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Five Britons Guilty in Bomb Plot; Tied to 2005 London Attackers

[New York Times] Jane Perlez and Elaine Sciolino - A jury found five British Muslim men guilty on Monday of planning fertilizer-bomb attacks around London, ending a year-long trial that linked the plotters with two of the four men who blew themselves up on London's transit system in July 2005. Authorities had closely monitored meetings in 2004 between members of the two plots but never fully investigated the men who pulled off the transit attacks, which killed 56 people. At least some of the men in both plots were trained at military camps in Pakistan suspected of having connections to al-Qaeda. Britain's senior counterterrorism police officer, Peter Clarke, said the "investigation showed the links that these men had with al-Qaeda in Pakistan."
2007-05-01 01:00:00
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