Three jailed in Morocco for al-Qaida plot

Three Saudi Arabians have been jailed for 10 years by a Moroccan court for leading an al-Qaida plot to attack British and US warships.

The three, said by Moroccan authorities to have been firmly enmeshed in al-Qaida, were arrested on May 12, last year in what prosecutors contended was a plot to sail a dinghy loaded with explosives from Morocco into the Strait of Gibraltar to attack US and British warships.