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Airline bomb plot ringleader gets 40 years in UK

Euro-Islam15 years ago15 years ago02 mins

A British judge on Monday sentenced the ringleader of a plot to bring down trans-Atlantic planes with liquid explosives to at least 40 years in jail and three fellow British Muslims to long prison sentences. The sentences for the planned suicide bombings were among the longest ever handed out by a British court in a…

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Airline bomb plot ‘dedicated to Bin Laden’

Euro-Islam16 years ago15 years ago02 mins

One of the eight men accused of a plot to blow up transatlantic flights dedicated his actions to Osama bin Laden and the Taliban leader Mullah Omar, a court heard today. The 19-minute “martyrdom” video of Umar Islam, 29, was played to the jury at Woolwich crown court. Wearing a black and white checked headscarf,…

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