Posted on 04/01/2016 8:19:36 AM PDT by HomerBohn
A delivery driver was convicted on Friday of plotting to kill U.S. troops based in England by staging road accidents with soldiers' cars and then attacking them with knives and possibly a home-made bomb.
Junead Khan, 25, a supporter of the Islamic State (IS) extremist group, was found guilty of preparing terrorist acts. He and his uncle Shazib Khan, 23, were also convicted of planning to join IS in Syria.
Kingston Crown Court southwest of London had heard that Junead Khan had been visited four times by police trying to divert him from extremism but he had rejected their offers of help.
Eventually he was arrested and searches of various addresses revealed evidence of what police said in a statement painted an alarming picture of his plans to attack U.S. soldiers based in Britain.
"Specifically, he intended to stage a road accident to draw soldiers out of their car, before attacking them with knives and potentially detonating a home-made bomb," the statement said.
In one message to a suspected accomplice in Syria, Khan told how he had missed an opportunity to kill Americans on his rounds in Bedfordshire, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire in central and eastern England.
"When I saw these U.S. soldiers on the road it just looked simple but I had nothing on me or would've got into an accident with them and made them get out the car," he wrote.
Police said they recovered British and U.S. flags stolen from a diner near Khan's home in Luton, north of London, which they believe were potentially to be used for a symbolic act during the attack.
The two men are due to be sentenced on May 13.
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But did they ever kiss him, hug him, hold him tight? Did they promise to get him a virgin if he'd stop thinking bad terrorist thoughts?
America is almost as bad as the UK in the coddling of these Koran-insane evildoers. Hopefully with a real president and a Congress with a fire under their ass we'll get serious about kicking these Muslims out of our country.
This Muslim jerkoff will probably get a 3 year sentence with time off for good behavior
When he returns to society, he will be much more successful in his endeavors.... and they will all be shocked....
” staging road accidents with soldiers’ cars and then attacking them with knives”
Heck of a plan.
Currently we have both a niece and a nephew stationed in the Middle East. We will be putting together a care package this weekend. It is crappy duty and our nephew has been sent over there almost countless times during his career.
The only reason I mention it is because most soldiers used to enjoy being sent to Europe. They could do some traveling and see some neat stuff. And it wasn’t 120 degrees in the shade while wearing body armor. But at this point it is starting to turn into a place where one of our soldiers is almost as likely to be attacked by a Muslim as when you are stuck on a s**thole base in the middle of the desert.
What is the point of being in NATO if our soldiers can’t even have some fun sightseeing? LOL
Khan had been visited four times by police trying to divert him from extremism but he had rejected their offers of help.
Did they issue him a “caution”?
BTW, his uncle is two years younger than him?
We need to get brutally hard on these cretans
Khan!!!!!!
Are you kidding? It's Brittain, they will apologise to him for interfering with the practice of his religion and culture and give him large cash settlement for having inconvenienced him.
I’m shocked, I tell you! The idiot criminal is a freakin’ moozlum!!!
He’ll probably be French kissed by the guards when he leaves.
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