Monday, April 15, 2013

UK Jihadists planned to attack Luton TA base using remote controlled car packed with explosives

 

Jihadists planned to attack Luton TA base using remote controlled car packed

with explosives

Four British jihadists planned to bomb a Territorial Army base by driving a

remote controlled car packed with explosives under its gate.

Tom Whitehead

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/9994940/Jihadists-planned-to-attack-Luton-TA-base-using-remote-controlled-car-packed-with-explosives.html

 

By Tom Whitehead, Security Editor

 

3:00PM BST 15 Apr 2013

 

The al-Qaeda inspired terror cell, from Luton, also discussed attacking MI5,

buying guns or driving a 4x4 car into crowded places, Woolwich Crown Court

heard.

 

Ringleader Zahid Iqbal, 31, helped organise for Jihadists to travel to

Pakistan for extremism training overseas through an al-Qaeda contact he had

there known as "Modern Sleeve".

 

But the cell decided to plan an attack in the UK after Iqbal lost contact

with his secret contact in Spring 2011, Max Hill QC prosecuting, said.

 

They discussed "multiple targets" but the men were under surveillance by MI5

and counter terrorism police who had listening devices in two of their cars.

 

Iqbal, 31, Mohammed Ahmed, 25, Syed Hussain, 21, Umar Arshad, 24, all

British and from Luton, all admitted a series of terrorism offences at an

earlier date and are expected to be sentenced on Tuesday.

 

In one of the secret recordings, Iqbal told Ahmed: "I was looking and drove

past like the TA centre, Marsh Road. At the bottom of their gate there's

quite a big gap.

 

"If you had a little toy car it drives underneath one of their vehicles or

something."

 

Ahmed said he could place a mobile phone instead of a timer on the car so

they cold control its detonation.

 

He was heard saying: "We can try it with something like very small first

time do you get me.

 

"You don't want to be expecting something huge and something little goes

off."

 

He added: "I can choose the exact moment and then not only that, to attach

it like a remote control car 'cause I saw that as well.

 

"Obviously the test run is going to be a bit hot. And you need to be careful

because you don't want to get caught."

 

The idea came from al-Qaeda's banned online magazine Inspire and the men

were also followers of the now dead Yemen-based terrorist An war al-Awake

who encouraged people to attack in whatever form they could.

 

They had originally planned to carry out Jihad overseas and underwent

several trips to Snowdonia to prepare themselves for conditions in the

mountains of Pakistan and Afghanistan, the court heard.

 

In one Snowdonia trip they undertook military style training drills and

marching and even used wooden logs as mock guns.

 

In other recordings, they talked about doing an "inside job against MI5

while another boasted to having a cousin in the US air force.

 

They also mentioned the English Defence League as a possible target.

 

The hearing continues.

 

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