April 30 (Reuters) - Five Britons were found guilty on Monday of plotting a nationwide bombing spree. Here is a chronology of recent terrorism trials in Britain. Feb./March 2003 - Jamaican-born Sheikh Abdullah el-Faisal, a former supporter of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, was convicted of incitement to murder by urging his followers to kill non-believers in a so-called holy war. He was also found guilty of stirring up racial hatred through the use of threatening and abusive words, both in person and through recordings. He was sentenced to nine years in jail. April 2003 - In January 2002 Britain charged two Algerians, Baghdad Meziane and Brahim Benmerzouga, with membership of al Qaeda but the charge was dropped before trial. They were jailed in 2003 for 11 years after being found guilty of raising cash for terrorism, making them the first people with suspected al Qaeda links to be imprisoned in Britain. June 2004 - Kamel Bourgass, aka Nadir Habra, was found guilty of the murder of detective Stephen Oake after Oake and other police had raided his flat in Manchester. The raid, police said, was linked to the discovery of ricin in London. Bourgass was sentenced to 22 years in jail for the murder. In April 2005 he was also found guilty of conspiracy to commit a public nuisance by the use of poisons and/or explosives, but the jury failed to decide on conspiracy to murder charges. April 2005 - Briton Saajid Badat was jailed for 13 years after admitting conspiring with "shoe bomber" Richard Reid to blow up aircraft over the Atlantic. Sept. 2005 - Andrew Rowe, a British convert to Islam, was jailed for 15 years for possessing terrorist materials, including secret codes and a weapons manual. British police called him an "international warrior". March 2006 - Seven Britons -- Anthony Garcia, Jawad Akbar, Omar Khyam, his brother Shujah Mahmood, Waheed Mahmood, Nabeel Hussain, and Salahuddin Amin -- went on trial accused of plotting to bomb clubs, trains and synagogues in England in what police described as Britain's biggest terrorism trial since Sept. 11. Nov. 2006 - A man who admitted a plot to blow up the New York Stock Exchange and carry out attacks in Britain with gas-filled limousines and a "dirty bomb", Dhiren Barot, was jailed for a minimum of 40 years. Jan. 2007 - Trial opened in London of Muktah Said Ibrahim, Manfo Kwaku Asiedu, Hussein Osman, Yassin Hassin Omar, Ramzi Mohammed and Adel Yahya who were charged with conspiracy to murder in plotting an attack on London's transport system in July 2005 using bombs carried in rucksacks.
