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12/10/2006
Man pleads guilty to 'terrorist plot'
A man has pleaded guilty to conspiring to murder people in a series of bomb attacks in Britain the the US.
Woolwich Crown Court heard that Dhrien Barot, 34, from north London, planned to carry out explosions a number of targets, including the International Monetary Fund and World Bank buildings in Washington, the Citigroup buildings in New York and the New York Stock Exchange and the Prudential buildings in Newark.
The court also heard that the defendant also planned to use a radioactive 'dirty bomb' in one of a series of attacks in the UK.
Barot had also plotted to blow up three limousines "packed" with gas cylinders and explosives in underground car parks in the UK, as part of a series of synchronised attacks, which was known as the Gas Limos Project.
Barot is due to be sentenced on November 1.
(KMcA/SP)
Woolwich Crown Court heard that Dhrien Barot, 34, from north London, planned to carry out explosions a number of targets, including the International Monetary Fund and World Bank buildings in Washington, the Citigroup buildings in New York and the New York Stock Exchange and the Prudential buildings in Newark.
The court also heard that the defendant also planned to use a radioactive 'dirty bomb' in one of a series of attacks in the UK.
Barot had also plotted to blow up three limousines "packed" with gas cylinders and explosives in underground car parks in the UK, as part of a series of synchronised attacks, which was known as the Gas Limos Project.
Barot is due to be sentenced on November 1.
(KMcA/SP)
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