Four men have been found guilty of plotting to carry out suicide bombings on London's transport network on 21 July 2005.

Muktar Said Ibrahim, 29, Yassin Omar, 26, Ramzi Mohammed, 25, and Hussain Osman, 28, were convicted of conspiracy to murder at Woolwich Crown Court.

The jury will continue to consider verdicts on Tuesday for two others, who deny charges against them.

The cell tried to bomb the Tube and a bus, two weeks after the 7/7 attacks.

Majority verdict

The suspects had claimed the bombs were fakes, and their actions had been intended as a protest against the war in Iraq.

After unanimously returning three guilty verdicts against Ibrahim, Omar and Mohammed before lunch, jurors were sent out to continue their deliberations on the three other defendants, Osman, Manfo Kwaku Asiedu, 34, and Adel Yahya, 24.

The judge, Mr Justice Fulford QC, said he would accept a majority verdict of 10 to 2.

They later came back with their verdict on Osman and will continue deliberations on the other two on Tuesday.

Mohammed had targeted a train at Oval station in south London, Omar was on board a train at Warren Street in central London and Osman traveled on a Hammersmith and City line service to Shepherds Bush in west London.

Ibrahim had boarded a bus in Hackney, east London.

The six men have been on trial for six months.

The trial heard that dozens of people would have been killed if the bombs had detonated properly.

The devices were made of chapati flour and a similar hydrogen peroxide mixture used by the men behind the 7 July attacks in which 52 people died.

Mohammed and Ibrahim were captured a week later at a flat in west London.

Omar was arrested in Birmingham after traveling there disguised as a woman in a burka and Osman was detained in Rome and extradited back to Britain.

Nigel Sweeney QC, prosecutor, had told the trial the men chose a date "just 14 days after the carnage of July 7".

But the trial heard evidence that the conspiracy "had been in existence long before the events of July 7" and was not a "hastily-arranged copycat" operation.

Mr Sweeney said: "The failure of those bombs to explode owed nothing to the intention of these defendants, rather it was simply the good fortune of the traveling public that day that they were spared."

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Ramzi Muhammad on the Tube, after his bomb failed to explode