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Three British Muslims yesterday admitted plotting to explode a homemade bomb at the Houses of Parliament in protest at the UK’s role in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The men and two others also admitted conspiring to cause public nuisance by distributing Al Qaeda- style videos threatening suicide bomb attacks in Britain.

But prosecutors claimed they made ‘inherently improbable’ and ‘bogus’ confessions to these charges to distract attention from the main allegations  a plot to blow up airliners flying from Heathrow to major U.S. cities.

They accused the men of being in a gang wanting to kill thousands of passengers by detonating liquid bombs in a wave of mid-air explosions.

A jury at Woolwich Crown Court, South-East London, must still decide if the five men, plus three others, are guilty of an unprecedented suicide bomb conspiracy.

Prosecutor Peter Wright QC said the conspirators were fanatics who believed they would achieve immortality through mass murder.

He said: ‘What they intended was to shock the world, not merely by the nature of the acts but also by the fact that such actions could be committed by apparently ordinary law-abiding citizens.

‘This was part of the message. A statement of the strength of resistance to perceived Muslim oppression.’

The guilty pleas came before prosecution barristers summed up their case as the three-month trial drew to a close.

The eight men face two revised charges of conspiracy to murder, with one specifying that the attacks would involve detonating improvised bombs on aircraft.

In their defence, Ali and Sarwar said they planned to record an internet documentary highlighting injustices against Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon.

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