Terror Cell Planned To Blow Up Planes

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From 'B&D Recorder': A British terror cell, including a 26-year-old from Barking, was set to blow up passenger jets in mid air using liquid bombs disguised as soft drinks bottles, a court heard on Thursday. The gang was prepared to launch co-ordinated suicide attacks on planes flying from Heathrow to the US and Canada, it is claimed. Jurors were told that if successful, the death toll caused would have been "almost unprecedented". Mohammed Gulzar (see photo), of Priory Road, Barking; Ahmed Abdullah Ali, of Walthamstow; Tanvir Hussain, of Leyton; Umar Islam, of West Ham; Arafat Waheed Khan, of Walthamstow; Assad Ali Sarwar, of High Wycombe, Bucks; Ibrahim Savant, of Stamford Hill, and Waheed Zaman, of Walthamstow, were arrested on August 9, 2006. They deny charges of conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to commit an act of violence likely to endanger the safety of an aircraft between January 1 and August 11, 2006.

Prosecutor Peter Wright QC told Woolwich Crown Court that they were "actively engaged at the time of their arrest in inflicting heavy casualties upon an unwitting civilian population in the name of Islam". He said: "These men were, we say, indifferent to the carnage that was likely to ensue if their plans were successful. The identity of their victims was a complete irrelevance. What these men intended was a deadly statement of intent which would have global impact."

The trial continues.