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London man pleads guilty to terrorist plot

A man pleaded guilty to taking part in a plot to murder people in terrorist attacks in Britain and the United States at a London court on Thursday.

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Updated : Nov 19, 2013, 11:17 PM IST

London man pleads guilty to terrorist plot

LONDON: A man pleaded guilty to taking part in a plot to murder people in terrorist attacks in Britain and the United States at a London court on Thursday.

Dhiren Barot, 34, entered the plea at Woolwich Crown Court in southeast London, where he was charged with conspiring with other people between January 1, 2000 and August 4, 2004 to commit murder.

The 34-year-old, wearing a khaki-coloured zip-up sweater and black shirt and sporting a short beard, was calm and showed no emotion.

Prosecutor Edmund Lawson said, "Mr Barot has indicated that he pleads guilty on the basis that count one concerns both the US and the UK."

Lawson said Barot planned to blow up buildings in major US cities, which were "designed to kill as many innocent people as possible", as well as carry out a series of synchronized attacks in Britain.

He said the cornerstone of the plot in Britain involved blowing up three limousines packed with gas cylinders and explosives in underground car parks, but also detonating a radioactive "dirty bomb" intended to cause "injury, fear, terror and chaos".

Lawson asked the judge to recall "that there were plans or proposals that were found by the police on the computer after the arrests of August 2004.

"Being plans for attacks on the International Monetary Fund and World Bank buildings in Washington, the New York Stock Exchange and Citigroup buildings in New York and the Prudential buildings in Newark.

"These being plans... to carry out explosions at those premises with no warning, they were basically designed to kill as many innocent people as possible," he said.

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