Article: Police watched the plan unfold, then pounced

The preparations were meticulous, the bombs potentially deadly. But the conspiracy was doomed from the start. By Cahal Milmo Diary held plan for the attacks

THE EMAIL sent by Assad Sarwar from an internet cafe in High Wycombe to an account in Pakistan in the summer of 2006 was meant to sound innocuous. With its reference to "Calvin Klein aftershave" costing "80 quid", its contents were crafted to meld seamlessly into the blizzard of data sent across cyberspace without attracting undue attention.

In reality, what looked like email trivia was one of dozens of coded updates sent by Sarwar, a restaurant delivery driver and the quartermaster of the liquid bombs plot, to the overseas jihadist ...

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