BBC: Man 'planned massive explosions'

[OKIsItJustMe]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6120560.stm

Man 'planned massive explosions'

A Muslim convert planned to detonate a dirty bomb and launch an attack on London's Tube, a court has been told.

Former Hindu Dhiren Barot, 34, from London, plotted "massive explosions" in a synchronised attack in the US and UK.

Barot, who last month admitted conspiracy to murder, wanted to pack limousines with gas cylinders and also use a radioactive "dirty" bomb.

Lawyers for Barot have insisted that he had neither funding nor bomb-making materials at the time he was caught.

Barot, from Kingsbury in north-west London, described by prosecutors as "a member or close associate" of al-Qaeda is to be sentenced on Tuesday.

"The plan was to carry out massive explosions here and in the USA, the principal object being to kill hundreds, if not thousands, of innocent people without warning," prosecutor Edmund Lawson QC told Woolwich Crown Court.

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[leftofthedial]

1. well that does it

I'd better vote for Republicans then.

[Justitia]

2. LOL! -eom

[sugapablo]

27. What was Borat thinking? :) n/t

[aquart]

3. Did he possess any radioactive material?

[Warpy]

10. Thought crime!

"Lawyers for Barot have insisted that he had neither funding nor bomb-making materials at the time he was caught."

I hope they never discover some of the places I think would be appropriate for a few bunker busters, RPGs, mortars, grenade launchers.

After all, since we can now be busted for idle thoughts when we don't have the means (or the inclination, really) to carry them out, every single one of us from kids who are mad at their parents, men who hate their mothers in law to people who are angry at the government, are breaking their laws.

Who are the brain police?

[aquart]

12. Another timely terror arrest going nowhere.

[liberal N proud]

4. They are keeping us safer, fighting them over there...

That is why we don't have any rights over here.

[AIJ Alom]

14. Actually they are fighting them in their heads, so they don't have to

face them in the real world. We're trying to win over hearts and minds. Freedom's over-rated anyway and isn't it the army with the saying Freedom isn't Free ? So let's chain up freedom and make it only accesible to people that grovel at our feet at the sight of apache attack helicopters, abrahams tanks, and stryker rapid response vehicles.

[Journeyman]

5. His name aBarot and he no have no money or no skills. . .

but he terrible bad man so we must vote for Premier George Walter Bush (or maybe his father, Barbara, who very much stronger). Nice.

[kurth]

16. Supreme Warlord Premier

Please don't insult Our Leader with an abbreviated title.

[roguenkatz]

6. Here a preview of the dirty bomb

he planed to release in the U.S....

[Turbineguy]

11. That's dirty alright

SEX!!! FILTHY SEX!!!

[rsmith6621]

7. Better Vote Republican So...

....People in Great Britain Don't have to worry about TERROR..:sarcasm:

Another attempt at a Pre-Election surprise.

[eliphaslevi]

8. My plan to build a UFO craft is more realistic

All I'm missing is a super capacitor to power the outer hull. Anyone have a spare?

[Brundle_Fly]

21. no super capacitor...

but I have a flux capacitor, very similar to your moisture vaporator's in most respects.

shutting up sir.

[rodeodance]

9. oh yeah--bring up this story the day before US elections.!!

[doublethink]

13. WTF?

Hey rodeodance .... I knew I read this article before somewhere ... LIKE LAST MONTH ..... link here http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6044938.stm AND IT'S PRETTY MUCH THE SAME STORY BUT DATED OCT 12TH! Does the BBC usually re-print this stuff like this? Anyway the guy was arrested in 2004 .... yea old news. Peace. :)

[kurth]

15. "He had neither funding nor bomb-making materials"

There ya go.

[AIJ Alom]

17. Yup, winning hearts and minds I tell ya, and if we can't do that then

just lock'em up.

[geek tragedy]

18. You can conspire to commit murder without

owning a gun.

[The Stranger]

23. Oh Please.

Everyone on this board sees through this bullshit, the pattern of politically-timed arrests of patsies and the string of failures when these are pursued in the Courts (thus the need to get rid of the Courts).

[geek tragedy]

24. Which is why he he pleaded guilty.. eom

[The Stranger]

26. You actually think someone is guilty when they plead guilty?

Holy shit, man. Learn something about criminal law.

[geek tragedy]

28. Do you have a law degree? eom

[The Stranger]

29. No, but I watch CSI and Matlock reruns.

[geek tragedy]

31. In that case, I bow to your expertise. eom

[AIJ Alom]

19. Meanwhile somewhere in the United States there is a wannabe dictator

with blood on his hands who lied to an entire nation to go to war.

[GregW]

20. Video up now of the press conference...

http://www.blarfy.com/files/movies/sarsSNLSkitWithRobertDinero.wmv">Click here

[AIJ Alom]

22. Anyone seen Osama yet, because when they need a good scare

they mention him, and then when they're called on not apprehending the terrorist, they say that he has been marginalized. Circular logic bozos.

[D-Notice]

25. But still no mention of the BNP terror plot

http://d-notice.blogspot.com/2006/10/white-people-are-terrorists-too.html

[Thrublue]

30. Bull!

[Roland99]

32. *Wanted* to use a "dirty bomb"? Hell, I *want* to have sex with Elizabeth Hurley...

$100 tells me I have the better odds (however remote they may be) :D

[stepnw1f]

33. desperate

[Lydia Leftcoast]

34. Perhaps one of those nuts who confesses to crimes he never committed?

:shrug:

[buddysmellgood]

35. Barot must have been bullied in a U.S. high school.