Naseer played the key role in sending four other Birmingham men to Pakistan to receive training.
His punishment was to run around doing Naseer's bidding, including ferrying the travellers to the airport.
What was clear was that Naseer and the others were considering plans and timetables.
Naseer played a key role in sending four other Birmingham men to Pakistan to receive training.
And so during the summer of 2011, the security services sat quietly listening and assessing Naseer's plans.
Mr Naseer originally came to the UK on a student visa and studied in Manchester and Liverpool.
Mr Naseer has also been accused of helping others to travel to the country for the same purpose.
"Of course, Naseer did not go to Pakistan to study, " Mr Altman said.
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Mr Naseer was the leader, with Mr Khalid not far behind, he said.
Undeterred with the disastrous bungling of his associate, Naseer maintained his resolve.
Naseer played a key role in sending Ishaaq Hussain, Khan, Naweed Ali and Khobaib Hussain to Pakistan to receive training.
The court heard that Mr Naseer devised a cover story about them studying at a religious school recommended by him.
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Mr Naseer denies five counts, Mr Khalid four and Mr Ali three, all between Christmas Day 2010 and 19 September 2011.
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Mr Justice Henriques told Naseer he had been convicted on "overwhelming evidence" and that he faced "a very long minimum term".
Lawyers for Mr Naseer have further argued that his extradition should be halted because the US could later deport him to Pakistan.
As for the cash, Naseer and his recruits went onto the streets of Birmingham during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, rattling collection buckets and wearing high-visibility tabards.
Lawyers for Mr Naseer say they will appeal against the ruling.
Mr Naseer's possible extradition is unlikely to happen until after the European Court of Human Rights has ruled on a string of similar terrorism-related extradition cases.
The US said that that Mr Naseer was operating under the direction of al-Qaeda and was the UK contact in a broad international network, allegations he denies.
Mr Naseer told the jury that, in his conversations that were secretly recorded, he was in fact only pretending to be a terrorist to make himself look big.
Irfan Naseer, 31, Irfan Khalid, 27, and Ashik Ali, 27, were convicted of being "central figures" in the plan which was foiled after months of surveillance work by police.
But in July last year, the US said it wanted to put Mr Naseer on trial for his part in alleged plots to plant bombs in the UK, New York and Norway.
Irfan Naseer was discussing with Irfan Khalid whether to involve a particular friend in the plans - and whether this was a good idea, given the amount of "stuff" they would need to produc e.
Mr Naseer has claimed that he and Mr Khalid feared for their safety after a dispute at a mosque, and he wanted them to be feared so he lied about al-Qaeda links and knowledge of explosives.
The police and MI5, supported by a High Court judge, viewed Mr Naseer as a danger to national security but the CPS found there was insufficient evidence to prosecute him and the courts had ruled he could not be deported.
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