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UK bomb plot conspirators sentenced to 136 years in prison

June 15, 2007 02:49:00 PM

Seven men who conspired with British al Qaeda leader Dhiren Barot to launch attacks in Britain and the US were sentenced to a combined 136 years in prison [London Metropolitan Police press...

May 16, 2007 10:50:00 AM

A panel of three judges on the London Court of Appeal Criminal Division reduced the sentence of convicted bomb plotter Dhiren Barot from a minimum of 40 years to life to 30 years to life Wednesday because...

April 3, 2007 08:34:00 PM

Dhiren Barot , a British man who pleaded guilty in October to planning a series of bombs on US and British targets, filed an appeal in Londons Court of Appeal Criminal Division Tuesday. Barot...

November 7, 2006 09:29:00 AM

Dhiren Barot , a British man who pleaded guilty to planning a series of bombs on US and British targets, was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday. Barot was accused of planning several attacks, including...

October 12, 2006 11:28:00 AM

Dhiren Barot, a British man accused of planning a series of bombs on US and British targets, pleaded guilty on Thursday to conspiracy to murder for his role in the Gas Limos Project bombing scheme and...

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WWI gas attack on Canadians led to first chemical weapons ban

On April 24, 1915, the German army used chlorine gas against Canadian troops at Ypres. Gas was later employed by British and French forces against the Germans. Learn more about early efforts by the Red Cross to ban chemical weapons and review the June 1925 Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare.

Library of Congress created

On April 24, 1800, U.S. President John Adams approved $5,000 to fund the establishment of the U.S. Library of Congress.

Learn more about the history of the U.S. Library of Congress.