A 22-YEAR-OLD Muslim has been convicted of plotting mass murder by blowing up passenger jets.
Adam Khatib, of Wellington Road, in Walthamstow, assisted Abdulla Ahmed Ali, from Walthamstow, who was convicted last month of conspiracy to murder, a jury has found.
He visited the "bomb-factory" owned by Ali at a flat in Forest Road, Walthamstow, had hydrogen peroxide seized from his home, which can be used to make a liquid bomb.
The factory worker also became fascinated with radical Islam as a teenager and visited Lahore in Pakistan with Ali, the trial heard.
Khatib was convicted by a majority of 11 jurors to one today (December 9), following an eight-week trial at Woolwich Crown Court.
Co-defendant Nabeel Hussain, 25, from Chingford, was found guilty of preparing acts of terrorism by meeting Ali twice in 2006.
He was also found guilty of possessing several items - a will, mobile phones and a £25,000 loan application - for use in terrorism.
Shamin Uddin, of Stoke Newington, was cleared of preparing terrorist acts, but was was convicted of possessing a CD related to terrorism.
The convictions mean four Waltham Forest residents have now been convicted of invovement in a jihadist plot to murder hundreds of innocent civilians.
Tanvir Hussain, 28, of Leyton, was in September sentenced to life in prison for conspiracy to murder.
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