Airliner bomb plots revenge for Iraq invasion, court says

Six Britons accused of plotting to blow up at least seven transatlantic airliners recorded martyrdom videos saying the attacks were revenge for the US invasion of Iraq, a London court said on Friday.

In extracts played and read to the jury, the men said their mission was to punish non-Muslims and warned of "floods of martyrdom operations" because governments had ignored the warnings of Osama bin Laden.

"If you think you can go into our lands and do what you are doing in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and keep on supporting those who are fighting against Muslims and think it will not come back on your own doorstep may you have another thing coming," Umar Islam, one of the eight defendants said.