British terrorist planned mass carnage

A British al-Qaida terrorist was jailed for a minimum of 40 years today 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 the UK and his plot was designed to strike “at the very heart of democracy and the security of the state“.