AS five members of a UK al Qaida linked cell begin their life sentences for plotting to kill innocent people by using fertiliser, will they, their supporters or other members of al Qaida consider why their plot failed and why they got caught?

They will consider every angle except the more obvious one, that the murders planned and carried out by al Qaida in the name of God are not the will of the Muslim God, nor of any other deity. Or that God might be big enough and powerful enough to fight his own battles.

CT Riley, Spennymoor, Co Durham.