Briton admits plot to behead Muslim soldier

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Briton admits plot to behead Muslim soldier

By Mark Trevelyan in Leicester, England

January 30, 2008 03:14am
Article from: Reuters


A MAN has pleaded guilty to a plot to kidnap and kill a Muslim soldier in the British army by cutting off his head "like a pig", a court was told.

Parviz Khan, a 37-year-old Briton, pleaded guilty this month to a series of charges including the beheading plot, which was foiled by police and the MI5 security service a year ago.

News of the plot leaked to the media last year, prompting parallels with al-Qaeda hostage killings in Iraq.

Prosecutor Nigel Rumfitt told the jury to ignore what they had heard. While Khan and the other defendants were Muslims, ?this is not a prosecution of the Islamic faith?, he said.

Khan was ?a man who has the most violent and extreme Islamist views? who wanted to get physically involved in acts of terrorism, Mr Rumfitt said.

?He was enraged by the idea that there were Muslim soldiers in the British army, some of them Muslims from The Gambia in west Africa.?

Khan decided to kidnap such a soldier with the help of drug dealers operating in the central English city of Birmingham. The victim was to be seized while enjoying a night out and bundled into a car, Mr Rumfitt said.

?He would be taken to a lockup garage and there he would be murdered by having his head cut off like a pig. This atrocity would be filmed? and distributed to spread panic and fear in the British armed forces and the public, he said.

Another man, Amjab Mahmood, faces the same charge in the trial that opened today. He and a co-defendant, Zahoor Iqbal, are charged with working alongside Khan and others to supply equipment to help militants on the Pakistan-Afghan border fighting Western coalition troops.

[sniper]

Hanging is too good for wantabee terrorists

[Silver Bullet]

Hanging is too good for wantabee terrorists

Quite agree, we need to leave them in a worm infested well, and leave them there to rot little by little.