Britain deserved its own September 11 according to one of the leaders of an al-Qa’eda cell planning a bomb attack, a court heard yesterday.
Omar Khyam from Crawley, West Sussex, suggested hitting pubs, nightclubs and trains in revenge for Britain’s involvement in the Middle East.
Mohammed Babar, who has turned informant on his associates, said he was sitting on the couch in a flat in Lahore, Pakistan, when Khyam told him Britain “needed to be hit.”
Babar told the Old Bailey: “We were talking about the UK and he said the UK needed to be hit. He said 9/11 happened in America and nothing had happened in the UK.
“He said the UK was as responsible as the Americans for what is happening in the Middle East.”
Babar, 31, who was brought up in New York, said they went on to discuss making bombs and possible targets.
“We talked about detonators and transportation. He said we need to hit certain spots like pubs, nightclubs and trains.”
The gang is said to have built up a collection of bomb-making equipment which they stored in a wardrobe in Babar’s flat, where the conversation took place.
The jury has been shown a photograph of Anthony Garcia, from Ilford, Essex, one of the alleged terrorists, posing in front of the wardrobe.
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