(CNN) -- Three Britons recruited as suicide bombers in an al Qaeda-inspired 2006 plot to blow up airliners as they were flying across the Atlantic were sentenced Monday to life in prison, with a minimum of 20 years.
Ibrahim Savant, 29, Arafat Waheed Khan, 29, and Waheed Zaman, 26, were convicted last week of conspiracy to murder as suicide bombers. They and other conspirators planned to detonate liquid explosives stowed aboard planes in soft-drink bottles, prosecutors said.
