BA worker found guilty of plotting to blow up plane

A JURY convicted a former British Airways computer specialist of plotting with US-born extremist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki to blow up an airplane.

Rajib Karim, a 31-year- old Bangladeshi man, was convicted of four counts of engaging in preparation for terrorist attacks. He had already pleaded guilty to other, lesser, terrorism offences.

Karim used some of the most sophisticated methods yet seen to encrypt messages sent to his conspirators, detectives said.