Shunning links with extremist groups to avoid attracting attention, IT worker Rajib Karim, 31, allegedly planned to blow up an aircraft heading to the US.
Woolwich crown court heard that Karim came from Bangladesh in 2006 planning a "spectacular attack" and went deep undercover joining a gym, playing football and hiding his extreme views.
The sleeper joined BA in 2007 working and living in Newcastle. Prosecutor Jonathan Laidlaw said the post "through a terrorist's eyes" was "just about as good a job as could be obtained". After gaining access to computer systems, he and his brother Tehzeeb started passing information to radical al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen.
In a series of emails, al-Awlaki told Karim to stay in his job and wait for "a breakthrough" until on February 10 last year the cleric said: "Our highest priority is the US. Anything there even on a smaller scale compared to what we could do in the UK would be our choice. So is it possible to get a package or a person with a package on board a flight to the US?"
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