Man admits US-UK "dirty bomb" terror plot

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A man has pleaded guilty to conspiring to murder people in terrorist campaigns in Britain and the US.
Dhiren Barot, of north London, planned to use a radioactive "dirty bomb" in one of a series of attacks, Woolwich Crown Court has heard.
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The plans were for attacks on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank buildings in Washington, the New York Stock Exchange and Citigroup buildings in New York and the Prudential buildings in Newark, New Jersey.

More at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6044938.stm

Would seem congrats are in order to the police and security services on (presumably) both sides of the Atlantic.

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Was he Irish, Muslim, Catholic, environmentalist, abortionist, anti-abortionist, member of congress, etc?

I can't tell if this is good unless you at least tell me which party he belongs to.

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Didn't you hear?

This is all just a conspiracy to make the general public frightened so that war mongers stay in power.

There is no threat! And if there is a threat, we should prepare by beefing up the capability of first responders!

People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

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However, he did not dispute claims from the defence that no funding had been received for the projects, nor any vehicles or bomb-making materials acquired.

Sounds like a wanabe, so he had a plan to use a Radiological Dispersal Device but no materials or funding, or even a car. Maybe he intended to get some HEU or Caesium from K Mart on special

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I have a plan to steal all the gold in Fort Knox, now all I need is a Jumbo Jet, a squadron of fighter Jets a battalion of special forces and a deal with North Korea. (But don't tell anybody!)

Of course all I currently have is a paper aeroplane, a pen knife and a agreement with the local Chineese to deliver food. I guess I'm on the run now!

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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hehe, I've been plotting for ages to sleep with a number of supermodels and Hollywood starletts....

Not really got any idea how I'm gonna ever achieve the goal.... but it is a plan of mine.

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Looks like that article has been updated since I posted the link.

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hehe, I've been plotting for ages to sleep with a number of supermodels and Hollywood starletts....

Not really got any idea how I'm gonna ever achieve the goal.... but it is a plan of mine.

Hey, you stole part of my plan, but I also intend to become Emperor of the Universe.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6123236.stmAl-Qaeda plotter jailed for life

An al-Qaeda plotter who planned to kill thousands of people in the UK and US has been sentenced to life and told he must serve at least 40 years in jail.
Dhiren Barot, 34 and from London, had admitted conspiracy to murder. He was sentenced at Woolwich Crown Court.

Edmund Lawson QC, prosecuting, told the court Barot had planned to unleash a "memorable black day" of terror.

Mr Justice Butterfield said it could have caused carnage on a "colossal and unprecedented scale" if successful.

'No noble cause'

Barot, a former Hindu who converted to Islam, is also wanted by US authorities over charges of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction in the US and in Yemen.

The judge told him: "This was no noble cause. Your plans were to bring indiscriminate carnage, bloodshed and butchery first in Washington, New York and Newark, and thereafter the UK on a colossal and unprecedented scale."

After Barot was sentenced, Home Secretary John Reid said the case showed "the terrorist threat remains very real and serious".

The prosecution conceded the police had not found any evidence that materials had been acquired to carry out the plans, but said officers had also failed to find weapons to which Barot had access.

Defence lawyer Ian Macdonald QC referred to the main part of the conspiracy as, in Barot's words, a "rough presentation".

Mr Justice Butterfield said that Barot had not achieved any of his terror goals and that, on the evidence, he had not "moved to the final stages of achieving them". But he added that this was no thanks to him.

Mass damage

The court heard Barot prepared meticulous plans for al-Qaeda figures on a series of synchronised attacks in the UK.

"The central plan was for the construction and deployment in a basement car park underneath a building of an improvised explosive device using gas cylinders hidden in limousines," Mr Lawson said.

Mr Lawson added it was to be launched simultaneously with other attacks including a dirty bomb, an attack on trains, and the hijacking of petrol tankers to be rammed into a target.

In the document, Barot had written his primary objective of the project was to "inflict mass damage and chaos".

The court heard Barot's plot also included plans to detonate a bomb under the River Thames to flood the Tube network and potentially drown hundreds of commuters.

Barot also planned to strike a number of US financial institutions. His plans for bombings in the US were initiated before the 11 September attacks, and Barot is not thought to have had any advance knowledge of them.

Barot's plans were found on a laptop computer seized during a raid on a house in Gujarat, Pakistan, in July 2004. The Muslim convert, from Kingsbury, north-west London, was arrested by armed police the next month.

Scotland Yard's anti-terrorist branch head, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke, called Barot a "determined and experienced terrorist" who attended training camps in 1995.

"For well over two years we have been unable to show the British public the reality of the threat they faced from this man. Now they can see for themselves the full horror of his plan."

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Maybe he intended to get some HEU or Caesium from K Mart on special

LOL

Well put!

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