BANGLADESH

Two of the nine radical London militants who admitted a plot to detonate a bomb at the London Stock Exchange are Bangladeshi-born.

Their hardline group wanted to send five mail bombs to various targets during the run up to Christmas 2010 and discussed launching a 'Mumbai-style' atrocity, the nine admitted at Woolwich Crown Court on Wednesday. They will be sentenced next week.

The British daily The Telegraph says there is a pair of Bangladeshis in the group, Mohammad Chowdhury, 21, and Shah Rahman, 28, from London.

A hit list found on one of the men listed the London mayor Boris Johnson, two rabbis, the American Embassy and the stock exchange.

In Nov 2010, detective police started tracking Mohammad and Rahman.

The group was made of nine - the London duo, three from Cardiff and four from Stoke. Though no firm dates were set and no homemade bombs created, London police said the defendants had the resources to do it.

Police said it had caught them before they could fix a date for their attack.

The four men from Stoke, who are Pakistanis, talked about leaving homemade bombs in the toilets of city pubs and discussed travelling abroad for terror training.

They also discussed how to make a pipe bomb.

The terrorists met each other through various hardcore Islamic groups of which they were members and communicated over the internet, through mobile phones and at meetings in parks to avoid the police eyes.

Chowdhury, and Rahman admitted planning to plant an improvised explosive device (IED) in the toilets of the London Stock Exchange.