Monday, March 12, 2012

UK prosecutors order retrial in airliner plot case

British prosecutors have ordered the retrial of seven men accused of plotting to down trans-Atlantic airliners bound for the U.S. and Canada.

Britain's Crown Prosecution Service said Wednesday it would ask the courts for a second trial after a London jury was unable to agree verdicts on charges related to an alleged plan to bomb jetliners.

Jurors after a five-month trial convicted three men on separate conspiracy to murder charges but were unable to reach a verdict on four. An eighth man was acquitted.

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