Al-Qaida terrorist gets life for plotting carnage

A BRITISH al-Qaida terrorist was jailed for a minimum of 40 years yesterday for plotting death and carnage on a “colossal and unprecedented” scale in massive atrocities on both sides of the Atlantic.

Muslim convert Dhiren Barot, 34, led a conspiracy to murder thousands of “wholly innocent men, women and children” in the United States and Britain and his plot was designed to strike “at the very heart of democracy and the security of the state”.

The sentencing judge, Mr Justice Butterfield, added that if successful, Barot’s murderous plans for a series of September 11-style synchronised terror attacks would have affected “thousands personally, millions indirectly and ultimately the whole nations of the US and the UK”.