15-12-2015, 10:12 AM
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What a nice man (not)
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/man-guilty...2526.html?vp=1A man found guilty of plotting a Remembrance Sunday terror attack used the mobile phone pass code 77911 - a reference to the London and Twin Towers attacks, police have said.
Nadir Syed, 22, planned to carry out an execution in London last year in a bid to copy Lee Rigby's brutal killing, Woolwich Crown Court heard.
Jurors were told Syed - inspired by an Islamic State fatwa - was obsessed with the murder of Fusilier Rigby, who was hacked to death by two extremists in Woolwich in 2013.
Syed was fixated by violence and knives and "unnaturally interested in murders and beheadings", his six-week trial heard.
He was obsessed with IS propaganda and shared violent footage of beheadings from Syria and Iraq on social media, the court was told.
He had tried to leave for Syria in January last year but was stopped at the airport because he was on bail.
The court was also told Syed wrote a message which said: "Wearing a poppy supports murdering terrorist."
A video clip filmed on a mobile phone showed Syed laughing as he stamped on a paper poppy in the street.
Prosecutor Max Hill QC said the action was demonstrative of his "attitude to the poppy as the remembrance image in this country".
Syed was arrested on 6 November last year - shortly after buying a blade, the court heard.
He told police he went to buy knives for his mother because "she was complaining about the state of the knives in her kitchen".
Dressed in a burgundy sweatshirt and wearing an Islamic skull cap, he showed no reaction in court as he was convicted.
His sentencing date is to be confirmed.
The jury was unable to reach verdicts on Haseeb Hamayoon, 28, and Yousaf Syed, 20, and a retrial has been ordered.
Hamayoon and Yousaf Syed deny preparing acts of terrorism.
Commander Richard Walton, head of the Met's Counter Terrorism Command, said the "intense and lengthy operation" had been supported by the intelligence agencies.
"I have no doubt that London is a safer place today with this conviction," he said.
"We continue to appeal to those in the Muslim community to talk to us about anyone they know who is demonstrating an extremist mindset linked to ISIL."
15-12-2015, 10:31 AM
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Re: What a nice man (not)
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https://uk.news.yahoo.com/man-guilty...2526.html?vp=1A man found guilty of plotting a Remembrance Sunday terror attack used the mobile phone pass code 77911 - a reference to the London and Twin Towers attacks, police have said.
Nadir Syed, 22, planned to carry out an execution in London last year in a bid to copy Lee Rigby's brutal killing, Woolwich Crown Court heard.
Jurors were told Syed - inspired by an Islamic State fatwa - was obsessed with the murder of Fusilier Rigby, who was hacked to death by two extremists in Woolwich in 2013.
Syed was fixated by violence and knives and "unnaturally interested in murders and beheadings", his six-week trial heard.
He was obsessed with IS propaganda and shared violent footage of beheadings from Syria and Iraq on social media, the court was told.
He had tried to leave for Syria in January last year but was stopped at the airport because he was on bail.
The court was also told Syed wrote a message which said: "Wearing a poppy supports murdering terrorist."
A video clip filmed on a mobile phone showed Syed laughing as he stamped on a paper poppy in the street.
Prosecutor Max Hill QC said the action was demonstrative of his "attitude to the poppy as the remembrance image in this country".
Syed was arrested on 6 November last year - shortly after buying a blade, the court heard.
He told police he went to buy knives for his mother because "she was complaining about the state of the knives in her kitchen".
Dressed in a burgundy sweatshirt and wearing an Islamic skull cap, he showed no reaction in court as he was convicted.
His sentencing date is to be confirmed.
The jury was unable to reach verdicts on Haseeb Hamayoon, 28, and Yousaf Syed, 20, and a retrial has been ordered.
Hamayoon and Yousaf Syed deny preparing acts of terrorism.
Commander Richard Walton, head of the Met's Counter Terrorism Command, said the "intense and lengthy operation" had been supported by the intelligence agencies.
"I have no doubt that London is a safer place today with this conviction," he said.
"We continue to appeal to those in the Muslim community to talk to us about anyone they know who is demonstrating an extremist mindset linked to ISIL."
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