Four men were convicted Monday of plotting to bomb London's public transport system July 21, 2005 — an attack with deliberate echoes of suicide bombings that killed 52 commuters on the network two weeks earlier.The jury was still deliberating on two co-defendants.
The men were accused of attempting to detonate explosives-laden backpacks on three subway trains and a bus in a mirror image of the July 7, 2005, attacks. The devices — made from a volatile mix of hydrogen peroxide and flour — failed to explode, and no one was injured.
A jury unanimously found Muktar Said Ibrahim, 29; Yassin Omar, 26; and Ramzi Mohammed, 25, guilty of conspiracy to murder.
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