THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: It would have been the most devastating terrorist attack on British soil leaving hundreds dead – and by al-Qaeda inspired but “home-grown” Islamic fanatics.
Up to eight suicide bombers carrying backpacks rammed with explosives and armed with guns were to carry out a horrifying blend of the 7/7 and Mumbai atrocities.
The jihadi gang planned to walk in to crowded, public places shooting indiscriminately before simultaneously detonating their terrible homemade payloads killing hundreds on their wake.
Although no firm target was settled on, the 2012 Olympics may have been one along with soldiers based in this country.
They even boasted about "hitting" David Cameron, his friends and other non – believers in the "land of Satan".
The plot was the most significant since the plans to blow up transatlantic aeroplanes with liquid bombs in 2006 and is likely to have led to the largest loss of life from a terror attack on UK shores. » | Tom Whitehead, Security Editor | Thursday, February 21, 2013
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Suicide bomb gang guilty of plotting 'worst ever terror attack in Britain': The ringleaders of an al-Qaeda backed British jihadi group have been found guilty of plotting the worst terror attack on UK soil. » | Tom Whitehead | Thursday, February 21, 2013
BBC: Police: Birmingham terror trio 'wanted this to be their 9/11' – Three Birmingham men convicted of planning a campaign of terrorist attacks in the UK "wanted it to be their 9/11", according to police. ¶ Assistant Chief Constable Marcus Beale said all three had set out "to cause some serious harm". ¶ Irfan Naseer, 31, Irfan Khalid, 27, and Ashik Ali, 27 were found guilty at Woolwich Crown Court of planning to set off up to eight bombs in rucksacks and possibly detonate bombs on timers. (+ BBC video) » | Thursday, February 21, 2013
