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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22841573

Six men from the West Midlands have been jailed for up to 19-and-a-half years each for planning to bomb an English Defence League (EDL) rally.

Omar Khan, Jewel Uddin, Mohammed Hasseen, Mohammed Saud, Zohaib Ahmed and Anzal Hussain had all admitted terrorism offences in April.

Five of the men took a bomb, knives and sawn-off shotguns to the rally.

But the plotters arrived after the EDL event - held last June in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire - had ended.

Carnage, thankfully, avoided .....

At the Old Bailey, Khan, Uddin and Ahmed were sentenced to 19-and-a-half years in jail, with a five-year extension on licence.

Hasseen, Hussain and Saud were jailed for 18 years and nine months, with a five-year extension on licence.

Extended sentences, introduced in England and Wales last year, mean offenders serve at least two thirds of their main sentence in custody. After release, they are on licence in the community for the rest of their sentence plus the extension part.

Appropriately severe sentences .....