A 28-year-old British man who made bombs for the Taliban was found guilty on June 26 of plotting a knife and bomb attack in Westminster.Khalid Ali was arrested by police officers on April 27, 2017, and was found to have been carrying three knives.The investigation into Ali began when he was reported missing by his family in 2011, only to appear at the British Consulate in Turkey in October 2016, asking for temporary travel documentation to return to the UK.His fingerprints were taken by police on his return to London, and shared with US authorities who matched them with a set of fingerprints identified on bomb components recovered from Afghanistan in 2012.Following this discovery, police officers surveyed Ali’s behavior, and recovered packaging for numerous knives from a bin he had disposed them in.In a press release, the Metropolitan Police’s Deputy Assistant Commissioner Dean Haydon said “it is apparent to me that Ali spent some considerable years helping the Taliban create – and maybe even detonate – bombs which could maim and kill many people in Afghanistan”. Credit: Metropolitan Police via Storyful