The UK government has just released the names of the eleven suspects charged with anti-terrorism charges relating to the foiled terror plot earlier this month.
Eight face a charge of conspiracy to murder. One woman has been released without charge.
The counter-terrorism division arm of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), the UK justice ministry's criminal charges agency, named 11 individuals in relation to an alleged plot to detonate explosives on board aircraft.
Susan Hemming, head of the CPS counter-terrorism division says: "Eight individuals have been charged with two offences relating to an alleged plot to manufacture and smuggle the component parts of improvised explosive devices onto aircraft and assemble and detonate them on board. Those individuals have been charged with conspiracy to murder and the new offence of preparing acts of terrorism contrary to Section five of the Terrorism Act 2006.
"In addition, three have been charged with other offences under the Terrorism Act 2000. One has been charged with possession of articles useful to a person preparing an act of terrorism and two with failing to disclose information of material assistance in preventing an act of terrorism."
One woman has been released from custody without charge and 11 other individuals are still in custody and remain under active investigation.
Those charged are as follows:
Ahmed Abdullah Ali (Also known as: Abdullah Ali Ahmed Khan), Tanvir Hussain, Umar Islam (formerly Brian Young), Arafat Waheed Khan, Assad Ali Sarwar, Adam Khatib, Ibrahim Savant and Waheem Zaman were all charged with conspiracy to murder and the intention of committing acts of terrorism by smuggling the component parts of improvised explosive devices onto aircraft and to assemble and detonate them on board.
An unnamed 17-year old male, along with Cossar Ali and Mehran Hussain, was charged with providing material assistance to the eight charged with conspiracy to murder.
Source: FlightGlobal.com
