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British Muslims 'planned to kill thousands by bombing seven transatlantic airliners in one go'

A British terror gang plotted to use liquid explosives to blow up transatlantic passenger jets in mid-flight, a court heard today. Eight men planned to smuggle bombs disguised as soft drinks on to flights from Heathrow to the United States and Canada and detonate them on board, Woolwich crown court was told. It would have caused a civilian death toll on an "almost unprecedented scale" and a "global impact".

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Sanity has lost out to legal dogma [UK]

At the last roll of the dice, sanity has lost out to legal dogma. The Government's long-drawn-out battle to deport suspected foreign terrorists is effectively over. Yesterday's two judgments by the Court of Appeal make it extremely unlikely that Britain will ever manage to deport Abu Qatada and other foreign terror suspects, a point tacitly acknowledged by the Home Office's decision to drop its attempts to deport a further ten Libyans in addition to the two whose appeals were successful yesterday.

Abu Qatada, a radical Muslim cleric described as al-Qaeda's “ambassador in Europe”, is wanted in Jordan, where he has already been convicted of terrorism offences.

These people came in through Britain's leaky borders and were allowed to stay, in some cases, because of wilful sloppiness by the immigration authorities. Now our human rights laws mean that we are stuck with them. We cannot keep them under arrest much longer after these rulings. So they will soon be free to wreak what havoc they will...

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