Airline plot trio get life terms

The three men who plotted to use liquid bombs to blow up flights from the UK to North America have been given life sentences with minimum terms of up to 40 years.



The Ringleader Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 28, was jailed for at least 40 years.



His accomplice Assad Sarwar was given 36 years and Tanvir Hussain, 32.



The trial heard that at the time of his arrest, Ahmed Ali, of Walthamstow, east London, had identified seven US and Canada-bound flights that were to be attacked within a two-and-a-half-hour period.



The flights due to be targeted were from London\'s Heathrow airport to San Francisco, Washington, New York, Chicago, Toronto and Montreal.



Home Secretary Alan Johnson said the sentences reflected the severity of this horrendous plot to kill and maim thousands of people.