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.

His plan had been to burn the kidnapped soldier’s body and parade his head on a stick as a warning to other Muslims against joining the British Army, but he failed to identify a soldier to target.

The court heard the Birmingham-based terror cell was primarily committed to supplying equipment to Mujahideen insurgents fighting UK forces on the Afghan border with Pakistan.

British-born school attendance monitor Iqbal, 32, was sentenced to seven years after being convicted at Leicester Crown Court of supplying terrorist equipment.

Irfan, 31, and Elasmar, 44, admitted engaging in conduct with the intention of assisting in acts of terrorism before the trial. Khan also pleaded guilty ahead of the trial.

Irfan received a four-year jail sentence and Elasmar was jailed for three years and four months. Elasmar was freed after serving just five months.

Despite his terror conviction, Morocco-born Elasmar has not been deported as he has British National status gained when he married his English ex-wife.

Gassama, a Gambian national, 30, admitted failing to alert the authorities to the soldier plot and was sentenced to two years.

The release date for prisoners is usually halfway through the judge’s sentence, with deductions for time served on remand. The four were arrested in January 2007 and held in custody before the trial.

Parviz Khan was sentenced to life for his role in masterminding the plot. He is likely to serve a further five years or so

It is understood they remain on a Bank of England watchlist restricting their bank accounts, freezing their assets and imposing caps on any financial transactions. This is in order to prevent them using funds to supply overseas terror organisations in the future.

The Ministry of Justice would not confirm if any of the four were still in jail.

A spokesman said: ‘Those convicted of terrorist offences and sentenced to more than 12 months imprisonment will be subject to probation supervision on release from prison.

‘They have to adhere to a set of strict conditions and are subject to recall to custody if they breach their conditions or their behaviour indicates that it is no longer safe to allow them to remain in the community.

‘Terrorist offenders may also be subject to Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA), a statutory set of arrangements established by the police, probation and prison service in each area to assess and manage the risk posed by sexual and violent offenders.

‘As part of this all areas have been asked to put in place plans of action to prevent violent extremism and reduce reoffending.

‘Certain high risk offenders are required to reside in an approved premises on release from custody as a condition of licence.

‘Where convicted terrorists are foreign nationals, we will seek to deport them.’

It is astounding that these men have not only been released ridiculously early into their already lenient sentences, but that it appears that no meaningful deportation efforts will be made; even where it may be feasible.

In the crazy, morally inverted world of Britain in 2009 the signal is being sent out that you can expect to receive a sentence more appropriate for burglary than for a spectacularly evil and murderous terror plot. It’s also OK, it seems, to raise money and supplies for terrorist groups in Pakistan.

Under this government’s completely non-selective mass immigration project, it’s OK, too, that these people are could easily be your neighbours.

[Source: Daily Mail]

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