Accused air bomb plotters plead guilty
Eight men are accused of plotting to blow up airplanes mid-air in 2006
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Monday, 21, Jul 2008 11:28
Two men accused of plotting to blow up passenger flights midair have pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit public nuisance.
Arafat Waheed Khan, 27, and Waheed Zaman, 24, are among eight men also accused of planning to kill passengers flying from Britain to the US in 2006.
Last week, three of the accused, Abdulla Ahmed Ali, Assad Sarwar and Tanvir Hussain, admitted to conspiring to cause explosions by plotting a blast at Heathrow airport.
They claimed that a protest against Britain's foreign policy they were planning would possibly have included a small explosion at the airport's Terminal Three but that no-one would have been hurt.
Seven out of the eight have now pleaded guilty to the nuisance charge but deny conspiracy to murder between January and August 2006.
The jury at Woolwich crown court have been shown alleged suicide videos made by the defendants and Peter Wright, prosecuting, claims the men wanted to "achieve immortality and notoriety in equal measure".
The case continues and the jury is expected to retire at some stage this week.