Canadian jailed for British bomb plot

A Canadian was jailed for 10 years for plotting with a group of British Muslims to bomb buildings and natural gas pipes in the UK.

Momim Khawaja was convicted last autumn of financing and facilitating terrorism.

He is the first person to be sentenced under Canadian anti-terrorism laws passed after the September 11 attacks.

A Canadian-born Muslim of Pakistani descent, Khawaja was accused of collaborating with a group of Britons of Pakistani descent in a failed 2004 plan to attack London’s Ministry of Sound nightclub, a shopping centre and electrical and gas facilities..

Five alleged co-conspirators were convicted in London in 2007 and jailed for life.