A plot by Al Qaeda terrorists to escape from a British jail in a hijacked helicopter has been foiled.Nine Muslim inmates planned to kidnap the jail imam during prayers with weapons hidden in the mosque at Full Sutton prison in East Yorkshire.
Their plan was to then use the imam as a human shield as they made their way to the jail's sports field.
Once there, accomplices from the outside were to pick them up in a helicopter hijacked at gunpoint after being hired for 'business'.
Acting on a tip-off, wardens at the jail swooped on the inmates hours before the escape attempt was due to begin on Friday.
The nine men - who included convicted terrorists - were immediately segregated from other inmates and will now be transferred to different prisons.
The jail's imam is not believed to have been involved in the plot.
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