In Britain, three men have been jailed for life for plotting to murder as suicide bombers. Ibrahim Savant, Arafat Khan and Waheed Zaman, of east London, were convicted of conspiracy to murder by a jury at Woolwich Crown Court after a highly unusual third trial. Mr Justice Holroyde told the trio they would serve a minimum of 20 years for becoming footsoldiers in a wider plot. <br/><br/>The plot's mastermind recruited the men as part of his plan to blow up transatlantic planes with liquid bombs. Sentencing the men, the judge accepted that they had been prepared to blow themselves up. He said in this dreadful conspiracy, the intended role of the footsoldier was to blow himself up and to kill and maim an uncertain but potentially large number of men, women and children.<br/><br/>Abdulla Ahmed Ali, the ringleader, is already serving a life sentence along with five other men, all of whom were arrested in a massive police and MI5 operation in 2006.