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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/04/world/europe/04london.html
British Muslim Admits Plot to Set Off Explosives at Heathrow Airport
[New York Times ] John F. Burns - Abdulla Ahmed Ali, a British man accused of leading a plot to blow up seven trans-Atlantic airliners on a single day in 2006, said in a London court on Tuesday that he had planned to set off one or two explosive devices at Heathrow Airport. Ali is one of eight Muslim men on trial on charges of planning suicide attacks on airliners using bombs mixed from household chemicals carried on board. Ali, 27, told the court that he had originally planned to use one of the peroxide bombs to attack the House of Commons, but due to tight security he had switched the target to Heathrow. In his first day of testimony on Monday, Ali was questioned about "martyrdom" videotapes made by six of the men now on trial.