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Plot To Hit UK With Dirty Bomb And Exploding LimosFri, October 13, 2006Source: Guardian UnlimitedA British Muslim yesterday admitted plotting mass murder through a series of terrorist outrages in the UK and the US that were 'designed to kill as many innocent people as possible'.Man admits plan to cause 'injury, terror and chaos' with synchronised strikes. A British Muslim yesterday admitted plotting mass murder through a series of terrorist outrages in the UK and the US that were "designed to kill as many innocent people as possible". Among the other targets for the synchronised bombings were landmark financial institutions in New York and Washington. Another of his plans involved blowing up three limousines, packed with flammable gas cylinders and explosives, in underground car parks somewhere in Britain. The locations were not specified. Prosecutors told Woolwich crown court how Barot, of Willesden, north-west London, was arrested in August 2004 and how details of the plans to target a series of high-profile buildings were found on a computer. Edmund Lawson QC, for the crown, said the buildings included the International Monetary Fund and World Bank buildings in Washington, the New York stock exchange and Citigroup headquarters in New York, and the Prudential premises in Newark, New Jersey. "These being plans ... to carry out explosions at those premises with no warning, they were basically designed to kill as many innocent people as possible," said Mr Lawson, outlining the basis of Barot's plea. The plan to detonate limousines full of explosives and gas cylinders - the "gas limos project" - was to form the "main cornerstone" of a series of attacks in the UK, added the prosecutor. Kenyan-born Barot, who moved to Britain with his Indian parents as a child and is believed to have converted to Islam as an adult, also wanted to set off a dirty bomb made up of radioactive material. |