Five men have been given life sentences after being found guilty of an al-Qaeda linked plot to launch a series of bomb attacks in Britain.
A British judge told the five at London's Central Criminal Court that they would have to serve a minimum of 35 to 40 years before being considered for parole.
Jurors in the year-long Old Bailey trial heard of plans to target a shopping centre, nightclub and the gas network with a fertiliser bomb.
After 27 days of deliberations, they convicted the five this morning. Two others were found not guilty.
Omar Khyam, 26, Jawad Akbar, 23, and Waheed Mahmood, 34, all from Crawley, West Sussex; Anthony Garcia, 24, of Barkingside, east London and Salahuddin Amin, 31, from Luton, Bedfordshire, had planned to carry out a series of bombings across Britain in revenge for its support of the US following the 11 September attacks.
Their planned targets included the Bluewater shopping centre in Kent, the Ministry of Sound nightclub in central London and the country's gas and electricity network.
Police smashed the plot in 2004 when they found 600kg of ammonium nitrate fertiliser stored in a warehouse in west London.
Some of the gang had been under M15 surveillance.
Information that only came to light after this trial revealed that some of the men had contact with the 7 July London suicide bombers.
The suspected ringleader had meetings with the men before their arrest in 2004.
MI5 did not continue monitoring him as he was not considered a risk.
This information was deliberately kept from the Old Bailey jury for fear of prejudicing their deliberations in relation to the fertiliser bomb plot.
The defendants, all British Muslims, were arrested in March 2004.
