Bomb plot 'a publicity stunt'.THE leader of an alleged terrorist gang accused of planning mid-air carnage dismissed the plot as a "publicity stunt A publicity stunt is a planned event designed to attract the public's attention to the promoters or their causes. Publicity stunts can be professionally organised or set up by amateurs. Amateur stunts can be trivial or deathly serious. ". Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 27, admitted conspiring to explode a bomb at the Houses of Parliament Houses of Parliament: see Westminster Palace. as a political protest. But he told Woolwich Crown Court Woolwich Crown Court, located at 2 Belmarsh Road, Thamesmead is one of twelve Crown Courts serving Greater London. It stands adjacent to both HM Prison Belmarsh and Belmarsh Magistrate's Court. that neither he nor two other men involved in the plan wanted to kill or hurt anyone. Ali said home-made suicide videos would be combined with internet footage to make an anti-government documentary. Giving evidence in his defence, Ali said the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan drove him to act. He said: "We did not want to kill or injure anyone. Something small enough to cause a large bang, maybe some smoke. Something that would be considered serious and credible, something to generate that mass media attention." Ali is accused alongside seven other men of a terrorist conspiracy to murder thousands in attacks on transatlantic planes. All eight deny two charges of conspiring to murder and to endanger aircraft. CAPTION(S): Abdulla Ahmed Ali |
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