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| Several members of a group accused of plotting to blow up transatlantic passenger planes played tennis as they finalised plans, a court has heard. | |
| Undercover police watched at least three of the eight men play sport in east London in July 2006, Woolwich Crown Court was told. | Undercover police watched at least three of the eight men play sport in east London in July 2006, Woolwich Crown Court was told. |
| The jury heard that games took place between visits to a flat in Walthamstow where liquid bombs were being prepared. | The jury heard that games took place between visits to a flat in Walthamstow where liquid bombs were being prepared. |
| All eight men deny conspiring to murder and endangering aircraft in 2006. | All eight men deny conspiring to murder and endangering aircraft in 2006. |
| Their arrests in August that year led to a ban on passengers carrying most liquids on board aircraft. | |
| Pakistan trips | |
| Peter Wright QC, prosecuting, described one of the defendants, Arafat Waheed Khan, 26, as an intended suicide bomber and an "important conduit" between co-defendants, Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 27, and Assad Sarwar, 24. | |
| He said Mr Khan's passport showed he had travelled to Pakistan between October 2005 and January 2006 at the same time as Mr Ali and Mr Sarwar. | |
| Mr Wright added that Mr Khan was directly involved in buying bomb-making equipment and appeared in two separate suicide videos. | |
| The eight men are accused of plotting to use home-made devices of liquid explosives, which would be smuggled on to aircraft and then used to blow up a number of transatlantic flights from London's Heathrow Airport. | |
| The other defendants are Tanvir Hussain, 27, of Leyton, east London, and Mohammed Gulzar, 26, of Barking. | |
| Also charged, are Ibrahim Savant, 27, of Stoke Newington, Waheed Zaman, 23, of Walthamstow, and Umar Islam, aka Brian Young, 29, of Plaistow, east London. |