British bomb plotters jailed for life
POSTED: 10:38 a.m. EDT, April 30, 2007
Story Highlights
• Five guilty of plotting to bomb UK targets including a nightclub and shopping mall
• The men -- all British citizens -- have been sentenced to life imprisonment
• Ties between the five and the 2005 London bombers can now be revealed
• The year-long trial was Britain's longest terrorism case
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LONDON, England (CNN) -- Five Britons have been jailed for life after being found guilty of plotting to carry out al Qaeda-inspired bomb attacks across Britain on targets ranging from a nightclub to a shopping mall.
The gang planned to use 600 kg (1,300 lb) of fertilizer to make explosives to be used in bombings in revenge for Britain's support for the United States in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, prosecutors said.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/04/30/terror.verdict/index.html
Notice this was a police matter, not a military one.
Carpet bombing random civilians will do nothing to stop terrorism.
Targeted investigation and intel does.