Four men were sentenced to at least 40 years in prison after being found guilty of a plot to bomb London's transport network on July 21, 2005, Bloomberg agency reported.

Muktar Said Ibrahim, Yassin Hassin Omar, Hussein Osman and Ramzi Mohammed were convicted by a jury in London on July 9 of conspiracy to murder. The men were charged with attacks on three trains and a bus. No one was hurt when the explosives failed to detonate completely.

"This was a viable, nearly successful attempt at mass murder," Justice Adrian Fulford said at a sentencing hearing. "It was long in the planning and coming soon after the 7th July, designed for maximum impact."

At the beginning of January a court ruled that the six men planned "murderous suicide bombings" on public transport in London on 21 July 2005, two weeks after the 7 July bombings killed 52.

Muktar Ibrahim, Manfo Asiedu, Hussein Osman, Yassin Omar, Ramzi Mohammed and Adel Yahya - all originally from Africa - denied conspiracy to murder.

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