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Three men have been sentenced to life in prison in Britain for plotting a series of bombing on airliners between the UK and the US or Canada. Abdulla Ahmed Ali, Assad Sarwar and Tanvir Hussain must serve at least 40, 36 and32 years respectively. The plots were well advanced when police arrested the men in 2006, the judge noted: “Had this conspiracy not been interrupted, a massive loss of life would almost certainly have resulted – and if the detonation was over land, the number of victims would have been even greater still.” He said in his concluding remarks that while the plot was directed from Pakistan the men in Britain where high-level “executives.” BBC, Times, UK and Reuters