Friday, December 05, 2008
It could happen here!
Now we have all got over the shock of the Mumbai terrorist massacre, we are left with one haunting thought. Could it happen here in the UK? Unfortunately it could so easily happen here but luckily our security services have already stopped the planning of one attack. Kazi Nurur Rahman, from east London, was associated with the same terrorist group that is accused of the attack in India which killed almost 200 people. He was arrested in a sting operation as he tried to buy three Uzi submachine guns and 3,000 rounds of ammunition. He had talked of buying up to five weapons, hand grenades and as many bullets as possible along with Russian-made rocket-propelled grenades and SAM-7 surface-to-air missiles. He pleaded guilty to offences under the Terrorism Act 2000 and was sentenced to nine years in prison in May 2006.
Rahman, 31, was an associate of Omar Khyam, the leader of a gang plotting to blow up Bluewater shopping centre or the Ministry of Sound nightclub with a fertiliser bomb.
Khyam trained with Lashkar-e-Taiba (Let) the Kashmiri separatist group accused of the Mumbai (formerly Bombay) massacre, before he turned to al-Qaeda.
So, there you have it. There were plans to have this type of terrorist outrage here in the UK. I am glad that I do not have to go into Golders Green bus station when I go to London on my day job!
Now we have all got over the shock of the Mumbai terrorist massacre, we are left with one haunting thought. Could it happen here in the UK? Unfortunately it could so easily happen here but luckily our security services have already stopped the planning of one attack. Kazi Nurur Rahman, from east London, was associated with the same terrorist group that is accused of the attack in India which killed almost 200 people. He was arrested in a sting operation as he tried to buy three Uzi submachine guns and 3,000 rounds of ammunition. He had talked of buying up to five weapons, hand grenades and as many bullets as possible along with Russian-made rocket-propelled grenades and SAM-7 surface-to-air missiles. He pleaded guilty to offences under the Terrorism Act 2000 and was sentenced to nine years in prison in May 2006.
Rahman, 31, was an associate of Omar Khyam, the leader of a gang plotting to blow up Bluewater shopping centre or the Ministry of Sound nightclub with a fertiliser bomb.
Khyam trained with Lashkar-e-Taiba (Let) the Kashmiri separatist group accused of the Mumbai (formerly Bombay) massacre, before he turned to al-Qaeda.
So, there you have it. There were plans to have this type of terrorist outrage here in the UK. I am glad that I do not have to go into Golders Green bus station when I go to London on my day job!
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I don't know anything about the ethnic mix of Welham Green but the large number of Jews around Golders Green would make a spectacular target for the Islamists.
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