Taliban bomb maker faces life sentence

A Taliban bomb maker who planned to carry out a ‘spectacular’ on the streets of Westminster is facing life behind bars. Khalid Ali, 28, wanted to bring terror from Afghanistan to the very heart of government by murdering an MP in Whitehall. Ali set out on his mission ‘armed to the teeth’ on 27 April last year, just a month after Khalid Masood ploughed into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge and murdered PC Keith Palmer. He had spent five years building…