Killers posed as A-Team in jokey text messages

Two of the 7/7 bombers posed as characters from The A-Team in jokey text messages on the eve of their suicide attacks.

In bizarre exchanges, Mohammed Sidique Khan and Jermaine Lindsay pretended to be Face and B.A. Baracus, two characters ?in the cult 1980s TV drama, which was turned into a Hollywood film this year.

Using the "operational" mobile phones they bought specially to plan the atrocities, they also referred to A-Team character Murdock and repeatedly quoted B.A. Baracus's catchphrase, "I ain't getting on no plane".

The inquests into the deaths of the 52 innocent victims of the attacks heard that the bombers laughed and shared jokes as they travelled to the capital on their deadly mission.

At 2:23pm on 4 July plot ringleader Khan texted Lindsay to say: "Face you mutha f***** il rearange ya face if ya stab me wiv dat needle cos i said i aint getting on no plain fool." This is a reference to the fact that B.A. Baracus was afraid of flying and the other members of The A-Team regularly had to inject him with drugs to get him on board an aircraft.

Lindsay took offence at Khan's message because he felt the part of B.A. Baracus was his.

He replied at 2:32pm: "F*** u b****, dats my line, il stab u wid a f****** needle jus 4 da fun of it. And 2hear u scream like a b****!!! Now lets get dis right. I aint getting on no plain! fool!"

Just before 1am on 6 July, the day before the bombings, Khan sent Lindsay the text message: "Yo BA big n****** you on dat plane or wat. fool."

About an hour later, at 1:55am, Lindsay replied: "I ain't getting on no plane fool".

Police experts recovered the texts from Lindsay's phone, which was found in the wreckage of the bombing between King's Cross and Russell Square stations. The messages were shown to the inquests on Friday but the coroner banned publication of them until yesterday.