"Last month, the High Court cut Barot's jail term from 40 to 30 years after it was ruled the initial sentence was too harsh."
Harsher than massive bombings targeting civilians, infrastructure, and the national economy? An update on this story."Britons jailed over al Qaeda plot to bomb NYSE," by Michael Holden for Reuters:
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.
Had their plans come to fruition, Barot's trial judge said they would have caused "carnage and butchery ... on a colossal and unprecedented scale."
His seven accomplices had helped put the plans together and scope out targets.
Peter Clarke, head of London's Counter Terrorism Command, said the men were vital to the plots.
"They were the planning team and were needed by Barot to contribute expertise in areas that he was lacking," he said.
"They were the trusted few who researched, carried out reconnaissance and supported Barot."
At Woolwich Crown Court in south London, Feroze was jailed for 22 years; Bhatti and Tarmohamed to 20 years; Ul Haq to 18 years; Jalil to 26 years; Rehman and Shaffi to 15 years.
What will they do when they get out?
Last month, the High Court cut Barot's jail term from 40 to 30 years after it was ruled the initial sentence was too harsh.
"Last month, the High Court cut Barot's jail term from 40 to 30 years after it was ruled the initial sentence was too harsh."
Seems the wrong way round. I would like to increase it from 40 to 80 years. And 80 brutal years. 80 years in solitary confinement.
Judges are too soft.
"Judges are too soft.
Posted by: UK Infidel Lover "
...yep....but a victory is a victory....we need more...
Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, Who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: to Whom be glory forever and ever.
Imagine serving a god that requires you to butcher other human beings, such as in "Apocalypto." Dismembered, burned, blood-spattered, headless corpses of not just men, but aged, infants and females.
A god that is pleased with such fruit.
It truly sickens not only the stomach, but the heart. Pray for the poor souls condemned to believe in this god, that they might come out into the true and everlasting Light of the World.
Fantastic JW posting on Jihadi psychology a year back. This should be a must read for all leftists first.
Pathways to Jihadi Terrorism
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/011802.php
Had their plans come to fruition, Barot's trial judge said they would have caused "carnage and butchery ... on a colossal and unprecedented scale."
But of course it would have been for a good cause - to please their god and assure themselves a place in heaven.
So when will they be canonized? Surely decades in the infidel prison count at least as much as blowing yourself up. Either way you suffer for allah.
Oh the trials allah hath wrought.
"Pray for the poor souls condemned to believe in this god"
Why don't you pray twice, once for me, while I reload...
Stand fast in the liberty:
Pray for the poor souls condemned to believe in this god, that they might come out into the true and everlasting Light of the World.
Not my prayer. I would like to see all Muslims burn and rot in hell. There is nothing good about a Muslim. Or their lousy religion. The suffering they have imposed on the rest of the world, over 1400 years is unimaginable. The scale is vast. It is 100's of millions in terms of murder. This is not even counting slavery, enslavement of women, rape of women, theft of property, lopping off other peoples limbs, destruction of books, culture, possessions.
My prayers are for their victims.
Yesterday Fatah members were thrown to their deaths off 15 storey flats. Time to rejoice at their destruction.
UK Infidel Lover:
Well, Jesus Christ didn't feel that way about them. He is not willing that any should perish.
Praying for our enemies is a good thing to do, to realize that we would behave the same way if we were still in darkness, like they are.
And somehow I think if we feel that way about fellow human beings, it makes us just like a follower of mohammed. Not for me, thank you very much.
Suspect Barot had his sentence reduced by 10 yrs because he confessed to police-no doubt they came to some agreement behind closed doors.
U.K along with other Western countries apart from
U.S-shows their weak,Multicultural,P C nature in
sentencing these Terrorist scumbags.
And these are just the Terror Plots British Intelligence knows about...
Did see an article on Al Jazeera Beeb[BBC] called
'Diary of a Jihadi'.Apparently Zeesham Siddiqui left London Surburbia to dedicate his life to Allah and preparing himself for Jihad in Pakistan.Wannabe 'Holy Warrior' is soon making
whining entries in his diary that there is 'no running water,dreadful food,terrible neighbours,shit encrusted toilets-he is covered in shit due to constant shitting,horrors-he is
'living in filth' in 'Land of the Pure'-Pakistan.
[Are we meant to feel sorry for this low life??]
Well worth reading for a laugh,anyway.
You get more time for selling drugs.When you sell drugs to people THEY CHOOSE to buy them.
Jihadists or any killer gives you no real option other than die.Then add a killer who intends to kill himself while killing as many as possible,these dogs shouldn't be allowed to breathe.
Man, these terrorist morons must be more schizphrenic than even I knew they were...to0 think that bombing the NYSE would cripple America?
LMAO
Obviously they don't know the structure set up here, lest they not bother with a mere trading pit, which can be set up anywhere. Besides, that is NOT where the overwhelming numbers of money is traded...not even close. It's so simple, I'm shocked they haven't figured it out-it's so easy.
I'm sure this will pique their curiosity, but the answer they will have to figure themselves am NOT going to help them, just as FDR refused to help the imperial japanese try to figure where those B-25s came from in April '42...
"our secret base in Shangri La"
Had they really known the answer, they wouldn't have bothered with such futility as the NYSE.
the queen has stuck her 2 fingers up again at the muslims in her country, this time by giving a knighthood to salman rushdie. the last time the queen mobilised 1 million british onto the streets to fly our flag for her anniversary, coincidentally a few days after muslims bombed london (and the bbc proudly stated that here in britain the british will not fly their flags as did the americans did after 9/11)
hopefully the queen will soon order "her" british army, and millions of patriots, onto the streets of every major city in the UK to retake our country.
Time for the EU to reinstate the death penalty for terrorism.
Or be prepared to waste billions feeding, housing, and coddling these scorpions in the years to come.
Wake up, or be buried.
JW posters might be interested to know that in Britain jail sentences are reduced by half for good behaviour so divide the time by two and that is what they will probably serve.
Some years back Brittain had the harshest laws in any europian country, where being a mere accomplice was enough for a trip to the gallows.
Bring back Tyburne and public hanging for these scum and bury them with a dead pig.
Um, there are dog years. There are cat years. There are state prison years. And there are British prison years.
I bet those low-lifes have already served their time in British Prison years and are being paid for their overtime.
jdow
Not quite, but I THINK the time spent in jail before the trial is also taken off. This could knock another year or more off the time to be served.
"...it was ruled the initial sentence was too harsh."
Well, of course -- these guys didn't actually DO anything. If you're a liberal, words are ... just words. Plans are just words. They're not actions! You can't punish somebody for what he thinks!!! Words don't count!!!!
(This applies only to extremist, violent, anti-western words. Conservative or non-PC words, however, are hate-filled and racist, and as such they must be denounced and punished.)