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Summary
A British court found three men guilty in connection with a plot to blow up airliners flying from London to North America using liquid explosives in 2006. Ringleader Abdulla Ahmed Ali was among those found guilty of conspiring to murder thousands in the plot. Tanvir Hussain, 28, and Assad Sarwar, 29, were also found guilty on the same charges of plotting to carry out near-simultaneous bombings on planes flying from London's Heathrow airport to the United States and Canada. But Ibrahim Savant, 28, Arafat Waheed Khan, 27, and Waheed Zaman, 24, were found not guilty of the airline plot at Woolwich Crown Court. The court trial heard how the conspirators planned to drill holes in the bottoms of soft drink bottles, drain the contents and fill them with liquid explosives before sealing the holes with glue. The explosives would contain hydrogen peroxide mixed with food colouring and a powdered soft drink. The group planned to smuggle the bombs aboard flights bound for Montreal and Toronto in Canada, and San Francisco, Washington, New York and Chicago in the United States that all left London within two-and-a-half hours of each other.
