "Thirty brothers, to find 30 brothers willing to commit suicide."
Khyam: "If you spoke to some serious brothers, to the right people, you’d probably get it, bro."
Akbar: "Thirty brothers who’d be willing to give their lives.’
Khyam: "Yeah, you’d get it bro, whether they were from abroad, you’d get it."
He later added: "As soon as an air marshal gets up and shoots one the others just jump him."
Earlier the pair talked about launching attacks such as poisoning water supplies, cutting power cables and targeting gas pipes.
Akbar and Khyam, both now of Crawley, West Sussex, and three other men deny a variety of charges relating to causing explosions and terrorism.
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