UK Terror Cell Plotted Dirty Bomb Attack

The UK jihadis convicted of conspiracy to commit mass murder with fertilizer bombs also took steps to carry out a more terrifying kind of attack:
a dirty bomb
The gang’s most frightening plot was to buy a "dirty" nuclear bomb from the Russian Mafia and blow up a crowded city centre. Apart from the mass killing, the explosion would have left radioactive fall-out over a wide area.
One plotter later told interrogators he was in talks to obtain a "radio-isotope" device. He said he contacted a man via the internet who claimed to have a "source" in the Russian Mafia. But the plotters were never able to get their hands on a nuclear device.
The judge described ringleader Omar Khyam, 25, as "ruthless, devious and dangerous" and accused fellow plotter Anthony Garcia, 25, of harbouring a "murderous ambition on the UK".
The pair and three other "home-grown" terrorists, Waheed Mahmood, 35, Jawad Akbar, 23, and Salahuddin Amin, 32, were jailed for life for conspiracy to cause explosions after a record-breaking Old Bailey trial that lasted a year. The judge warned them they may never be released. The cost to the taxpayer of bringing the gang to justice was a staggering £50million.
The five extremists planned to massacre thousands of their fellow countrymen in up to 30 explosions across the country. Packed pubs, clubs, High Streets and trains were on the terrorists’ hit list as well as major gas and electricity plants.
Khyam, who once dreamed of playing cricket for England, also planned to lead his gang in the slaughter of hundreds by blowing up the Bluewater shopping centre in Kent and London’s trendy Ministry of Sound nightclub.
They even talked about dropping a bomb on the House of Commons during Prime Minister’s Question Time to "take out" Tony Blair and every MP in the land.
Khyam and some of his gang were disciples of radical clerics including hook-handed Abu Hamza and and Sheikh Abdullah Al-Faisal, now both behind bars. The gang planned to detonate remote-controlled bombs across Britain in revenge for the Iraq war.
They gloated over the prospect of carrying out atrocities on the scale of 9/11 in America and the 2004 bombings in Madrid, where 191 were killed.
One gang member was bugged by police as he told another: "Spain was a beautiful job, weren’t it? Absolutely beautiful - so much impact."