British born Saajid Badat told the New York jury how he met directly with Osama Bin Laden while planning shoe-bomb plot
A British-born al-Qaida operative turned government informant told a New York court how Osama Bin Laden had hugged him and wished him luck on his mission as he plotted to blow up a US passenger jet with convicted shoe bomber, Richard Reid.
Saajid Badat, the key prosecution witness in the trial of Abu Hamza al-Masri, the radical Islamic cleric and former imam of Finsbury Park Mosque, also said that the Canary Wharf tower in London, the US embassy in London and Britain's Ministry of Defence were discussed as possible al-Qaida targets.