British prosecutors seek retrial for 3 men suspected of plot to blow up jetliners

October 4th, 2009 LONDON - British Army chief General Sir David Richards has warned the government and the public that if they don't "wake up" to need of winning the Afghanistan war, al-Qaeda and the Taliban may "happily blow all of us up". "If al-Qaeda and the Taliban believe they have defeated us - what next? Would they stop at Afghanistan? Pakistan is clearly a tempting target not least because of the fact that it is a nuclear-weaponed state and that is a terrifying prospect.

October 2nd, 2009 Germans arrest suspected al-Qaida supporterBERLIN — German authorities said Friday they arrested a man with dual Turkish-German citizenship suspected of attempting to recruit supporters for al-Qaida and procuring material that could be used to make a bomb. The 24-year-old man, identified only as Adnan V., was arrested Thursday after police searched an apartment in Offenbach and a business in nearby Frankfurt, federal prosecutors said.

September 14th, 2009 4 UK Muslims get hefty sentences for airline plotLONDON — In a case that altered airport security worldwide, three British Muslims were imprisoned Monday for at least 30 years each for a plot to kill thousands by blowing up trans-Atlantic airliners with liquid explosives hidden in soda bottles. The judge described the foiled suicide bombings — meant to rival the Sept.

September 14th, 2009 Airline bomb plot ringleader gets 40 years in UKLONDON — A British judge on Monday sentenced the ringleader of a plot to bring down trans-Atlantic planes with liquid explosives to at least 40 years in jail and three fellow British Muslims to long prison sentences. The sentences for the planned suicide bombings were among the longest ever handed out by a British court in a terrorism case.

September 12th, 2009 LONDON - British Muslim fanatics have issued fresh warnings of impending terrorist attacks in the country and claimed that volunteers are ready to follow three British Muslims convicted of conspiring to blow up planes with bottles of explosives. Earlier, British airport security staff and police had foiled a plot to blow up airliners, and arrested three men -Abdullah Ahmed Ali, Tanvir Hussein and Assad Sarwar.

September 9th, 2009 LONDON - A top Pakistani diplomat has reacted strongly to Britain's accusations regarding Pakistan harbouring extremists plotting to attack the UK. The diplomat charged Britain of not doing enough to tackle home grown terrorists and treating Pakistan as a "whipping boy".

September 9th, 2009 LONDON - Britain has been accused of treating Pakistan like a whipping boy while failing to do enough to check home-grown British terrorism. A senior Pakistani diplomat was Wednesday quoted saying terrorists convicted Monday of planning to blow up transatlantic airliners were born and brought up in Britain, not Pakistan.

September 8th, 2009 LONDON - British police were forced to cut short their investigation into the 2006 al-Qaeda airline bomb plot after the US pressurised Pakistan to arrest the suspected mastermind Rashid Rauf. According to The Telegraph, American intelligence officials, who were briefed about the police investigation, became frustrated at British reluctance to arrest the suspects.

September 8th, 2009 LONDON - A British court has been told that Al Qaeda terrorists planned to blow up at least 10,000 people, 5000 of them in four hours through a series of co-ordinated suicide bomb attacks on transatlantic airliners in 2006. With the court convicting three Muslims in connection with the case, the plans are now coming out into the open, The Telegraph reports.

September 7th, 2009 UK court convicts 3 of plot to blow up airlinersLONDON — Three British Muslims were convicted Monday of plotting to murder thousands by downing at least seven airliners bound for the U.S. and Canada in what was intended as the largest terrorist attack since Sept.

September 4th, 2009 UK teens accused of school plot filmed with bombsLONDON — Prosecutors say two British teens accused of plotting a Columbine-inspired attack on their school have been filmed making and detonating explosives. Jurors at Manchester Crown Court were played mobile phone footage that appeared to show 18-year-old Matthew Swift and his 16-year-old friend Ross McKnight exploding a homemade pipe bomb.

August 28th, 2009 Germany arrests suspect linked to US targets plotFRANKFURT — German authorities have arrested another suspect allegedly linked to a radical Islamic terror cell that plotted to attack U.S. targets in Germany, prosecutors said Friday.

April 13th, 2009 LONDON - Britain might eventually deport most of the 12 alleged Pakistani terrorists who were arrested from across the country last week. According to Times Online, officials in London and Islamabad said Britain has asked for an assurance from Pakistan over the treatment the arrested men would receive after they are deported.

April 10th, 2009 LONDON - Pakistan and Britain asked each other to 'do more' to counter terrorism after British police arrested a dozen men - most of them Pakistani students - for suspected links with a major terror plot. 'We are dealing with a very big terrorist plot - we've been following it for some time,' British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Thursday.

March 11th, 2009 LONDON - Cooperation from Pakistan was sketchy in the aftermath of the Mumbai terror attacks, a senior ex-American official was quoted saying Tuesday by a British paper. 'It appears there are divisions within the Pakistani intelligence and security forces over whether and how to approach terrorism and how to do it with groups who have long enjoyed active or passive support of Pakistani institutions,' Daniel Markey, a former senior South Asia State Department official under President George W.