Details emerge in terror plot

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Three men were convicted on Monday in a British court of plotting to blow up at least seven planes travelling from London to the US and Canada. Prosecutors exposed links between the plotters and a mastermind in Pakistan. But as Laura Lynch reports, the story behind the court case is one of both conflict and cooperation between American and British authorities.

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