08 September,2009 08:16 AM IST | | Agencies
Three Britons have been found guilty of plotting to kill thousands of people by blowing up transatlantic airliners bound for North America.
Abdulla Ahmed Ali (28), Tanvir Hussain (28) and Assad Sarwar (29) were convicted of conspiring to detonate bombs hidden in soft drink bottles in mid-flight suicide attacks.
The bombers intended to simultaneously destroy at least seven planes carrying over 200 passengers each between London's Heathrow airport and the United States and Canada in August 2006, prosecutors said.
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The suspected al-Qaeda plot led to a worldwide tightening of security restrictions on the amount of liquids passengers could take on board an aircraft.
