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Tue 09 Sep 2009Life for airline bomb plotters
THREE BRITISH-BORN Muslims who plotted to blow up transatlantic aircraft in mid-flight from Heathrow to the United States and Canada in 2006 were jailed for life yesterday.
The main plotter, Abdulla Ahmed Ali (28), was jailed for at least 40 years, while the man who prepared the hydrogen peroxide-filled “liquid bombs”, Assad Sarawr, must serve at least 36 years. The third man, Tanvir Hussain (28), was jailed for at least 32 years at Woolwich Crown Court.
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