UK an al Qaeda target before Bush was President

The BBC reported back in May. Interestingly, the BBC fails to mention the aborted attempt to fly a plane into Parliament on 9/11.

The first concrete sign that the UK had become a target for al-Qaeda type attack was in November 2000 when two British citizens of Bangladeshi origin were arrested in Birmingham. One of those arrested was convicted of explosives related offences and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment.

Both of these attacks predate Afghanistan and Iraq while the first even predates Bush's presidentcy.

The BBC has more on the man behind the plot. Google Moinul Abedin for more information.