Sir Ken MacDonald, director of public prosecutions for England and Wales told the court:

"I have carefully considered this case with the head of my counter-terrorism division and with counsel. I have today concluded that the prosecution should apply to retry each of these defendants on every count that the recently discharged jury failed to agree upon." 

Read more about The Inside Story of the 2006 Airline Plot by Paul Cruickshank at the Counterterrorism Blog. 

I have spent the last several months co-producing a documentary for "Dateline NBC," along with Richard Greenberg of NBC News, on the 2006 Airline terror plot, widely considered Al Qaeda's most ambitious plot since 9/11. The program will air this coming Monday the 15th on NBC at 10pm Eastern. ["Dateline NBC.]

The plan, authorities alleged, was to explode up to seven airliners en route from Heathrow airport to North American cities. Based on interviews with key officials from the US, Britain, and Pakistan, the documentary will shed significant new light on the genesis of the plot and the unprecedented international investigation that thwarted it. Please tune in! 

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