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Guilty: Abdulla Ahmed Ali, Assad Anwar and Tanvir Hussein
Suicide threat: Abdulla Ahmed Ali in his video rant
Ah yes; terrorists, supposedly British home-growns with no allegiance to anything British, living a lie amongst the folk of their homeland. Traitors and commiters of treason in fact.
Bomb-making kit: The jury saw this police photo of a box containing jars
Disturbing links have also emerged between the group and a secretive Muslim sect which is lobbying to build Europe's biggest mosque in the shadow of the London 2012 Olympic site.
<DIV class=thinArtSplitter>Tablighi Jamaat is an ultra-orthodox movement which has its UK base in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, the home of 7/7 ringleader Mohammed Siddique Khan.
Both he and fellow 7/7 bomber Shezhad Tanweer were thought to attend the mosque. Richard Reid, the shoebomber who tried to blow up a flight to America, also attended mosques run by the group.
The operation to thwart Ali, Sarwar and Hussain is one of the largest ever carried out by Scotland Yard and has cost more than £20million.
The three men planned to fill 500ml Lucozade and Oasis bottles with a homemade fluid concocted from hydrogen peroxide - commonly used as hair bleach - and dyed the same colour as the drink, which would have passed undetected through security scanners.
When the plot was smashed in August 2006 it triggered chaos at airports as a ban on liquid containers bigger than 100ml was brought in overnight. The ban is still in force today.
Security services became aware of the plot in May 2006 and a massive surveillance operation began. Prosecutors alleged Ali, Sarwar and Hussain plotted to blow up seven planes bound from Heathrow to cities in the U.S. and Canada.
It was also claimed that the bombers talked of taking their wives and children on board planes.
At least 2,000 passengers and crew would have perished and thousands more could have died if the planes had been flying over land.
Both Ali and Hussain made 'martyrdom' suicide videos in which Ali ranted of his desire to 'scatter the body parts' of non-believers while Hussain wished he could 'do this again and again'.
Sarwar was not destined to die in the plot - he planned to rebuild the terror cell for a second wave of terror attacks.
His targets included Canary Wharf, the Greenwich Foot Tunnel under the Thames and nuclear power stations.
The eight men as depicted in court: (l to r) Abdullah Ahmed Ali, Assad Sarwar, Tanvir Hussain, Mohammed Gulzur, Ibrahim Savant, Arafat Khan, Waheed Zaman and Umar Islam
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He stockpiled hydrogen peroxide in the garage of his home in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, and in a suitcase hidden in woods. Police also found a bomb factory in the first floor of a terrace house in East London.
The plot originated in and was directed from Pakistan by a senior Al Qaeda figure called Abu Abaida Al Masri who, the Daily Mail can reveal, was also the mastermind of the 7/7 London bombings which killed 52.
Another British-born Muslim called Rashid Rauf, a crucial go-between in the plot, is on the run in Pakistan.
It was his capture there in August 2006 which triggered the arrests in Britain when police realised the men were due to carry out a 'dummy run' within days.
The important roles of 27-year-old Rauf and Al Masri, combined with the fact that they are unaccounted for, raises concerns that they may be coordinating another terror attack.
There are also alarming links between the airline bombers and the 7/7 and 21/7 bombers, suggesting that all the groups knew each other and trained together in Pakistan.
Bottle bomb ringleader Ali and 21/7 leader Muktar Ibrahim were in phone contact only two months before the failed suicide attack in 2005.
And the pair were in Pakistan for training at the same time as 7/7 ringleader Mohammed Siddique Khan and fellow bomber Shezhad Tanweer.
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While Tablighi Jamaat maintains that it 'utterly refutes' any links to terrorism or terrorists, in 2003 the FBI said there was a significant Tablighi presence in the U.S. and that Al Qaeda used it for recruiting.
Ali and Sarwar were both committed members and attended religious study meetings and weekend camps run by the group in East London.
The links to terrorism are hard to ignore, especially when the group wants to build a £75million 'megamosque' for 12,000 worshippers next to the Olympic village and has hired a Westminster lobbying company to spearhead the bid.
Yesterday at Woolwich Crown Court in South-East London a jury found Ali, Sarwar and Hussain guilty of conspiracy to murder after a five-month trial but failed to reach a verdict on whether they intended to blow up transatlantic jets.
They will be sentenced at a later date.
The jusy also failed to reach a verdict on whether four other alleged bombers - Ibrahim Savant, Umar Islam, Arafat Khan and Waheed Zaman - were guilty of conspiracy to murder.
An eighth man, Mohammed Gulzar, was cleared of all charges.
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