Thursday, April 03, 2008

"all in the name of Islam"

I'm sorry, but I can't get my mind around this sort of action...

Eight men planned to detonate bombs aboard flights from London across the Atlantic to create deaths on an almost unprecedented scale, a court has heard.

Homemade devices were to be smuggled on to passenger aircraft and detonated mid-flight, Woolwich Crown Court heard.
After their arrests in August 2006, passengers were banned from carrying most liquids on board aircraft.

The eight men all deny conspiring to murder others and endangering aircraft bound for the US and Canada in 2006.
Prosecutor Peter Wright QC said the men planned to inflict heavy casualties, "all in the name of Islam".

He told the court: "These men were, we say, indifferent to the carnage that was likely to ensue.


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