Four men have been found guilty by a British court of plotting to carry out bomb attacks on London's transport system in July 2005.
Muktah Said Ibrahim, 29, Yassin Hassan Omar, 26, Ramzi Mohammed, 25, and Hussein Osman, 28, - were found guilty of conspiracy to murder after a trial lasting almost six months. The jury is still considering verdicts against two other men facing the same charges.
Police said the men, Muslims of African origin, would have caused carnage on a similar scale to suicide bombings that killed 52 people two weeks earlier but the main charges on their bombs failed to explode.
The convicted men claimed the bombings were a hoax, not designed to kill but to be a protest against Britain's involvement in Iraq. Ibrahim, the self-confessed bomb-maker and the plot's mastermind, said the bombs were deliberately designed not to explode but only to go "pop".
The attacks came in the aftermath of the devastating July 7th bombings on London's transport system carried out by four young Britons.
Their conviction comes just over a week after two car bombs were found in London and a jeep packed with fuel was rammed into a Scottish airport and set alight.
The jury will convene again tomorrow to consider verdicts for two others, who deny charges against them.