Three British Muslims were jailed on Friday for planning what a court heard was an Al-Qaeda-backed plot to carry out a string of bombings that they hoped would rival 9/11 and the 2005 London attacks. Ringleader Irfan Naseer received a life sentence, his right-hand man Irfan Khalid was jailed for 18 years and co-conspirator Ashik Ali was jailed for 15 years by a judge at Woolwich Crown Court in southeast London.

The arrest of two men on suspicion of an plot with Al-Qaeda backing to attack a Canadian passenger train has rattled the local Muslim community. Canada has thus far been spared the terror attacks inflicted on its neighbor to the south, but some recent foiled plots have raised concern that the Muslim community here is one tragic incident away from a potential backlash. "The shock has been tremendous in the community," Yusuf Badat, an imam and head of the Islamic Foundation of Toronto, said of the revelations earlier this week of the train plot.

By Euan Rocha and Alastair Sharp TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian police have arrested two men and charged them with plotting to derail a Toronto-area passenger train in an operation that they say was backed by al Qaeda elements in Iran. "Had this plot been carried out, it would have resulted in innocent people being killed or seriously injured," Royal Canadian Mounted Police official James Malizia told reporters on Monday.

By Susan Cornwell and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers asked on Sunday why the FBI had failed to spot the danger from one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, and they complained it was one of a series of cases in which someone the agency had investigated had later taken part in attacks.