Terrorist plot was to blow up seven airliners, court told

The men were "almost ready" to carry out the co-ordinated suicide attacks by smuggling the devices on to seven jets when they were arrested in August 2006, Woolwich crown court was told.

Peter Wright, prosecuting, said two ringleaders, Abdulla Ahmed Ali and Assad Sarwar, acted on directions from masterminds in Pakistan. The plan involved transforming 500ml Lucozade and Oasis bottles into bombs and detonate them in an attack which would "reverberate across the globe", the jury heard.