http://blog.thecst.org.uk/?p=4123
“More antisemitic terrorists convicted”
February 21st, 2013 by CST
SNIPPET: “Three Birmingham men, Irfan Naseer, 31, Irfan Khalid, 27, and Ashik Ali, 27, have been found guilty at Woolwich Crown Court of being “central figures” in a large scale terrorist plot.
CST welcomes the guilty verdict in this trial, but the terrorists’ suggestion of a gun attack against a synagogue, is yet another disturbing example of would-be antisemitic terrorism here in Britain.
This is the third recent case in which terrorists have contemplated British Jews amongst other UK targets, the others being an al-Qaeda plot of 2011 and the Stock Exchange plot of 2010. Worse still, it follows last year’s Khans case in which a marrried couple solely targeted the Jewish community of North Manchester.
(For details of the East African al-Qaeda plot of 2011, see here; and for details of the Stock Exchange plot of 2010, see here. For the Khans, see here and here.)
In Britain, terrorism threatens all of society. We are all at equal risk when using public places, such as transport hubs or famous buildings – but these cases demonstrate that British Jews face an additional level of threat, due to the sheer number of terrorists who regard Jews as amongst the priority targets for their actions. Last year’s dreadful attack against a Jewish school in Toulouse shows where this hatred can lead.”
http://www.investigativeproject.org/3924/three-convicted-in-massive-british-terror-plot
For The Record - The IPT Blog
“Three Convicted in Massive British Terror Plot”
by John Rossomando
Feb 21, 2013 at 4:02 pm
SNIPPET: “A court in Birmingham, England has convicted three men of plotting to carry out a suicide bombing campaign inspired by the late terrorist mastermind Anwar al-Awlaki.
Irfan Khalid, Ashik Ali and Irfan Naseer were radicalized by Awlaki’s lectures and by al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula’s Inspire magazine, which regularly featured the terrorist mastermind’s articles prior to his death in a September 2011 drone strike.”
SNIPPET: “The trio experimented with making bombs using ammonium nitrate they removed from sports injury cold packs. Experts told the court they could have developed a viable improvised explosive device (IED) using their bomb-making recipe.
Such tactics resemble the sort of “Open Source Jihad” tactics advocated in Inspire that call for small groups or individual jihadists to make bombs and other weapons using readily available ingredients.”
SNIPPET: “Al-Awlaki has been tied to numerous other terror plots, including: Maj. Nidal Hasan and the Fort Hood shooting, Umar Farouq Abdulmutallab’s plot to blow up an airliner with a bomb in his underwear and Faisal Shahzad’s plot to blow up a truck in Times Square. The 9/11 Commission Report also stated he was tied to two of the 9/11 hijackers.
Although al-Awlaki might be gone his message lingers in his videos that are still for sale in Islamic bookstores and in more than 2,000 YouTube videos.”