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Plot to behead British Soldier

An unemployed charity worker from Birmingham has pleaded guilty to plotting to kidnap and behead a Muslim British soldier.

Parviz Khan, 37, hatched the plot to kidnap and murder the soldier and take part in the sending of equipment to terrorists operating in Pakistan on the Afghan border, Leicester Crown Court was told.

Basiru Gassama, 30, admitted knowing about the plot but not telling anyone about it.Two other men, Mohammed Irfan, 31, and Hamid Elasmar, 44, pleaded guilty to helping Khan supply the equipment.

The guilty pleas were entered earlier this month but their reporting was restricted until the start of the trial of two other men charged alongside the four.

Amjad Mahmood, 32, has denied knowing about Khan's plot. Zahoor Iqbal, 30, denies possessing a document or record likely to be useful to a terrorist, namely a computer disc called Encyclopaedia Jihad.Both men have also pleaded not guilty to helping Khan to supply equipment to terrorists in Pakistan.

Update:

Beheading plot ringleader gets life

The ringleader of a plot to behead a Muslim soldier in the British army "like a pig" and release a video of the murder to the media was jailed for at least 14 years on Monday. Parviz Khan, 37, was described in court as a violent Islamic extremist who wanted to spread panic among the armed forces and the wider public.

Prosecutors said the British and Pakistani passport holder was angry that Muslims were serving in the British army, which militants portray as fighting Islam in Iraq and Afghanistan. The father-of-three pleaded guilty last month to charges including the beheading plot, which was foiled by police and the MI5 security service a year ago. Khan also admitted sending equipment such as night-vision cameras, balaclavas and computers to Pakistan to be used by militants fighting U.S. and British troops in Afghanistan. During the trial in Leicester, prosecutor Nigel Rumfitt said Khan was "a man who has the most violent and extreme Islamist views".

The British security services bugged Khan talking about the plot, saying "young Blair is going to go crazy", a reference to the then prime minister Tony Blair.

Khan planned to enlist drug dealers to help kidnap a Muslim soldier on a night out in Birmingham,the victim was to be seized, bundled into a car and taken to a lock-up garage.

"He would be murdered by having his head cut off like a pig," Rumfitt said. Prosecutors said the expression "like a pig" was Khan's own. Film of the killing would be released to Arab television station Al Jazeera.

Several other men were also on trial with Khan. Basiru Gassama, 30, was jailed for two years for failing to disclose information about the plot. Mohammed Irfan, 32, Zahoor Iqbal, 30, and Hamid Elasmar, 44, all from Birmingham, were jailed for between three and seven years for related charges under anti-terrorism laws.

Amjad Mahmood, 32, was cleared of helping to supply equipment and failing to disclose information about the kidnap plot.

The head of the British army General Sir Richard Dannatt said: "I welcome the conviction of a group of men who were prepared to conduct such a cowardly and grotesque attack against members of the army based solely on their religion." Outside court, the Crown Prosecution Service's Rose-Marie Fenton described the plot as "cold-blooded and brutal".

Unemployed and living off the benefits that the country they hate so much gives them, hardly proud muslims then, as they are begging from the unbelievers, what sort of life is that?

Again our judges don't see the need to deport these people at the end of their sentences, why not? This man has a pakistani passport, surely he should lose the right to remain in the uk because of his offences?

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