Four guilty of July 21 bomb plot

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Four men have been found guilty of a plot to set off bombs on London's transport network on July 21, 2005.

Muktar Said Ibrahim, 29, of Stoke Newington, north London; Yassin Omar, 26, of New Southgate, north London; Ramzi Mohammed, 25, of North Kensington and Hussain Osman, 28, of no fixed address have been convicted of conspiracy to murder.

The jury of nine women and three men at Woolwich Crown Court announced their verdicts on Ibrahim, Omar and Mohammed before lunchtime while the Osman verdict was delivered at around 4.40pm.

Verdicts are still awaited on two more suspects, Manfo Kwaku Asiedu, 34, of no fixed address, and Adel Yahya, 24, of High Road, Tottenham, north London. The jury has now been sent home for the evening.

The six men were accused of taking part in the plot to detonate rucksack bombs exactly two weeks after the 7/7 attacks which killed 52 people.

The terror cell attempted to detonate hydrogen peroxide and chapatti flour bombs covered in shrapnel on tube trains and a bus.

Their murderous plan only failed at the last moment because of problems with the home-made explosives, hot weather, or mere "good fortune", Woolwich Crown Court heard.

Just three months after being granted a British passport, Ibrahim - the cell's "emir" or leader - travelled to Pakistan in December 2004 to learn how to carry out a terrorist attack.

He was there at exactly the same time as July 7 ring leader Mohammed Siddique Khan and his fellow suicide bomber Shehzad Tanweer.

In April 2005, preparations for the July 21 plot began in earnest.

The terror cell began buying the first components of their home-made explosive devices, including 440 litres of hydrogen peroxide purchased at its highest commercially available concentration.

In New Southgate, north London, Omar's one-bedroom flat became the "bomb factory" where the men spent hours boiling the chemical to make it more readily explosive.

On July 21, Ibrahim, Omar and Mohammed met in the early hours and mixed by hand, the peroxide with chapatti flour and stuck nuts and screws onto the plastic mixture containers to cause maximum injury.

The devices were rigged-up with a detonator and a battery and the three set out with their lethal load.

It is beyond belief

[Saurgrist]

Ok, this is really enough. London is really under fire and we need to do something about it! I don't know what though. These people are insane and will stop at nothing to kill everyone...

[TGLucario]

i doutb putting them in jail will help, as there might be over 9000 more people, but alas, its a start & we need to keep alert!

[stubacca68]

HANG THEMits treason in my eyes