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Last Updated: Monday, 30 April 2007, 10:16 GMT 11:16 UK

“Men convicted over UK bomb plot”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The bomb ingredients were found at a self-storage unit in west London
Five men have been convicted of an al-Qaeda-linked bomb plot in Britain which could have killed hundreds.

Jurors in the massive year-long Old Bailey trial, heard of plans to target a shopping centre, nightclub and the gas network with a fertiliser bomb.

Police smashed the plot in 2004 after MI5 had watched an Islamist extremist network with links across the world.”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The Old Bailey heard the defendants had had at least two fellow conspirators.

One of them, an American called Mohammed Junaid Babar, admitted his role in the plot after being arrested by the FBI and became a vital prosecution witness.

The other was Mohammed Momin Khawaja, awaiting trial in Canada.”