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Three guilty of airline bomb plot

Published:Monday | September 7, 2009 | 1:51 PM

Three men have been found guilty of plotting to blow up planes above the Atlantic with home-made liquid bombs.



A jury convicted ringleader 28-year-old Abdulla Ahmed Ali, of conspiring to activate bombs disguised as drinks.



Twenty-eight-year-old Tanvir Hussain, and 29-year-old Assad Sarwar, were also found guilty of the same charge at Woolwich Crown Court.



The men\'s arrests in 2006 led to airport restrictions on liquids.



Ali, Hussain and Sarwar were previously found guilty of conspiracy to murder involving liquid bombs, but that jury could not decide whether their plans extended to detonating the devices on planes.



Now a second jury has decided that such a terror plot did exist.