Guilty! The terror ringleaders who plotted another 9/11

[Valin]

The Independent :

 

Police hailed success of the largest counter-terrorism operation since airline plot of 2006

Paul Peachey , Jonathan Brown , Kim Sengupta

2/21/13

 

 

 

The ringleaders of a Birmingham-based extremist cell whose deadly ambitions were matched only by their incompetence are facing lengthy jail terms after the unravelling of their plot for a terrorist spectacular to rival the September 11 attacks.

 

The gang planned to send up to eight suicide bombers to carry out attacks against crowds of people with rucksacks stuffed full of explosives with the intention of mass murder on a scale bigger than the 2005 attacks on the London transport network.

 

Their detailed plotting was captured on bugging devices as they drove around bragging about the damage they would inflict and during bomb-making experiments at a safe house in the heart of the second city's Muslim community.

 

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