British Jihadis Sought To Make 9/11 Look Like Child's Play

Hot Air has the details of how a group of jihadis captured in Britain were contemplating using their wives and kids as cover for suicide missions (and the wife seemingly had no problems as long as it was a significant mission), but the other details are possibly even more chilling. These eight terrorists plotted to not only blow up and attack multiple targets around Britain, but sought to make parts completely uninhabitable for years to come.

Mr Wright also revealed they had drawn up devastating plans to target nuclear power stations, gas and oil refineries, the National Grid and Canary Wharf, the court heard.

Jurors were told their ambitions were "limitless" and they were shown chilling suicide videos in which one alleged plotter promised to leave body parts "decorating the streets".

Prosecutors revealed that as well as discovering alleged plans to blow up transatlantic passenger jets, police found documents which suggested the gang had considered other targets in the UK.

The jury was told that a computer memory stick found by officers concealed in the High Wycombe home of Assad Sarwar contained details of gas terminals, oil refineries, the national grid, and "power stations, including nuclear power stations".

Mr Wright said the targets included Canary Wharf, a gas pipeline which runs between Belgium and the UK and companies which store and process hydrogen peroxide.

"There was also information on Chernobyl, and on UK airports including Heathrow's new control tower," he said.

A diary found in Mr Sarwar's home listed oil and gas refineries at Bacton, Fawley, Correton and Kingsbury, it was alleged.

Mr Wright said: "The horizon in respect of Mr Sarwar's terrorist ambition was, we say, limitless."

The terrorists were hoping to cause such carnage and devastation, that the destruction in Lower Manhattan after 9/11 would be a trifle in comparison. They were looking to blow up 18 passenger lines on transatlantic flights, among other things.

The eight men, Abdul Ahmed Ali, also known as Ahmed Ali Khan, 27, Ibrahim Savant, 27, Arafat Waheed Khan, 26, and Waheed Zaman, 23, all from Walthamstow, east London; Tanvir Hussain, 27, of Leyton, east London, Mohammed Gulzar, 26, of Barking; and Assad Sarwar, 27, and Umar Islam, also known as Brian Young, 29, both of High Wycombe, Bucks, are charged with conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to commit acts of violence against aircraft, but all deny the charges.

They claim that the US, Britain and the Jews must suffer hellfire for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Never mind that the US would not have invaded Iraq or Afghanistan had it not been attacked on 9/11 by al Qaeda. It was al Qaeda's own terror operations that started down this road, and the grievance theater that these particular jihadis is little different than many other terror trials where the jihadis essentially say that the West (the US, Israelis, UK, etc.) had it coming to them for whatever grievance of the day they can drum up.