A US informant, testifying at the trial of seven Britons accused of planning bombings in the UK, told a London court on Friday he had supplied computers to help al Qaeda.
Mohammed Babar, 31, a Pakistan-born American who has admitted terrorism-related offences in New York, also said he had met a number of the accused Britons in Pakistan and southern England and had shown one of them a stash of hidden weapons.
The Old Bailey court has heard how Babar would be the key prosecution witness against the Britons, accused of planning to use ammonium nitrate fertiliser to make bombs for attacks on possible targets such as pubs and clubs.
Babar has admitted in closed US hearings trying to acquire the ingredients for what American authorities call "the British Bomb plot", the court was told. He has been described as the men's accomplice but has immunity against prosecution in the UK.
On Friday he told the jury how he had given computers to one of the suspects, Waheed Mahmood, whom he described as a contact for fellow Britons who wanted to receive training for jihad.
He said he gave Mahmood one computer, which he had stolen from a software firm he was working for, in February 2003 and two more a month later because "the brothers" needed them.
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