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British find 3 guilty in plot to fell jetliners

Al-Qaida hatched '06 plan that targeted flights to U.S.

By HENRY CHU AND SEBASTIAN ROTELLA LOS ANGELES TIMES

Posted: September 8, 2009 at 5:05 a.m.

Three young Britons were declared guilty Monday in a London court of planning to blow up trans-Atlantic planes in an al-Qaida terrorist plot that could have killed thousands of people.

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