UK bomb suspects “planned shopping mall blast”
Seven Britons accused of planning bomb attacks discussed blowing up one of the country’s largest shopping malls and “the biggest nightclub in London,” a court heard on Wednesday. Police surveillance officers overheard some of the suspects praising the Madrid bombings of March 2004, talking about detonators and considering attacks on Britain’s gas, electricity or water supplies, prosecutor David Waters said. London’s Old Bailey criminal court heard allegations that Pakistani militants had tried to buy a “dirty” radiological bomb from the Russian mafia in a plot that never came to fruition. Full Story