Three men have been found guilty of plotting to carry out suicide bombings on London's transport network on 21 July 2005. Muktar Said Ibrahim, 29, Yassin Omar, 26, and Ramzi Mohammed, 25, were convicted of conspiracy to murder.
Verdicts on three other defendants, who all deny charges against them, are still being considered by the jury.
Woolwich Crown Court heard how the cell tried to set off bombs on the Tube and a bus, two weeks after the 7/7 attacks.
Majority verdict
The suspects had claimed the bombs were fakes, and their actions had been intended as a protest against the war in Iraq.
After unanimously returning three guilty verdicts against Ibrahim, Omar and Mohammed, jurors were sent out to continue their deliberations on the three other defendants, Hussain Osman, 28, Manfo Kwaku Asiedu, 34, and Adel Yahya, 24.The judge, Mr Justice Fulford QC, said he would accept a majority verdict of 10-to-2.
Mohammed had targeted a train at Oval station in south London, Omar was on board a train at Warren Street in central London and Ibrahim had boarded a bus in Hackney, east London.
The trial heard that dozens of people would have been killed if the bombs, which were made of a similar hydrogen peroxide mixture used by the 7 July attackers, had detonated properly.
Mohammed and Ibrahim were captured a week later at a flat in west London.
Omar was arrested in Birmingham after travelling there disguised as a woman in a burka.
Nigel Sweeney QC, prosecutor, had told the trial the men chose a date "just 14 days after the carnage of July 7".
But the trial heard evidence that the conspiracy "had been in existence long before the events of July 7" and was not a "hastily-arranged copycat" operation.
Mr Sweeney said: "The failure of those bombs to explode owed nothing to the intention of these defendants, rather it was simply the good fortune of the travelling public that day that they were spared."
Profile of the July 21 plotters
1 comment:
The government allowed them to come to Britain, it gave them leave to remain, it gave them British passports, it paid for their educations, gave them flats and money to spend whilst they planned carnage. They were able to fly to Pakistan and return with no action taken.
Has anything changed?
No!
The Third World continues to be unleashed on us, every day thousands more arrive swelling the ranks of the Islamic 'community' in Britain.
You see, it is not the odd bomb going off that threatens us, although that in itself is avoidable, it is the government sponsered Islamic community that is the threat.
Why does this government continue to import them? Votes, cheap labour for their corporate friends, keep wages down etc...
I am also begining to beleive the government actually does not mind too much if they plan terror! It gives them an excuse to take our liberties away, the more terror the more powerful they become!
How many dead will it take for us to roll over and accept the ID card?
How many more bombs before the government can intern as it wills?
how many more expolsions before the government can detain people for 90 days+?
This government is the enemy, they could stop the muslims entering if they had any desire to do so. It is in their interests to allow the immigration to continue and even to increase it, more muslims, more terror, more chaos, more laws, more power, less freedom!
The state is our greatest enemy, the muslims are their unwitting pawns!
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