LONDON, April 30 (Xinhua) -- Five men were given life
sentence on Monday after being found guilty of planning bomb attacks in Britain
which had targeted a shopping center, nightclub and the gas network.
Among the five, Omar Khyam, had met the July 7
suicide bombers and boasted of working for the number three in al Qaida, the
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reported on Monday evening.
Michael Astill who has presided over the year-long
trial, which was one of the biggest and most expensive one in British criminal
history, said the men, all British citizens, had "betrayed their country."
Peter Clarke, Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the
Metropolitan Police, noted that the men "were trained, dedicated, ruthless
terrorists who were obviously planning to carry out an attack against the
British public."
Police cracked the bomb plot in 2004 after MI5, the
security service, had watched an Islamic extremist network with links across the
world.
Investigation into the bomb plot linked back to
senior al-Qaida figures in Pakistan and Afghanistan, including one who was
detained by U.S. forces in Iraq at the weekend, said the report.
The 25-year-old Khyam was found guilty of conspiring
to cause explosions likely to endanger life between January 2003 and March of
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LONDON, April 24 (Xinhua) -- Britain's senior
anti-terror officer cautioned on Tuesday against possible terrorist threat to
the country.
Peter Clark, head of the anti-terror squad and Deputy
Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, said in a speech on Tuesday
evening the threat from terrorism is "deadly, enduring and to a significant
extent targeted at the UK," Sky news reported. Full story
BEIJING, April 24 (Xinhuanet) -- Six men, including
radical Muslim Abu Izzadeen, were arrested Tuesday by British police in
pre-dawn, anti-terror raids in and around London.
"Six men have been arrested under the Terrorism Act
2000 in connection with inciting others to commit acts of terrorism overseas and
terrorist fund raising," a Metropolitan Police spokesman said. "A number of
searches are ongoing in connection with the investigation. Full story
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