A terror suspect wanted to blow up civilians in a campaign of bombing on pubs, trains and nightclubs, a court heard.

Omar Khyam, 24, from Crawley, believed ordinary people would make easier targets than the military, the Old Bailey was told yesterday.

The jury was told Khyam had tried to arrange training in hijacking aeroplanes from a Kashmiri terror group. He is one of seven men accused of plotting a massive fertiliser bomb blast in the UK.

He and the others discussed attacking the Bluewater shopping centre and London nightclubs as well as poisoning burgers at football matches, it is claimed.

Khyam is said to have told al-Qaeda agent Mohammed Junaid Babar that he wanted to "hit" pubs, trains and nightclubs in Britain because of the country's support for American wars against Muslim countries.

Babar, 31, who turned supergrass after being caught by the FBI and is now testifying against Khyam and his co-defendants, claimed Khyam saw civilians as easy targets.

Giving evidence for the 14th day, Babar was shown notes made by FBI agents of his interrogation by them in a plush Manhattan hotel before he formally agreed to co-operate.

One FBI note read: "Babar advised that Khyam believed that the UK should be hit because of its support of the US in Afghanistan and Iraq and because nothing has ever happened in the UK, the UK is unscathed.

"Khyam said we need to do more, we should hit their pubs, trains and nightclubs. Khyam said targets in the UK are legitimate because British soldiers are killing Muslims, and that military targets are too difficult to hit."

Asked if what he had told the FBI about Khyam's claims was true, Babar replied: "Yes."

He pretended to the FBI that he did not agree with Khyam's plan to bomb civilians.

But Babar admitted to jurors: "That's not my thinking. Any country fighting Muslims, you can hit military or civilian targets."

Asked why he had lied to the FBI, he replied: "I knew that the UK plot was to hit civilian targets so I was trying to divert myself away from that."

Babar also told how Khyam had tried to arrange training in hijacking aeroplanes from a Kashmiri terror group.

He told the FBI that the terror camp would feature "weapons training, explosives training, how to hijack planes and other skills".

But Babar agreed that the proposed Kashmiri camp had never been set up.

The seven British Muslims on trial are said to have planned a huge fertiliser bomb blast after setting up their own weapons training camp in Pakistan.

They are accused of plotting to blow up Kent's giant Bluewater shopping centre and a London nightclub in a series of fertiliser bomb blasts.

The al-Qaeda-linked cell also planned to poison football fans with contaminated burgers and tried to buy a nuclear bomb from the Russian mafia, it is claimed.

But police were on to them and they were caught just before they finalised their target, it is claimed.

Omar Khyam, 24, Waheed Mahmood, 34, Jawad Akbar, 22, and Shujah Mahmood, 19, are all from Crawley, Anthony Garcia, 24, is from Ilford, Essex, Nabeel Hussain, 20, is from Horley, and Salahuddin Amin, 31, is of Luton, Beds.

All deny conspiracy to cause an explosion likely to endanger life or injure property.

Hussain, Garcia and Khyam also deny possessing the 600kg of fertiliser for the purposes of terrorism between November 11, 2003 and March 31, 2004.

Khyam and Shujah Mahmood further deny possessing aluminium powder for purposes connected with terrorism between October 1, 2003 and March 31, 2004.

The trial continues.