Five given life for fertiliser bomb terror plot
Five members of a British al-Qaeda cell were jailed for life today for plotting to use fertiliser bombs to blow up the Bluewater shopping centre, the Ministry of Sound nightclub and other targets across the UK including gas and electricity supplies.
The ringleader of a plot that would have claimed hundreds of lives, Omar Khyam, was told that he would have to spend at least 20 years in jail - but all five men were warned that they may never be released.
“You have betrayed this country that has given you every opportunity,” said Sir Michael Astill, QC, the judge at the Old Bailey. “All of you may never be released: it is not a foregone conclusion.”
With the verdict, however, comes fresh revelations about the full extent of MI5’s knowledge about the July 7 suicide bombers. It can now be disclosed that Khyam met Mohammed Siddique Khan, the leader of the 7/7 plotters, at least four times in England while under MI5 surveillance but the link between them was never properly followed up.
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Source: timesonline.co.uk
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