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ISLAMIST FANATIC 'PLOTTED TO CUT OFF MUSLIM SOLDIER'S HEAD'
EXTREMISM: Parviz Khan, 37, from Birmingham has pleaded guilty
By Julia White for express.co.uk
AN Islamist fanatic hatched a terrorist plot to kidnap a Muslim British soldier enjoying a night out and behead him “like a pig”.
Parviz Khan, from Birmingham, then intended to release footage of the killing on the internet, a jury at Leicester Crown Court was told.
He pleaded guilty to plotting to kidnapp and kill two weeks ago.
Three other men Basiru Gassama, 30, Mohammed Irfan, 31, and Hamid Elasmar, 44, have admitted to offences in relation to Khan's plot.
Amjad Mahmood, 32, and Zahoor Iqbal, 30, have denied any involvement.
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Basiru Gassama, 30, pleaded guilty to planning to kidnap and kill a soldier
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Prosecutor Nigel Rumfitt QC told the jury that Khan of Alum Rock, Birmingham, hoped to kidnap a British Muslim soldier in
Birmingham’s Broad Street entertainment quarter with the help of drug
dealers.
Mr Rumfitt told the court: “He would be taken to a lock-up garage and
there he would be murdered by having his head cut off like a pig.
“This atrocity would be filmed... and the film released to cause panic
and fear within the British armed forces and the wider public.”
The court was told that Khan was at the centre of a terrorist “cell” or network based in the Birmingham area.
Khan was said to be active in gathering items, including computer hard drives, range-finders and night vision equipment, to be sent out to Pakistan for use by terrorists operating near the Afghan border.
Mr Rumfitt added: “[Khan] was enraged by the idea that there were Muslim soldiers in the British Army, some of them Muslims from The Gambia in West Africa.”
The jury was also told that Khan wanted another man, Gambian national Basiru Gassama, to help identify the victim of the soldier plot.
Gassama, a 30-year-old of Radstock Avenue, Hodge Hill, Birmingham, has also pleaded guilty after failing to inform the authorities of the plan to kill a soldier.
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Hamid Elasmar, 44, also pleaded guilty
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In fact, the court heard, Gassama never came up with the details of an individual target for Khan, and the plan “lay dormant” after July 2006.
But, Mr Rumfitt added, Khan remained determined and in November 2006 he revived his interest in the plot.
The guilty pleas of the four men were entered earlier this month but their reporting was restricted until the start of the trial today of two other men charged alongside the four.
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Mohammed Irfan, 31
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SHOCK-HORROR
30.01.08, 1:14pm
How can anyone believe this man was a threat?
• Posted by: bigfuss • Report Comment
DESTROYING FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND OUR DEMOCRACY
30.01.08, 8:58am
Imagine newspapers, who roast and toast people on a regular basis, and who also promote political parties on a regular basis, having the temerity to remove our democratic right to say what we think.
Shame on the DX.
• Posted by: bigfuss • Report Comment
INHUMAN
30.01.08, 8:52am
Beneath contempt.
EVIL.
UGLY.
FILTH.
GET THEM OUT OF OUR LIVES.
• Posted by: bigfuss • Report Comment
OMG
30.01.08, 8:18am
"****Inapproripate comments will be immediately removed****"
I've never seen so many posts removed like this. Was the mod on prozac or something
• Posted by: Reliant • Report Comment
WIMPS
29.01.08, 10:33pm
When are our so called leaders going to get off their well-padded backsides and make a decision about all these radicals.
They are not all home-grown but we seem to have fallen into a hole called " human rights ". this supposedly prevents us from deporting them. How come that other EU countries can do it?
We have a government that will not do anything until it bites them on the bum, then we get a pathetic response that all these degenerates laugh at.
I have heard all the wimpy language that they use and am digusted that they do not fight for our rights to live without fear, but let this poison be spouted and sold in book form .
The Muslim council are living with their heads in the sand and deny that there is a huge problem. Well I have news for them, all this is alienating the great British tolerance we are known for.
I am afraid that we have a load of cowards in office that are not prepared to do anything in case they are seen as racist.
Our free speech has gone down the toilet and along with it our way of life. Fear of saying the wrong thing interupts everything I say.
then I say it all the same because I AM NOT RACIST BUT I AM ENTITLED TO MY OPINIONS.
• Posted by: marhart • Report Comment
THE MORE I THINK ABOUT THIS STORY THE MORE ABHORENT IT BECOMES
29.01.08, 10:14pm
"Behead him like a pig"
How disgusting these men are.
This government should be ashamed to expose us to this behaviour.
P C indeed!
Throw P C out of the window and stand up and say what you see.
Stand up and say to the British people that you have been wrong.
Tell us how you are going to put things right.
Close the borders to evil.
Close the borders to hatred.
Close the borders to criminals.
But most of all just close the borders!!!!!!
• Posted by: abuela • Report Comment
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