Jet terror plot foiled after 7/7

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A British Muslim linked to the fertiliser terror cell was behind the plot - details of which could not be reported until Monday because of the reporting restrictions surrounding that case.

In the wake of the July 7 bombings, he conducted negotiations to buy rocket-propelled grenades and surface to air missiles when he was arrested in a sting operation by anti-terror officers.

Plans for an electricity substation - which, if bombed, could have caused massive blackouts across London - were also found at his home.

Kazi Rahman, a 29-year-old plumber, was jailed for nine years last year after he admitted a charge of trying to purchase terrorist weaponry.

He was a contact of Mohammed Junaid Babar, the "supergrass" in the fertiliser trial, and called himself Haleem or Abdul Salim.

Once allegedly a recruiter for the Taliban in Pakistan, he was said to have left a cache of weapons buried near a university in Lahore, which Babar claimed to have offered to Waheed Mahmood, one of the fertiliser suspects.

Rahman was caught by anti-terror officers trying to buy three Uzi submachine guns, silencers and 3,000 rounds of ammunition following an elaborate sting operation at South Mimms motorway services in Hertfordshire.

He had been in negotiations to buy even more potentially deadly weapons - surface to air missiles and rocket-propelled grenades for use against UK targets. Police believe he could have been plotting to shoot down a passenger jet.

Rahman pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey last year to a charge of attempting to possess property, specifically three Uzis, three silencers, nine magazines and 3,000 rounds of ammunition, intended for use for the purposes of terrorism, contrary to section 16(a) of the Terrorism Act 2000.