Date published: 2008/09/08
The BBC says:
Three men have been found guilty of a massive terrorist conspiracy to murder involving home-made bombs.
Abdulla Ahmed Ali, Assad Sarwar and Tanvir Hussain's convictions follow a huge terrorism inquiry, which led to sweeping airport restrictions.
The three, on trial with another five men, had pleaded guilty to plotting to cause an explosion. Seven admitted plotting to cause a public nuisance.
The eighth man, Mohammad Gulzar, was cleared at Woolwich Crown Court.
The group had been accused of plotting to bring down transatlantic airliners with home-made liquid explosives, disguised as soft drinks.
But after more than 50 hours of deliberations, the jury did not find any of the defendants guilty of conspiring to target aircraft.
The BBC might as well have said that not only were these people not found guilty of trying to blow up aircraft, but even if they had tried to do this, they would have had no hope in succeeding, given how they allegedly tried to do it. This is yet another of the legacies of Blair-inspired hysteria: people cannot even take drinking water through airports, except in risible amounts.
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