Three Birmingham men have gone on trial accused of planning a bomb campaign prosecutors say may have been bigger than the 7 July London attacks.
The men are accused of planning a mass suicide bomb campaign that could have led to eight rucksack bombs being used against multiple targets in the UK.
The accused are Irfan Naseer, 31, Irfan Khalid and Ashik Ali, both 27.
The men, appearing at Woolwich Crown Court, deny engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorist acts.
The terror charges relate to the period between December 2010 and September 2011.
'Suicide videos'Mr Naseer, from the Sparkhill area of Birmingham, and Mr Khalid, from the Sparkbrook area, are also accused of preparing for acts of terrorism by receiving training in Pakistan.
End Quote Brian Altman QC Prosecution barristerThe defendants were proposing to detonate up to eight rucksack bombs in a suicide attack "
The jury were told by prosecutors that the pair had recorded suicide videos in Pakistan that would have been played to the world had their plot been completed.
Opening the prosecution case, Brian Altman QC said the three men had been supported by other plotters from the Birmingham area who had helped them raise money by posing as charity workers.
The men had set up a bomb factory and their plans were beginning to advance when they were arrested, Mr Altman said.
He said the men are "jihadists" and "extremists" who were influenced by an al-Qaeda affiliated preacher, Anwar al-Awlaki.
The preacher was killed in a drone strike shortly after the arrest of the three men.
Mr Altman said: "The police successfully disrupted a plan to commit an act or acts of terrorism on a scale potentially greater than the London bombings in July 2005 had it been allowed to run its course.
"The defendants were proposing to detonate up to eight rucksack bombs in a suicide attack and/or to detonate bombs on timers in crowded areas in order to cause mass deaths and casualties."
'Stealing money'It is alleged that, while in Pakistan, Mr Naseer and Mr Khalid received training in how to use weapons and how to make bombs and poisons.
They are also accused of having made suicide videos while they were there.
The men are said to have returned to the UK in July 2011, and it is claimed the group then began trying to make home-made bombs, using a flat in Sparkbrook as their base.
Mr Altman called the trio "senior members of a home-grown terror cell".
The group have also been accused of making bogus charity collections in Birmingham.
The two causes they gathered money for received only a fraction of the funds they had collected, prosecutors say, while the rest was intended to pay for the planned attack.
Mr Altman said the men were "despicably stealing money from their own community donated to charity".
The trial continues.
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