LONDON, 14 July 2007 — The wheels of British justice against the threat of terrorism continue to roll unabated with yet another round of convictions and acquittals. Yesterday, a jury at the Old Bailey convicted Londoner, Yassin Nassari, 28, of possessing documents and data that could be used in an act of terrorism.

Nassari was arrested in May 2006 at Luton Airport after his bags were searched and customs officials found blueprints for a missile in his luggage. His wife Bouchra El Hor, 24, a Dutch national, was found not guilty of failing to disclose information about her husband which could have prevented an act of terrorism.

The couple were stopped when they were returning to the UK from Holland. Police later raided Nassari’s home in Ealing in West London, where they impounded a computer and other documents. The hard drive of the computer contained plans for building a missile similar to those used in Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine.

The crown prosecutor alleged that a letter from Bouchra El Hor to Nassari appeared to be encouraging him to become a terrorist. In the letter she allegedly pledged that her baby son would follow if her husband died a martyr. An extract from the letter allegedly read: “The moment has come that you and I have to separate for the sake of Allah.”

The conviction coincides with yesterday’s White House summit of US intelligence chiefs who discussed a confidential report entitled “Al-Qaeda better positioned to strike the West” that concluded that Al-Qaeda is now stronger than at any time since the 9/11 attack in 2001. There was particular concern that European converts to Islam could be used to launch such operations.

Earlier yesterday, Scotland Yard’s counterterrorism unit released Marwa Asha, 27, a laboratory technician, who was arrested with her husband, Dr. Mohammed Asha, 26, of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, on the M6 motorway in Cheshire on June 30.

They were arrested in connection with the failed car bomb attempts in central London and the blazing Jeep Cherokee attack on the arrivals terminal at Glasgow Airport on June 30.

Five other people, most of them doctors or trainee doctors working in the National Health Service (NHS), have been detained.

Another man, Dr. Haneef Mohammed, a cousin of two of the detainees, Kafeel Ahmed and Sabeel Ahmed, has also been detained in Brisbane in Australia in connection with the plot.

Police have thus far charged only one of the suspects, Dr. Bilal Abdullah, one of the alleged terrorists involved in the Glasgow Airport incident. He will appear at the Old Bailey on July 27 charged with attempted murder and conspiracy to cause explosions.

The other, Kafeel Ahmed, an aeronautical engineer, suffered 90-degree burns after setting himself alight during the attempted suicide bombing. He is under guard at the specialized burns unit at the Royal Glasgow Infirmary, but doctors do not expect him to survive his injuries, which has affected most of the skin on his torso.