Israel : Science & Technology

Prominent businessman and community philanthropist Sir Trevor Chinn was a potential target researched by an alleged al-Qaeda cell, a court has heard.

A jury at Manchester Crown Court was told last week that Habib Ahmed, 38, of Cheetham Hill, Manchester, had researched how to make a bomb and had run several Google searches on possible targets.

These included Sir Trevor, chairman of the Israel-Britain Business Council and chair of the Mayor's Fund for London, described in court as someone "close to Tony Blair, who was then Prime Minister".

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