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Three men admit bomb plot charges | Three men admit bomb plot charges |
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Three men accused of plotting to blow up transatlantic planes have admitted to conspiring to cause explosions. | Three men accused of plotting to blow up transatlantic planes have admitted to conspiring to cause explosions. |
Abdulla Ahmed Ali, Assad Sarwar and Tanvir Hussain also admitted conspiring to cause a public nuisance by making videos threatening bombings. | |
Two other defendants, Ibrahim Savant, and Umar Islam, also pleaded guilty to the public nuisance charges. | |
The Woolwich Crown Court jury has yet to rule on conspiracy to murder charges which the five and three others deny. | |
The men deny two charges, which have been amended, of conspiracy to murder between January 1 and August 11 2006. | |
One specifies the attacks would have involved the detonation of improvised bombs on passenger aircraft. | |
Prosecutors claim the men planned to detonate home-made bombs disguised as soft drinks on passenger jets flying from Heathrow to North American cities. |