Posted on 06/10/2013 11:33:46 AM PDT by LibWhacker
Six Islamic extremists who planned to spark 'a tit-for-tat spiral of violence and terror' with an attack on an EDL rally have today been jailed for up to 19-and-a-half years.
The Al Qaeda-inspired cell were plotting to attack an Armed Forces Day rally in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, with weapons including nail bombs, machetes and sawn-off shotguns
Judge Nicholas Hilliard QC told the men: 'How was it that you became involved in a crime of this gravity?
'At least part of the answer to that question must come in the tide of apparently freely available extremist material in which most of you had immersed yourselves.'
Scores would have been seriously injured and even killed in the atrocity.
But the gang were foiled when the EDL protest finished earlier than expected.
They went for fish and chips before heading home with their cache of weapons and a series of chilling notes that warned: 'We love death more than you love life.'
The gang had been radicalised by Al Qaeda internet propaganda and hundreds of terror manuals were found on their computers.
They had even tried to build a pipe bomb for their attack using an infamous 'recipe' entitled 'Make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom'.
Police had no intelligence on the plan and only caught the plotters by 'pure chance' when one of their cars was stopped for being uninsured.
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Guns have never been a part of UK culture that they have been in the US. This is the country of the knife. Even our criminals stab and slash rather than shoot.
Yes.....London’s worst serial murderer wasn’t known as Jack the Shooter, now was he?
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