Right on script, I mean, schedule:
"British court sentences ringleader in terrorist plot to at least 18 years" by Jill Lawless | Associated Press, April 27, 2013
LONDON — The ringleader of an Al Qaeda-inspired plot to detonate knapsack bombs in England was sentenced on Friday to at least 18 years in jail.
Judge Richard Henriques said 31-year-old Irfan Naseer was ‘‘the leader, driving force, and man in charge’’ of the elaborate plot, sentencing him to life with no possibility of parole for 18 years.
‘‘Your plot had the blessing of Al Qaeda and you intended to further the aims of Al Qaeda,’’ Henriques told Naseer in London as he sentenced the man nicknamed Big Irfan, or Chubbs, along with 10 accomplices. ‘‘Clearly nothing was going to stop you, short of intervention of the authorities.’’
Prosecutors had said the men, fired up by the sermons of US-born Al Qaeda preacher Anwar al-Awlaki, hoped to cause carnage on a mass scale. One of Naseer’s accomplices was recorded calling the planned attack ‘‘another 9/11.’’
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Police said the terrorist conspiracy was the most significant uncovered in Britain since a plot to blow up airliners in midair was foiled in 2006.
But the plot was undone by problems with money and logistics. No targets had been chosen and no bombs built when Naseer, Ashik Ali, and Irfan Khalid, both now 28, were arrested in September 2011 in Birmingham, central England, after a huge investigation and surveillance operation by police and the security service....
Translation: they were set-up like all the other pathetic patsy plotters. They were being handled by intelligence agencies and were outed.
Many of the group’s plans soon went awry....
The group considered outlandish attacks, including tying sharp blades to the front of a truck and driving it into a crowd. Naseer was heard talking about the possibility of mixing poison into creams such as Vaseline or Nivea and smearing them on car handles to cause mass deaths.
Prosecutors said the men ultimately gravitated toward a plan to detonate up to eight knapsack bombs — either on timers or in suicide attacks — in a bid to cause destruction on a scale larger than the July 7, 2005, London transit bombings, which killed 52 commuters.
Did you know that drills simulating the whole thing were occurring simultaneously? The same old script is starting to give me a bellyache.
Naseer was recorded plotting about knapsack bombs going ‘‘boom, boom, boom everywhere,’’ while Khalid said the attack would be ‘‘revenge for everything, what we’re doing is another 9/11.’’
And thus the 21st-century state of totalitarian government advancing and serving the globalist interest in the name of fighting terrorists needs to search that pack. My opinion is they are really looking for guns, drugs, and anything else they can use against you or give cause to detain.
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I will update as needed. Going to start a ban backpacks campaign and put that terrorist-supporting front out of business, and I'm not toying around.
UPDATES:
"3 British men jailed for terrorism training" by Cassandra Vinograd | Associated Press, April 26, 2013
LONDON — Three British Muslims, including a convert who was featured in a documentary about radical Islam and a former London police support officer, were jailed Thursday in London for traveling to Pakistan for terrorism training.
Richard Dart, Imran Mahmood, and Jahangir Alom pleaded guilty last month. Prosecutors said that in addition to traveling to Pakistan for training between 2010 and 2012, the trio went to extensive lengths to try to evade surveillance, discussed making explosives, and referenced Wootton Bassett — which for years served as a military repatriation town — as a possible target.
Dart had appeared in a BBC documentary that chronicled the efforts of his filmmaker stepbrother to understand why he had embraced an uncompromising form of Islam.
Dart, 30 — a former BBC security guard — was in a YouTube video in which he criticized the royal family, the marriage of Prince William to Kate Middleton, and UK foreign policy — was jailed for six years.
Alom, a 26-year-old former police support officer, appeared in a video expounding hardline beliefs and was sentenced to four years. Mahmood, 22, received more than nine years.
In sentencing, Judge Peregrine Simon told the three they had shown themselves to be “committed to acts of terrorism.”
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Different guys, same bs.
