Five men have been convicted of a bomb plot linked to al-Qaeda that could have killed hundreds of people in Britain. Photo by bbc.com
Five men have been convicted of a bomb plot linked to al-Qaeda that could have killed hundreds of people in Britain, BBC reported.
Police smashed the plot in 2004 after MI5 had watched an Islamist extremist network with links across the world. The plan included targeting a shopping centre, nightclub and the gas network with a giant fertiliser bomb.
It has also been revealed some of the plotters met two of the 7 July London suicide bombers.
Omar Khyam, 26, from Crawley, West Sussex, was found guilty of conspiring to cause explosions likely to endanger life between 1 January 2003 and 31 March 2004.
Also convicted were Waheed Mahmood, 34, and Jawad Akbar, 23, also of Crawley; Salahuddin Amin, 31, from Luton, Bedfordshire; Anthony Garcia, 24, of Barkingside, east London.
The men, all British citizens, face life sentences.
Two other men, Nabeel Hussain and Shujah Mahmood, were found not guilty.