Four U.K. Jihadists Plead Guilty Over Economic Terror Plot
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LONDON (AP) — Four British men radicalized by a U.S.-born Muslim cleric pleaded guilty on Wednesday to involvement in an al-Qaida inspired plot to spread terror and cause economic damage by bombing the London Stock Exchange at Christmastime.
The men were among nine defendants facing trial in London over an alleged plot to attack the exchange and several other high-profile targets in December 2010. All had initially pleaded not guilty to all the charges against them.
But on Wednesday four of the defendants pleaded guilty at Woolwich Crown Court to involvement in the Stock Exchange plot, and the five other British Muslims to lesser charges.
Mohammed Chowdhury, 21; Shah Rahman, 28; Gurukanth Desai, 30; and Abdul Miah, 25, all admitted preparing for acts of terrorism by planning to plant an improvised explosive device in the toilets of the London Stock Exchange.

(Clockwise from top left) Mohammed Chowdhury, Shah Rahman, Abdul Miah and Gurukanth Desai. (Photos: London Telegraph)
Prosecution lawyer Andrew Edis accepted that the men had not planned to kill anyone.
“Their intention was to cause terror and economic harm and disruption,” he said. “But their chosen method meant there was a risk people would be maimed or killed.”
Chowdhury, from London, was described by prosecutors as the “lynchpin” of the plot. His lawyer, Christopher Blaxland, said Chowdhury admitted planning to plant the bomb, “with the obvious attendant risk but without any intention to cause death or even injury but with the intention to terrorize, damage property and to cause economic damage.”
The other five defendants admitted attending planning meetings, fundraising for terrorism or possessing copies of the al-Qaida magazine, Inspire.
Prosecutors said they had not made any bombs or set dates for the attacks.
They said the men were not members of al-Qaida but had been inspired by the terror network and the sermons of its Yemen-based American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed last year in a U.S. drone strike.
Edis said the nine defendants “were implementing the published strategy of AQAP” – al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.
The suspects, aged between 20 and 30, were arrested in London, Cardiff and Stoke-on-Trent in central England, in what police called the biggest anti-terror raid for two years.
Prosecutors said they plotted to send mail bombs to various targets in the run-up to Christmas 2010 and had discussed launching a “Mumbai-style” atrocity – referring to the bomb blasts that killed 166 people in India’s financial center in 2008.
The nine defendants were accused of agreeing on targets, discussing materials and methods, and researching files “containing practical instruction for a terrorist attack.”
The men held planning meetings, researched bomb-making and scouted out locations including Parliament, Westminster Abbey and the London Eye Ferris wheel – not knowing that they were under police surveillance and their homes and cars had been bugged.
A handwritten target list found at one of the defendant’s homes listed the names and addresses of London Mayor Boris Johnson, two rabbis, the American Embassy and the Stock Exchange.
The defendants will be sentenced next week, but the judge has already told Chowdhury he will receive 18 1/2 years and Rahman 17 years. They are likely to serve half that time before being eligible for parole.






















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OBAMA IS A FOUL EVIL TRAITOR
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 12:59pmFeed all four of them ALIVE to a herd of Starving Wild Hogs!!
Report Post »huberto
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 4:43pmThis is only another case of white British people profiling non-whites.
Report Post »2theADDLED
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 12:08amI second that.
Report Post »robert
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 1:55pmThe UK and France have far more jihadists in their home grown terrorist populations than the US proportionately. And, far more of them openly preach hate against their adopted country.
There are so many active anti-British, anti-French Muslims in both countries it astounds a person when he learns neither country has slowed down their importation of these third world criminals one iota.
And, it is further amazing to note immigrants are given handsome benefit packages upon arrival in spite of the fact that both Britain and France are very close to imploding economically.
And, still, anyone openly supporting a halt to immigration is demonized as a racist.
The EU is unequivocally headed for collapse, but so too are the most foolish countries within who seem to welcoming their demise.
Civil war will envelope the EU as surely as it will in the US in the very near future.
Report Post »Diana M.
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 11:14amThese Muslims are very dangerous and should be eliminated. I sure hope they die in prison but I do not think that will happen because they will be released earlier that their sentence mandates. Justice is indeed blind, I am afraid to say so what should we in this country do!!!! Protect your family and report suspicious activity, store food and share what you have with others.
Report Post »richard the lion-hearted
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:55pmSee above comment…
Report Post »Partyof1
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 8:34pmGlenn neeeds to have a talk with Buck Sexton as he disagreed on the news tonight with just about everything that was on Glenns show tonight.
Report Post »richard the lion-hearted
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:55pmYou hear something?
Report Post »TaterSalad
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:00pmMr. President and Secretary of State Clinton, please explain to us veterans along with the American people why you are prosecuting U.S. Marines that urinated on the a couple of enemy Taliban (the same people in this video) while they are executing captured prisoners? Please explain this to us. Are you against us but sing a different tune when on T.V.?
1. Executions: http://www.longwarjournal.org/videos/2012/02/graphic_video_taliban_execute.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LongWarJournalSiteWide+%28The+Long+War+Journal+%28Site-Wide%29%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo
2. Marines: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/13/world/asia/video-said-to-show-marines-urinating-on-taliban-corpses.html?pagewanted=all
3. Amnesty: http://hotair.com/archives/2011/12/30/will-obama-release-fazl-from-gitmo-for-peace-talks-with-taliban/
Report Post »sensibleadult
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 12:51pmYou can look at the pictures and tell they are human cockroaches that need to be exterminated.
Report Post »MYHEROISRON
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 3:46pmThese dogs are just as ugly as the filthy Islamic religion that they follow. I hope they get their heads cut off in prison!
Report Post »SquirrelNYC
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:12pmThey are not human, and even cockroaches have more of a purpose on this Earth. These things are just vile pieces of filthy vermin.
Report Post »richard the lion-hearted
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:56pmNow there is the faces of Islam, such a love filled religion…NOT!
Report Post »Paradiddle69
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:27amAnd, this being England, they will get off or serve a token amount of time, complete with Korans, Halal meals etc.
Or, they will have the excuse given to the black Muslims who beat a white girl—while shouting “kill the white ****” that they just didn’t know any better or are not used to being intoxicated, etc.
“Great” Britain disappeared quite a while ago.
Report Post »hotterthanSE
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:17am“not planning to kill anyone”?! is this guy for reals?! of course they were planning to kill people, why else would you put a bomb in a toilet?!
Report Post »JAMACAMECRAZYMAN
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:14amWhat a fine looking group of gentelmen………..
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 9:32amGeorge Soros is an economic terrorist. Why’s he treated any different?
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 9:56amIt’s the west that is breeding terrorists.The violence in the mid east is war related[our invasions and zionist illigal occupation].or it is people rising up against dictators. in the west we breed them. except for the 9-11 hijackers,now all dead saudi arabia is not breeding terrorists. These muslims and muslim converts are are radicalized here.[by islamaphobic propaganda and our policies abroad -no doubt].once radicalized at home they may go train in the war ravaged mid east.
Report Post »PatriotNAmerica
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:16amYou know I‘m not in favor of the Zionist’s foreign policy. As a matter of fact I’m repulsed by it; however, there is no way in hell that I’d let these mangy looking people into my country if I were in charge.
America needs to return to the pre 1965 Immigration policy and forget about this damn melting pot theory! I don’t want to be melted. I‘m white and I’m proud! ;)
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:47amHey Rose, are you related to any of those guys?
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 12:14pm“…It’s the west that is breeding terrorists.The violence in the mid east is war related[our invasions and zionist illigal occupation].or it is people rising up against dictators….”
Indeed. Let us simply ignore 1,400 years of violent Jihad against all non-muslims across the entire planet and place the blame for the genesis of Jihad on Western Civilization.
Let’s set aside the ideology promulgated through centuries of Islamic Jihad as commanded by their prophet Mohammed and blame it on The West.
Let us ignore the vast swaths of land Western Civilization has ceded to the Islamic Empire from Byzantium to Egypt to Albania to Lebanon and blame it all on The West.
Let us also forget the long and dangerous ocean voyages undertaken by Western powers desperate to find new trade routes to the East after jihading muslims overran and cut off the land routes.
Jihad is not a response to any perceived slight done to muslims by non-muslims.
Jihad is mechanical process used to spread Islam and Sharia.
Report Post »Unix
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 1:41pmah jihad rose – you are the cross-eyed terrorist on the Blaze, got news for ya – when you open the can of worms called terrorism in America, and patriots rise up, it’s called a pandoras box, you will be exterminated just like the rest of the muslim jihadists. You side with the enemy and for that you will get your just desserts…you will meet mohammed in hell alongside your killer friends. You all better stand down, if not and you succeed in you quest to kill Americans you will not last very long at all. I mean no threat to you, but you bring the fight to us and we will finish it – got that moron!
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:05pmCome on ROSE-ELLEN….you’re not fooling anyone. I know you got all hot and bothered looking at the pictures of your muslim “freedom fighters” and dwelling on how many westerners they could have taken out if they succeeded. If only…right Jihad Rosie?
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 9:39pmThat’s Rosey Ellen top left with the wild puckered look and odd facial hair patterns. You go Rose Ellen. Haven’t heard or seen an antisemite toad all day, and there you are, right on cue. How are you Rose? What did the Jews do to you tday? Lets get it out. Did they kick your butt and build on your property too? Are you a Palistinianastaner? Hamas-er or old school PLOer? Which are you? Is this your own lil entafada on the Jews? I like tostadas personally. Are you all jihad about everything Jewish or just the zionist pigs living in Israel? Divulge a little of the manic hatred of the evil Jews.
Report Post »OBAMA IS A FOUL EVIL TRAITOR
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 1:05pm@ROSE-ELLEN
The penalty for High Treason is DEATH BY HANGING you Foul Traitor!!
Report Post »ZeroOff4impact
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 9:28amOk now here’s a tip. This is what almost every radical Muslim looks like. When you see these features keep an eye on them. Yes I’m profiling ! Look around do you see them ?
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 9:43pmThese guys would have pimp walked through TSA. Probably have. It’s why we spend so much on high end video; so we can go back and view what they missed coming and going.
Report Post »obrien871
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 8:41amThat‘s redundant isn’t it? Liberals and socialists already have that one down!
Report Post »momrules
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 8:24amFor every one of these terrorist cells that are discovered there are a hundred more that are not and they are all over the planet.
I just wonder how many are now planning and plotting here in America alone.
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 8:13amThe Brits fold nicely don’t you think? I wonder if the powdered wigs they are so fond of will get in the way of Sharia? Meanwhile- back at the ranch– are there any plans to do ANYTHING with the Ft. Hood shooter? Let me guess on that one- move to Gitmo and release? Grrrrrrrrr!
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:53amHow about the economic terrorist who funds the Democrat machine?
Report Post »Tower7_TRUTH
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 8:07amSo why are we not hearing more about the economic terrorist right here at home ?
Because our elected official are just as corrupt and both dems and repubs
Report Post »work for the Illuminati
Tower7_TRUTH
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 8:12amWarren Buffet makes fortune on Keystone Pipeline rejection because he will
Report Post »ship it by rail.
ProbIemSoIver
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 12:05pmHow is this, for economic terrorism?
In 1992 Bush Sr. Signed Executive Order 12803.
The Infrastructure Privatization Act. They have been selling off, or long-term leasing America’s PORTS, BRIDGES, NATIONAL PARKS, WATERWAYS, JAILS, etc.
A lot of the buyers are our own Politicians and the Wall Street firms that Campaign Finance Them. !!!!!!
Want more Economic Terrorism ???
How about the Orchestrated Bankruptcy of 1933, when YOU and YOUR CHILDREN and your CHILDRENS CHILDREN were PLEGDED as COLLATERAL to a PRIVATE BANK (The Federal Reserve) for the Default of that loan.
They promised you would work ALL your life, and Pay a % to the PRIVATE BANK for the loan of 1933.
They pledged our land and GOVERNMENT !!!
That is why they don’t REPRESENT us.
They are a Corporation running a defacto Government under emergency powers.
Remember BUSH said if they (the American People) knew what they had done, we would lynch them ?
Unfortunately for them, the INTERNET backfired on them. People got information.
The Internet is a way for the Global elite to monitor everyone on the planet, to to put into their main database computer in Colorado.
It is a little known fact the U.S. became a corp. in 1871. headquarters; D.C.
Allen west Admits the United States is a Corporation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN0PlOXCJLc
America bankrupt since 1933 and YOU were pledged to the PRIVATE BANK for LIFE !!!!
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ProbIemSoIver
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 12:20pmThe MSM is just another tentacle of the Global Elite, who are the REAL ECONOMIC TERRORISTS !!
They post a story about four crossbreds with M80s in their Diapers, and call it “Economic terrorism”
Report Post »and the dumbed-down sheeple take it, hook, line and sinker !!!!
ProbIemSoIver
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 12:45pm*addendum
The actual Loan was in 1913 under the Federal reserve act. Income tax became law in all states that year.
The default occured in 1933 under the Emergency Banking Act. The Gov‘t gave all it’s gold to the PRIVATE BANK, but it was not enough.
Under Emergency powers and martial law (we are still “Under” martial law, althought it is only “declared” periodically) he seized all of the “citizens” gold ( Don’t claim to be a “U.S. Citizen”.
That surrenders your sovereign rights and renders you an employee of the corp. Claim to be a Sovereign of a your republic or state ).
The citizen’s gold was not enough.
That is when they pledged America and it’s Assets (yes, you are the corps “asset”).
They have held a lien on us, under International law since 1933.
Birth certificates became law in all states in 1933 and social security in 1936.
These are securities or the creditors to hold.
The private bank (federal reserve) transfered the quitclaim to the World bank and IMF in 1944 at the Bretton Woods Agreement.
In 1945 the IMF created the “United Nations Corporation”, now a “mother” Corp to the U.S. Corp.
The United Nations are the Receivers of the bankruptcy and now OWN the U.S.
NOW DO YOU UNDERSTAND why we are the UN’s “SIDEKICK” ?
http://www.barefootsworld.net/usfraud.html
http://www.teamlaw.net/history.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UajWQbXDblI
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:45amThey should be taken straight to the tower and have their necks stretched for Aljazeera to transmit all over the muslim and liberal world-for all to see. But, Britain ain’t great no more, and we are right on her heels with the destruction of the liberals here, at home.
Report Post »doomytram
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:55amHear, Hear, When they go Mid East on us we should go Mid Evil on them…… but on the other hand, they will let em go in 7 years, earlier if they say they have cancer and need to go home to Mom and Dad and promise to be good. Disgusting fools.Bring back the guillotine.
Report Post »Tower7_TRUTH
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 8:11amBNSF Railway is the major oil player in North Dakota, and its extensive lines into Canada make it the logical choice to ship most of the Canadian oil when all the alternatives are ruled out. Railroads typically charge several thousand dollars just to ship one tank car from the Dakotas to the Gulf, which move in 100 car unit trains. Canada could potentially supply many dozens of these trains daily if it totally committed to rail shipments, providing many new billions of revenue for BNSF.
Oh, by the way, you may know the guy who just bought BNSF, Warren Buffett. Is it just luck, or smarts, or something else?
Frank Friday is an attorney in Louisville, KY. http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/11/warren_buffets_keystone_bonanza.html
Report Post »One Man Progressive Wrecking Crew
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:43amThese very same radical Muslims are in our midst all over the US just waiting for the clarion call to start their US wave of terror, and anyone who tells you any different should be admitted for a 4th degree mental evaluation by a team of psychiatrists, not just ONE.
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:28amOH YEAH. There are millions of them surrounding us.
Pathetic.
You are a conspiracy nutjob.
The Boogieman is goona get you.
Let’s Take away ALL the FREEDOMS of Americans because of these 4 “Spooky” dudes.
To you they are spooky.
To me they are downright ugly, and look crossbred.
We don’t need the Government to handle these punks. just drop them in my “Hood”.
We can save the “Tax payers” (You are just a slave to the federal Reserve for the bankruptcy of 1933)
a lot of money.
RON PAUL 2012
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Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 12:23pm“…OH YEAH. There are millions of them surrounding us.
Pathetic….”
This is the sort of response one expects from an individual totally ignorant of Jihad or the history of Islamic Imperialism, an adherent to the Islamic faith, or an apologist.
No rational individual, once exposed to the blood soaked history of Jihad, can defend it or deny it. The only choice for the rational mind, the Western Mind, is to stand up to Jihad and seek its downfall at every opportunity.
Report Post »RagingJudge
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 12:36pmI’m a Paul supporter, yet I’m willing to acknowledge the Islamist threat for what it is. The two are not mutually exclusive. Paul’s defense-based, Constitutional foreign policy would be much more beneficial to our defense. We would have a significant monetary advantage, numerical advantage, as well as many tactical and logtistical advantage if we focused on defending the homeland rather than outstretching our military on long-term, costly overseas campaigns. Rather than trampling on the bribing other nations for the right to trample on their sovereignty, only to have them undermine us and milk us for nation-building support at the same time, we would be in a friendly, familiar atmosphere of the continental US. Offensive operations would be okay IF Congress declares ware and IF those operations are kept swift and punishing, rather than long-winded and weak-willed as we have now. Destroy them and let THEM rebuild themselves, so they do not for get the pain of Messing with the US.
We Paul supporters should not dismiss the threat of Islamicism, we should advocate for Paul’s SENSIBLE defense solution as a method of dealing with it, as opposed to the failed policies we currently have. I suspect that Paul will become even more serious about this once he has access to the top-secret intel we never get to see.
Ron Paul 2012
Report Post »RagingJudge
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 12:37pm^What a mess of typos. Please excuse me!
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 1:03pmI am fully aware of the long-term, worldwide Caliphate ideology of the muslims.
When they are a majority they WILL impose shariah Law.
This Threat is decades away at best.
I don’t like Muslims. I don’t trust them. They do nothing for me. I will never live under thier rule.
But I also lothe the Global Elite. They are a CLEAR and PRESENT danger far more of a Threat to me and my fellow American’s than 19 Saudia Arabians with BOX CUTTERS, or a clown with a Firecracker in his Panties or in his high heel shoe.
You people that run around like chicken little, claiming the Muslim boogie man is going to get everyone are nuts. conspiracy theorists. bottom line
We have NOT had a Death from a Islamic Jihadist on AMERICAN SOIL since 911, with the exception of the AMERICAN nut job, in our military.
Lets continue to take more freedoms because of the Ft.Hood Clown. I don’t think so.
We exercise the 2nd Amendment in America. We can take care of these inbreds on a local level, either by civil action or street justice. preferably the latter.
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Report Post »RagingJudge
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 1:19pmIndeed, the 2nd Amendment is the most powerful medicine for our defense, ESPECIALLY against nationless radicals who are infiltrating our society.
Report Post »Tower7_TRUTH
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:41amI see Goldman Sachs and Sir Eveylyn de Rothschild as the biggest Financial terrorist
Complete list of bondholders inside, and BBC footage of Sir Eveylyn de Rothschild. The deceased Guy de Rothschild, pictured, no longer exploits the masses for banking profit, but his progeny carry on his legacy effectively. http://dailybail.com/home/rothschild-bank-and-goldman-sachs-are-both-on-the-list-of-bo.html
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:41amWe have this nations biggest band of economic terrorists aside from Soros in the White House and nothing is done about them.
Report Post »Tower7_TRUTH
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:43amSNOW WHO IS KEEPING TRACK OF THE TRILLIONS?
If you’re in a hurry, start watching at the 3-minute mark. At issue is the accounting and oversight for $9 trillion in secret Fed bailouts of Wall Street banks, for which taxpayers are ultimately responsible to the tune of $32,000 for every man, woman and child in this country. Fed audit, anyone?
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doomytram
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:48amHear, Hear. Why not just let em out now? 7 years in a UK prison? If they cry and say they have cancer, will they send them home to with money and let them kill again?
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:41am@TOWER7
Hey my friend.
I am responsible for no man’s debt, but my own. I will pay NOTHING !!!!!!
The CORPORATION of the UNITED STATES can GO TO #ell !!!!!!
I am a Sovereign Human Being, All rights reserved, without predjudice.
iii
Report Post »Tower7_TRUTH
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:35amand Hank Paulson
We haven’t forgotten the crimes against humanity of former Goldman Sachs CEO Henry Paulson and his tax-free $700 million. We put everything that’s important about your former TARP-loving Treasury Secretary into a 90-second comedy short. Take a look!
* A $700 Million Tax Loophole for Poor Mr. Paulson – Forbes
Read about Paulson’s role in the SEC rule change that allowed leverage to explode on Wall Street. This single act played a devastating, but rarely-mentioned role in bringing down the system.
Report Post »http://dailybail.com/home/the-hammer-gets-hit-by-a-tree.html
Tower7_TRUTH
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:30amWhat about Jon Corzine ?
Report Post »One Man Progressive Wrecking Crew
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:50amYea how ’bout it? Isn’t it funny (pathetic ‘funny’) that the left whines and moans and groans and babbles about the one percent, yet all their CRIMINAL 1% er‘s get a nice ’attaboy‘ and are padding Oblamo’s billion dollar propaganda slush fund, probably half of which are nothing but laundered stimulus dollars you can bet the foreclosed farm..
This former Goldman Sachs sack of shiite is the far left Marxist’s Mitt Romney and they slash the hell outta him but this POS gets a pass from them, Obamadinejad, Social Justice Department whitey hater Holder get a pass.
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