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Three British men guilty of airline bomb plot

By Michael Peel, Legal Correspondent

Published: September 7 2009 16:00 | Last updated: September 7 2009 19:45

Abdulla Ahmed Ali, Assad Sarwar, Tanvir HussainAgence,France-Presse
Conspirators (from left): Abdulla Ahmed Ali, Assad Sarwar and Tanvir Hussain. The men claimed that they meant only to frighten people at airports

Three British Islamist extremists plotted to kill thousands of people using liquid bombs on transatlantic flights, a jury found on Monday, in a case that triggered chaos for travellers and raised big questions about anti-terror policing and prosecution.

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