2004. Shujah Mahmood and Nabeel Hussain were found not guilty of all charges. The defendants found guilty were sentenced to life imprisonment. Omar Khyam was given a minimum term of 20 years, Anthony Garcia 20 years, Jawad Akbar 17½ years, Waheed Mahmood 20 years and Salahuddin Amin 17½ years. Momin Khawaja was found guilty in Canada’s first terrorism trial on charges of helping to develop bomb detonators, possession of explosives, helping to finance terrorist activity, receiving terrorist training and facilitating terrorism. On March 12, 2009 he was sentenced to 10.5 years in prison which was later increased to Life-24. Background An organisation associated with the attacks is the group al-Muhajiroun. According to the BBC, some of the perpetrators became interested in jihad during the time they were involved with al-Muhajiroun. According to Professor Anthony Glees, director of the Brunel Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies – The fertiliser bomb trial has given us the smoking-gun evidence that groups like al-Muhajiroun have had an important part in radicalising young British Muslims, and that this can create terrorists. Al-Muhajiroun was disbanded by its founder Omar Bakri Mohammed in 2004. Shortly after 7 July 2005 London bombings, Prime Minister Tony Blair "announced the group would be banned as part of a series of measures against condoning or glorifying terrorism." References External links New York Times 13 July 2005. 2004 Times newspaper article The Scotsman Web site 15 July 2005. BBC News Article 22 June 2006 Channel 4 News Report 30 March 2006 UK fertiliser bomb plot BBC News "Could 7/7 have been prevented?" UK Cabinet Office, Intelligence and Security Committee, London, May 2009 2004 in England Islamic terrorism in the United Kingdom Counterterrorism in the United Kingdom Police raids on Islamists