7 planes targeted in '06 plot, court told

Details of the North America-bound flight schedules and information about baggage restrictions at Heathrow were on a computer memory stick found in the pocket of one of the alleged ringleaders, Ahmed Abdullah Ali, 27, when he was arrested, the prosecution said. Wright also showed the jury a small address book that authorities say was found in Ali's possession that contained lists of items investigators believe were the components needed to assemble liquid bombs.

"Clean batteries, disguise . . . drink bottles . . . check time to fill each bottle," the list said. "Decide on which battery to use for D. Small is best. . . . Select date. Five days before. All link up, prepare. . . .

"One drink use. Other keep in pocket maybe will not get through . . . plus keys and chewing gum . . . cameras take. The drinks that you should drink should be different flavr [sic]."

Potentially explosive quantities of hydrogen peroxide, the prosecutor said, were to be mixed with a fruit-flavored drink powder, then injected by hypodermic needle into the bottom of plastic drink bottles to make it appear as though the bottles were unopened when they were taken through security.

Small AA batteries, he said, were to be emptied and refilled with a homemade detonating compound, which would then be set off with something such as a disposable camera flash.

Ali was arrested when he drove to a parking lot near his house to meet with another man authorities have identified as one of the ringleaders, defendant Assad Sarwar, 28.

The other defendants are Tanvir Hussain, 27; Mohammed Gulzar, 26; Ibrahim Savant, 27; Arafat Khan, 26; Waheed Zaman, 23; and Umar Islam, 29.

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