2004 financial buildings plot

The 2004 financial buildings plot was a plan led by Dhiren Barot to attack a number of targets in the U.S. and the United Kingdom which is believed to have been approved by al-Qaeda. The evidence against the plotters consisted of home videos, written notes, and files on computers. At the time of the arrests the group had no funding, vehicles, or access to bomb-making equipment.

All eight suspects pleaded guilty in a British court; Barot was sentenced to 40 years in jail. The trials of seven co-defendants began in April 2007 and in June 2007 these seven were sentenced to a total of 136 years in prison.