(excerpts)Aspiring legislator, pilot and self-confessed Al-Qaeda operative Mohammed Afroze was on Friday found guilty of conspiring to ‘‘commit terrorist acts on territories of nations at peace with India’’ and forgery. … Afroze’s conviction is probably the first such of an operative from Osama bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda in India, and came after investigators searched for evidence in at least three countries. … The police charged that between 1997 and 2001, the three accused had entered into a criminal conspiracy to hijack passenger planes and crash them into the House of Commons in London, the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon in...