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| Airline plot trio get life terms | Airline plot trio get life terms |
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| Three men who plotted to blow up transatlantic flights with liquid bombs have received life sentences, with minimum terms of 32 to 40 years. | Three men who plotted to blow up transatlantic flights with liquid bombs have received life sentences, with minimum terms of 32 to 40 years. |
| Ringleader Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 28, will serve a minimum of 40 years in jail. | Ringleader Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 28, will serve a minimum of 40 years in jail. |
| Plot "quartermaster" Assad Sarwar, 29, was jailed for at least 36 years, while Tanvir Hussain, 28, received at least 32 years' jail at Woolwich Crown Court. | Plot "quartermaster" Assad Sarwar, 29, was jailed for at least 36 years, while Tanvir Hussain, 28, received at least 32 years' jail at Woolwich Crown Court. |
| The judge said the men were guilty of "the most grave and wicked conspiracy ever proven within this jurisdiction". | The judge said the men were guilty of "the most grave and wicked conspiracy ever proven within this jurisdiction". |
| "The intention was to perpetrate a terrorist outrage that would stand alongside the events of September 11, 2001 in history," said Mr Justice Henriques. | |
| "I'm satisfied that there is every likelihood that this plot would have succeeded but for the intervention of the police and the security service." | |
| A fourth man, Umar Islam, 31, convicted of a more general conspiracy to murder charge, has been given a life sentence and will serve a minimum of 22 years in prison. | |
| The men's arrests in 2006 caused chaos to the global aviation industry and prompted continuing restrictions to the amount of liquids passengers can take on to aircraft. | |
| The Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer, is seeking a retrial of three other men for conspiracy to murder, after the jury failed to reach a verdict on this charge against them. | The Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer, is seeking a retrial of three other men for conspiracy to murder, after the jury failed to reach a verdict on this charge against them. |
| A legal hearing on 5 October will decide whether Ibrahim Savant, 28, Arafat Khan, 28, and Waheed Zaman, 25, will face another trial. | A legal hearing on 5 October will decide whether Ibrahim Savant, 28, Arafat Khan, 28, and Waheed Zaman, 25, will face another trial. |