Wife of airline bomb plotter cleared of terrorism charge

Published: 12:23PM GMT 05 Mar 2010

Cossor Ali was privileged by a jury at Inner London Crown Court following a three-week hearing Photo: PA

Cossor Ali, 28, was privileged by a jury at Inner London Crown Court following a three-week trial.

He father was found guilty last Sep over the foiled militant tract to blow up transatlantic airliners.

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As she was cleared, Mrs Ali cried ""thank you, appreciate you, appreciate you"" afterwards fled the courtroom.

During the trial, prosecutors argued that Mrs Ali knew her father programmed mass attempted murder by targeting newcomer jets but unsuccessful to discuss it police.

But the jury believed Mrs Ali"s counterclaim that she did not know anything about it.

Richard Whittam QC, prosecuting, argued that she began to sympathise with her husband"s nonconformist beliefs.

In an entrance that she done in a cover in 2005 when she was watchful for Abdulla Ahmed Ali to lapse from Pakistan, she wrote: "I am flourishing some-more and some-more trustworthy to the means for that you are essay for, and the reason for that we are apart.

"I goal and urge Allah grants your instruct and gives you the top turn of Shahada (martyrdom)."

The charge additionally pronounced she knew her father programmed to lift out a apprehension conflict given he wrote his will in Mar 2004.

The will stated: "We know with full faith that we are going to die so let us target high and essay for the majority appropriate genocide i.e. shahada (martyrdom), and let us do the majority appreciative help to Allah and have the biggest sacrifice, quarrel with the life, tongue and resources in the trail of Allah."

Police found records that Abdulla Ahmed Ali had done whilst listening to lectures on jihad, that had his wife"s fingerprints on them, the probity heard.

Islamic nonconformist books were additionally found in their one-bedroom prosaic in Walthamstow, easterly London.

And Abdulla Ahmed Ali done a self-murder video for recover after the transatlantic explosve plot, in that he in jeopardy some-more attacks.

But when she was arrested in Aug 2006, Mrs Ali detonate in to tears and denied all believe of the tract in a military interview.

She pronounced she thought her father had paid for a powdered drink, Tang, from Pakistan since he was building his own product.

In actuality this was to be used to colour liquid explosives so they looked similar to soft drinks.

Mrs Ali, who had a assuage upbringing in Walthamstow, told the probity she felt her temperament was being "erased" at the hands of an violent father and his despotic Muslim family after their matrimony in 2003.

She told jurors that he once strike her so tough that imprints of his fingers were left on her face.

She additionally pronounced Ali forced her to wear a veil, even giving her a "love bite" on the impertinence so she "wouldn"t forget" to cover her face.

Mrs Ali"s father Mohammed Anwar told reporters outward court: "The law has won and probity prevails. We are beholden to the jury for returning a unanimous verdict.

"We have suffered as a family over the last 3 and half years for the actions of a little people with whom we have zero in common."