Airlines gang guilty

The Daily Telegraph (UK) ^ | 9/7/2009 | Duncan Gardham

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Airlines gang guilty

An al-Qaeda cell has been found guilty of planning a series of co-ordinated suicide bomb attacks against trans-Atlantic airliners in the world’s biggest terrorist plot.

By Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent Published: 4:22PM BST 07 Sep 2009

Prosecutors decided that it was vital to put the three leaders – who were found guilty of conspiracy to murder last year - on trial again in order to prove the threat to air traffic which has resulted in a ban on liquids over 100ml on flights.

The proceedings have taken three years and cost an estimated £100m but today the three men were found guilty of conspiracy to murder by detonating explosive devices on trans-Atlantic aircraft at Woolwich Crown Court.

The jury found a fourth man, an Islamic convert called Umar Islam, 31, guilty of conspiracy to murder, but could not decide if he knew about the plan to blow up aircraft.

Three others, Ibrahim Savant, 28, Arafat Waheed Khan, 28, Waheed Zaman, 25, were acquitted of the airlines plot but the jury could not decide whether they were guilty of conspiracy to murder.

An eighth man, Donald Stewart-Whyte, 23, was acquitted for all charges.

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Isn't multi-culti just great ?!

Home grown wackos.

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The jury found a fourth man, an Islamic convert called Umar Islam, 31, guilty of conspiracy to murder, but could not decide if he knew about the plan to blow up aircraft. Three others, Ibrahim Savant, 28, Arafat Waheed Khan, 28, Waheed Zaman, 25, were acquitted of the airlines plot but the jury could not decide whether they were guilty of conspiracy to murder.

So the first guy was "conspiring" with himself? Methinks he's going to get off too.

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Will the left call this one racial profiling?