(Telegraph-UK) Tom Whitehead - The ringleaders of an al-Qaeda-backed British jihadi group - Irfan Naseer, 31, Irfan Khalid, 27, and Ashik Ali, 27 - have been found guilty of plotting the worst terror attack on UK soil. The Birmingham-based gang planned to use eight suicide bombers, armed with guns, to cause "mass death" and "carnage" on the streets of Britain and wanted to carry out "another 9/11." Six other men linked to the plot have already pleaded guilty to related terror offenses. Naseer and Khalid traveled to Pakistan for terror training, where they made martyrdom videos to be released by al-Qaeda after they had blown themselves up. Detective Inspector Adam Gough said: "They were the real deal. They were committed, passionate extremists hell bent on pursuing their intention of killing as many people as they could in coordinated suicide bomb attacks." The gang raised more than 20,000 pounds by claiming to be collecting for Muslim Aid to fund their atrocity.
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