3 plead to charges in plot that changed air travel (AP)

Courtesy Ytop stories  Mon, 07/14/2008 - 2:10pm

In this undate photo provided by the Metropolitan Police, shows Assad Sarwar.<br /><br />Assad and two other men, accused of plotting to bring down trans-Atlantic passenger jets with liquid explosives, pleaded guilty to planning to set off bombs but maintain they did not seek to destroy airliners, prosecutors said Monday July 14, 2008.<br /><br />(AP Photo/Metropolitan Police, HO)AP - In a case that changed the face of air travel, three men charged with a plot to kill trans-Atlantic airline passengers with bombs in soda bottles admitted Monday they intended to cause explosions.




 

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