How the Preachers of Hate Turned Suburban Boys Into Zealots Bent On Mass Murder ; Home-Grown Terror
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A MALE model, an aspiring England cricketer, a gas man, a student and a taxi driver. Hardly a gang of desperadoes, it would seem.
Yet these five British Muslims formed a home-grown Al Qaeda cell which hoped to pull off the UK's worst terrorist atrocity in revenge for the Iraq war.See the full content of this document
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How the Preachers of Hate Turned Suburban Boys Into Zealots Bent On Mass Murder ; Home-Grown Terror
They fantasised about killing hundreds of innocent strangers whose only 'crime' was to be British.
They discussed blowing up the House of Commons, hijacking airliners for a 9/11-style attack, poisoning beer and burgers at football matches and even buying a nuclear bomb from the Russian mafia.Eventually they settled on a plan to bomb the Bluewater shopping centre in Kent or the Ministry of Sound nightclub in London using a remote- controlled explosive containing 1,300lb of fertiliser.Key members of the plot had been radicalised by preachers Abu Hamza and Omar Bakri Mohammed, who were for years allowed to sp...See the full content of this document
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