LONDON, July 9 (Reuters) Three men were convicted today of plotting failed attacks on London's transport system in July 2005, designed to replicate Islamist suicide bombings two weeks earlier that killed 52 people, British media reported.
The men, Muslims of African origin, would have caused carnage on a similar scale to the deadly 7/7 attacks but, although the detonators on their makeshift bombs fired, the main charges failed to explode, police said.
The jury is still considering verdicts on three other men also accused of conspiracy to murder.
The convictions come just days after two car bombs were found in London and a burning jeep was rammed into Glasgow Airport in Scotland -- botched attacks which Prime Minister Gordon Brown said were associated with al Qaeda.
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The men, Muslims of African origin, would have caused carnage on a similar scale to the deadly 7/7 attacks but, although the detonators on their makeshift bombs fired, the main charges failed to explode, police said.
The jury is still considering verdicts on three other men also accused of conspiracy to murder.
The convictions come just days after two car bombs were found in London and a burning jeep was rammed into Glasgow Airport in Scotland -- botched attacks which Prime Minister Gordon Brown said were associated with al Qaeda.
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