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Plot to hit UK with dirty bomb and exploding limos Man admits plan to cause 'injury, terror and chaos' with synchronised strikes Rosie Cowan, crime correspondent Friday October 13, 2006 <http://www.guardian.co.uk> The Guardian A British Muslim yesterday admitted plotting mass murder through a series of terrorist outrages in the UK and the US that were "designed to kill as many innocent people as possible". In one of the few major successes for anti-terrorist investigators since September 11, Dhiran Barot, 34, also admitted planning to use a radioactive dirty bomb in the UK that would have caused "injury, fear, terror and chaos", a court heard. Among the other targets for the synchronised bombings were landmark financial institutions in New York and Washington. Another of his plans involved blowing up three limousines, packed with flammable gas cylinders and explosives, in underground car parks somewhere in Britain. The locations were not specified. Prosecutors told Woolwich crown court how Barot, of Willesden, north-west London, was arrested in August 2004 and how details of the plans to target a series of high-profile buildings were found on a computer. Edmund Lawson QC, for the crown, said the buildings included the International Monetary Fund and World Bank buildings in Washington, the New York stock exchange and Citigroup headquarters in New York, and the Prudential premises in Newark, New Jersey. "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," said Mr Lawson, outlining the basis of Barot's plea. The plan to detonate limousines full of explosives and gas cylinders - the "gas limos project" - was to form the "main cornerstone" of a series of attacks in the UK, added the prosecutor. Kenyan-born Barot, who moved to Britain with his Indian parents as a child and is believed to have converted to Islam as an adult, also wanted to set off a dirty bomb made up of radioactive material. Mr Lawson said that, according to expert evidence, this would have been unlikely to cause fatalities by itself, but was designed to affect about 500 people, and raise widespread panic and social disruption. "The project was, on its face, designed to achieve a number of further and collateral objectives so as to cause injury, fear, terror and chaos." Mr Lawson said three additional projects, including the dirty bomb plan, were designed to be executed in a "synchronised, concurrent and back-to-back way" with the main gas limos project. "The gas limos project was supplemented by three other projects which were presented for consideration, the first being as it was described the 'rough presentation for radiation or dirty bomb project'," said the QC. "The defendant's expressed preference was that the radiation project was designed to be an independent project on its own." The crown did not dispute claims from the defence that no funding had been received for the plots, nor had any of what would have been the necessary vehicles or bomb-making equipment been acquired. Armed police stood guard outside the courtroom and prison officers surrounded Barot as he appeared in the dock behind high transparent screens. He had a short beard and was wearing a khaki-coloured zip-up sweater, black shirt and jeans. The court clerk said: "On count one of this indictment you are charged with conspiracy to murder. The particulars of the offence being that on diverse days between January 1 2000 and August 4 2004, you conspired together with other persons unknown to murder other persons. Do you plead guilty or not guilty?" Barot stared intently ahead and showed no emotion as he answered: "I plead guilty." Mr Lawson said Barot had indicated that he pleaded guilty in respect of count one against him, which concerned both the US and the UK. Barot had also faced 12 other charges: one of conspiracy to cause public nuisance, seven of making a record of information for terrorist purposes, and four of possessing a record of information for terrorist purpose. Following the defendant's guilty plea, the judge, Mr Justice Butterfield, ordered all 12 to lie on file. He will sentence Barot at a later date. Mr Lawson said that by pleading guilty, Barot "makes no admission with regard to the involvement of any of his seven co-defendants in the conspiracy". Seven other men, who deny all charges against them, are due to face trial next year. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? 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