Posted on 06/15/2007 6:13:08 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Britons jailed over al Qaeda plot to bomb NYSE Fri Jun 15, 2007 9:02AM EDT
By Michael Holden
LONDON (Reuters) - Seven Britons linked to a plot to blow up U.S. financial institutions, including the New York Stock Exchange, and stage a series of attacks in Britain were jailed for a total of 136 years by a London court on Friday.
Prosecutors said the men were part of a group headed by senior al Qaeda operative Dhiren Barot and described as "one of the most dangerous and ambitious terrorist cells ever to operate in this country".
Barot is currently serving a life jail term after admitting last year he had planned bomb attacks in Britain and the United States.
Six of the men, Mohammed Naveed Bhatti, Junade Feroze, Zia Ul Haq, Abdul Aziz Jalil, Nadeem Tarmohamed and Omar Abdur Rehman pleaded guilty to conspiring with Barot to cause explosions between 2001 and 2004.
The seventh, Qaisar Shaffi, was found guilty on Wednesday.
Barot, a Muslim convert, was considered by some U.S. officials to be either al Qaeda's cell leader in Europe or at least the head of bin Laden's organization in Britain.
In early 2001, he had carried out surveillance on the NYSE, Citigroup, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and Prudential in New York, Washington, and Newark, New Jersey.
After the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, he turned his attention to Britain and had plotted coordinated attacks using a radioactive "dirty bomb", limousines filled with gas cylinders and the blowing up of an underground train beneath the River Thames.
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Nothing to see here.....Rosie says they are mothers and fathers too /sarc
I wonder if this foiled plot by our vile enemies will even make any page of the The New York Times.
Well Rosie is half correct...many are fathers (and enabling mothers)who practice honor killings of Rosie’s preferred gender. Funny how that seems to have escaped to rotund one.
We're going to need a bigger bumper sticker....
Too bad that guy is dead.
I totally hate the headline. “Britons jailed over al Qaeda plot to bomb NYSE” evokes an image of Steed and Mrs. Peel or the Monty Python group trying to blow up the NYSE. The headline is misleading. It ought to read Brit Muzzies plan to blow the NYSE. Muslims have no sense of country. Islam is a quest to bring the world into a Global Caliphate. The headline is just toooooooo PC.
"Zia-Ul-Haq"
Damn. I was sure the dude was dead by now....
“I’m sure these gentlemen will get a warm welcome in Britains prison system from it’s many inmates who don’t appreciate their muslim antics. . . . . . .”
Many of the co-jailees ARE Muslims...
Sorry, with those names I don't think of them as Britons (not in the usual sense anyway). They are Arabs who happen to reside in Great Briton.
Three guys with AKs and explosives could easily get into the trading floor and wreak havoc. Security is a joker.
They are not British and their kind never will be accepted by a growing number of us ; you are either an Englishman OR a moslem, you cannot be both.
There are only 1 and a quarter million Mohamfreaks out of a population of 59 million, yet government officials are trying to force the 57 and 3/4 million to adapt to them. Well not where I live !
“I promise faithfully to serve my Queen, Country, and Faith”
Thats what I swore on September 6 1985
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