On September 7, three British men — Abdulla Ahmed Ali, Assad Sarwar and Tanvir Hussain — were convicted of conspiring in 2006 to bomb seven transatlantic passenger flights, using liquid explosives hidden in drinks bottles. Five others were tried with them. One, Umar Islam, was convicted of conspiracy to murder, but the jury was unable to reach a verdict on three others. The fifth, Donald Stewart-Whyte, was cleared altogether. Yet only a day later, attention was diverted by events closer to home. Police in Northern Ireland discovered a 600-pound bomb in County Armagh, which was thought to be the work of a dissident republican group. In January another bomb was found near an army base in County Down; in March two soldiers were killed when gunmen attacked a base; and in May bomb components were discovered in County Fermanagh. Also on September 8th Neil Lewington, a white supremacist, was jailed in England for planning a terrorism campaign against the “non-British”.

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