The British al-Qaida terrorist Dhiren Barot plotted to carry out a series of "massive explosions" in the UK and US with the aim of killing thousands of people, a court was told today.
Barot, of Willesden, north-west London, last month pleaded guilty to conspiracy to murder at Woolwich crown court.
Today - the first day of a two-day hearing prior to sentencing - the prosecution gave the court fuller details of the 34-year-old's plans to carry out attacks, including setting off a radioactive "dirty bomb" in the UK.