Liquid bomb plot leader scouted Birmingham Airport
11.06.08
A British Muslim accused of planning the transatlantic flights liquid bomb plot told a court in London yesterday that he carried out research on the internet to identify Birmingham Airport as a possible target.
Assad Sarwar, 28, has admitted purchasing and hiding materials to manufacture an explosive device designed to have the ‘hallmark of an al-Qaeda attack’. But he insists that the plan, devised with co-defendant Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 27, was intended as a publicity stunt against foreign policy and did not seek to cause carnage. He claims the devise was to be set off in an airport and not on flights between the UK and US.
Giving evidence in his defence at Woolwich Crown Court, Mr Sarwar maintained the use of the volatile chemical hydrogen peroxide in the bottle device was to give the protest authenticity. He claims that the principle target was Heathrow Terminal 3 and has also told the court that he expects to go to jail for a very long time.
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