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UK: Muslim couple convicted of preparing jihad terror attack in London

Dec 29, 2015 8:17 pm By Robert Spencer

The ingratitude. After all the British government has done, this is what they get. They’ve demonized and stigmatized resistance to jihad terror, and bent over backwards to appease Islamic supremacists, hoping that by doing so they would end the jihad — and this is what they get.

Mohammed Rehman and Sana Ahmed Khan

“British couple convicted of preparing terror attack in London,” Reuters, December 30, 2015:

A British couple was convicted on Tuesday of plotting an attack in London after the husband sent out tweets asking for advice on which targets he should hit, alerting police to a stockpile of chemicals at their home.

Mohammed Rehman, 25, and Sana Ahmed Khan, 24, were found guilty by a jury at the Central Criminal Court of engaging in the preparation of terrorist acts, with a view to hitting either a large shopping centre in the capital or the London underground network.

“Westfield shopping centre or London underground? Any advice would be appreciated greatly,” Rehman said on Twitter, under the name “Silent Bomber”.

The couple, who denied the charges, are to be sentenced at a later date.

The British prosecutor said on Tuesday the two Britons had carried out detailed research into militant attacks, including searching the internet for videos related to the London transport bombings which killed 52 people a decade ago.

Those attacks were carried out on July 7, 2005 when four young British Muslims travelled from northern England to the capital to detonate homemade bombs hidden in rucksacks on three underground trains and a bus during the morning rush-hour.

British media reports said Rehman and Sana had planned to carry out an attack to coincide with the 10-year anniversary of those earlier bombings.

Rehman, who was also found guilty of possessing an article for terrorist purposes, had carried out test bombs in his garden which he filmed and sent to his wife, and she had also helped to purchase the chemicals, the prosecutor said.

“The pair had been very close to carrying out an attack, all they required was to purchase the chemicals to make a detonator,” said Susan Hemming, head of counter terrorism division at the Crown Prosecution Service.

She added that the couple had already acquired 10kg (22 pounds) of Urea Nitrate. “There is little doubt that, had Rehman and Ahmed Khan not been stopped when they were, they would have attempted to carry out an act of terrorism in London.”…

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  1. Singh the Sikh says

    Dec 30, 2015 at 12:23 am

    Once were moderates…

  2. Baucent says

    Dec 30, 2015 at 2:58 am

    I would be interested to know what the Imam at the local mosque had to say about this couple. No doubt he had never met them.

    • Sean says

      Dec 30, 2015 at 11:22 am

      He’ll say he never met them but he does.

  3. Geraldine says

    Dec 30, 2015 at 6:46 am

    How could that man make a bomb – he seems to have deformed shoulders and vestigial arms. Or were they deformed by an explosion?

  4. duh_swami says

    Dec 30, 2015 at 7:07 am

    Where;s the headscarf? Look at all that uncovered meat’… She;s not pleasing Allah dressed like that,, but it’s hist fine with me…

  5. David M says

    Dec 30, 2015 at 8:27 am

    England is WAY overdue for its next Muslim bombing unfortunately, they won’t be able to stop them all. Not the sharpest tools in the shed these two, I’m guessing they are first cousins. We know more than 50% of all Muslims are inbred from marrying their first cousin.

    • jayell says

      Dec 30, 2015 at 1:33 pm

      “We know more than 50% of all Muslims are inbred from marrying their first cousin.”….and costing the UK taxpayer an arm and a leg paying for the NHS treatment and social services costs for all birth defect problems (they account for about 30% of all expenditure on this budget, despite being only about 4% of the population).

  6. Marty says

    Dec 30, 2015 at 10:42 am

    These dirtwads are interesting, in that they were not overtly mohammedan.
    Invasion of the Bodysnatchers is as true today as when first made.
    In the UK virtually all male converts are failed criminals who want to join
    the big league, in fact the biggest criminal conspiracy ever.
    Typical reported today in the UK
    “Craig Wallace, 23, who converted to Islam while serving a jail term for attempted robbery, said he would bomb Tory MP Charlotte Leslie’s house because he wanted to show her “what it’s like to murder innocents”.”
    Sadly this bit of scum only got a few months inside.
    We’ll hear from him again.

  7. Singh the Sikh says

    Dec 30, 2015 at 10:55 am

    Why can’t they be sent back to a Pakistani prison instead of costing British taxpayers more money as guests at the local prison. The Brits are inheriting both a deadly and a financially crippling problem by letting in muzzies of this sort. When will the government come to its senses.

  8. Ian Marshall says

    Dec 30, 2015 at 1:16 pm

    Just heard BBC News announce their life sentences under the headline `A MUSLIM COUPLE`!!!
    Let`s hope the Beeb keep up this transparency.

  9. Mark A says

    Dec 30, 2015 at 1:31 pm

    Clearly they have misunderstood their religion of peace.

    Isn’t it strange how so many of these misunderstandings of their religion of peace involve a belief in bombings, slaughter and creating general mayhem.

  10. Noel says

    Dec 30, 2015 at 4:30 pm

    BBC News:
    A husband and wife who plotted a terror attack in London have been jailed for a minimum of 27 and 25 years.
    Mohammed Rehman, 25, discussed targeting the London Underground and Westfield shopping centre on social media under the name “Silent Bomber”.
    He and his wife Sana Ahmed Khan were convicted of preparing terrorist acts.
    Jailing them both for life at the Old Bailey, Mr Justice Baker told Rehman he had been “determined to fulfil the Islamic State’s call for jihad”.

  11. Veritas says

    Dec 30, 2015 at 6:29 pm

    Daily Mail:

    ‘I was in an abusive and controlling relationship’.

    Sana Ahmed Khan, 24, an English graduate whose mother was a magistrate, begged the judge for mercy as she was ordered to spend 25 years behind bars for her part in the terror plot. In a letter written to the judge, she said she ‘should have distanced herself’ from Mohammed Rehman ‘a long time ago’ and had recently written to her husband granting him an Islamic divorce. She also said she ‘desperately wanted to stop’ but that her addiction to drugs had clouded her mind. It came as unemployed Rehman – whose dream of blowing up either Westfield shopping centre or the London Underground was funded by his wife – was jailed for a minimum of 27 years. But Mr Justice Jeremy Baker dismissed her pleading letter, sentencing her to life imprisonment, and saying she had ‘full knowledge’ of Rehman’s plans and ‘took a full and active part’ in encouraging it. The judge added that the plot was at a ‘relatively advanced stage’ and if successful would have resulted in multiple casualties. Yesterday, the pair were found guilty at the Old Bailey of preparing acts for terror. It came after a three-week trial and more than three days of deliberations.

    Now we know. Sudden Jihad syndrome is caused by being in an abusive relationship with somebody called Mohammed!

  12. mortimer says

    Dec 31, 2015 at 5:55 pm

    9% of Pakistanis have a favorable opinion of ISIS; 28% unfavorable; 62 refuse to give their opinion.

    Pakistan is filled with jihadists and sympathizers.

  13. Angemon says

    Jan 1, 2016 at 8:57 pm

    “Westfield shopping centre or London underground? Any advice would be appreciated greatly,” Rehman said on Twitter, under the name “Silent Bomber”.

    Dumb tossers, aren’t they?

  14. Billie says

    Jan 2, 2016 at 6:05 am

    Seems that unstable damaged personalities are drawn towards violent terrorism and Republican politics in equal proportions.

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