Archive for October 27th, 2009

Living among us: ordinary British suburbia, scene of the beheading plot arrests

Four members of a terror cell which plotted to kidnap and behead a British Muslim soldier have been released early from jail.

Zahoor Iqbal, Hamid Elasmar, Mohammed Irfan and Basiru Gassama were all accomplices of Islamist fanatic Parviz Khan.

Khan, 39, was jailed for life in February 2008 with a recommendation that he serve a minimum term of 14 years after pleading guilty to engaging in conduct with the intention to commit acts of terrorism, supplying terrorist equipment and two counts of possessing documents useful to a terrorist. Read the rest of this entry »