四名男子讨论发动恐怖袭击 被英国警方逮捕（玩具车装炸 ...

四名男子讨论发动恐怖袭击 被英国警方逮捕

中新网4月18日电
据外电报道，4名男子因讨论使用自制枪支与炸弹发动恐怖袭击的计划而被英国警方逮捕。

四位分别名为伊科巴尔(Zahid Iqbal)、阿赫迈迪(Mohammed Sharfaraz Ahmed)、阿尔沙德(Umar Arshad)与侯赛因(Syed Farhan Hussain)的男子于今年3月认罪，承认准备发动恐怖主义袭击。

检察官称，这4名男子从网上下载了含有袭击指南的文件，购买了求生设备，并筹集了恐怖活动资金。他们还承认“推动、计划与鼓励”赴海外进行恐怖主义活动。

18日，伦敦乌尔威治刑事法庭判处伊科巴尔与阿赫迈迪16年3个月监禁;阿尔沙德获刑6年9个月监禁，侯赛因被判5年3个月监禁。



链接地址：http://news.qq.com/a/20130418/001364.htm


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4 UK men jailed for toy-car terror plot

By PAISLEY DODDS and CASSANDRA VINOGRAD | Associated Press  



LONDON (AP) — The terror plot involved targeting British reservetroops using a toy-car packed with explosives.

But investigators said Thursday Britain's domestic spy agency of MI5 and police were able to stop Zahid Iqbal, Mohammed Sharfaraz Ahmed, Umar Arshad and Syed Farhan Hussain before they could launch the deadly attack.

Iqbal and Ahmed were given extended sentences of 16 years and 3 months, which means they will be in jail for more than 11 years and put on parole for the rest of the time. Arshad was sentenced to more than six years in jail, while Hussain received more than five years.

The British men — aged between 22 and 31 — pleaded guilty in March to engaging in conduct in preparation for acts of terrorism.

The four were arrested a year ago in the town of Luton, north of London, after an operation by police and the MI5.

Prosecutors said the Britons downloaded files containing instructions for an attack, bought survival equipment and collected money for terrorist purposes. They also admitted "facilitating, planning and encouraging" overseas travel for terrorist purposes.

The men were recorded discussing sending a remote-controlled toy car carrying a homemade bomb under the gates of an army reservist center in Luton and speaking of using instructions in an al-Qaida manual to make an improvised explosive device.

"Using a toy-car as an explosive device may seem childish, but if they had succeeded in pulling this off, the consequences could have resulted in deaths and injuries, much like we have seen in recent days in Boston," said a British security official with knowledge of the investigation and who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to be named.

The court heard that Iqbal had direct contacts with a Pakistani operative and helped Ahmed travel to Pakistan in 2011 for terror training.

Prosecutors also said the men gained inspiration from the 2010 first issue of "Inspire," an online English-language magazine from Yemen's al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula and linked to the U.S.-born militant cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. The militant leader was killed in 2011 in a drone strike.

The same online magazine gave instructions on how to build a "pressure cooker" bomb — the same type of explosive device that was used in Monday's attack at the Boston Marathon when three people were killed and more than 100 were wounded.
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四名男子讨论发动恐怖袭击 被英国警方逮捕

中新网4月18日电
据外电报道，4名男子因讨论使用自制枪支与炸弹发动恐怖袭击的计划而被英国警方逮捕。

四位分别名为伊科巴尔(Zahid Iqbal)、阿赫迈迪(Mohammed Sharfaraz Ahmed)、阿尔沙德(Umar Arshad)与侯赛因(Syed Farhan Hussain)的男子于今年3月认罪，承认准备发动恐怖主义袭击。

检察官称，这4名男子从网上下载了含有袭击指南的文件，购买了求生设备，并筹集了恐怖活动资金。他们还承认“推动、计划与鼓励”赴海外进行恐怖主义活动。

18日，伦敦乌尔威治刑事法庭判处伊科巴尔与阿赫迈迪16年3个月监禁;阿尔沙德获刑6年9个月监禁，侯赛因被判5年3个月监禁。



链接地址：http://news.qq.com/a/20130418/001364.htm


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4 UK men jailed for toy-car terror plot

By PAISLEY DODDS and CASSANDRA VINOGRAD | Associated Press  



LONDON (AP) — The terror plot involved targeting British reservetroops using a toy-car packed with explosives.

But investigators said Thursday Britain's domestic spy agency of MI5 and police were able to stop Zahid Iqbal, Mohammed Sharfaraz Ahmed, Umar Arshad and Syed Farhan Hussain before they could launch the deadly attack.

Iqbal and Ahmed were given extended sentences of 16 years and 3 months, which means they will be in jail for more than 11 years and put on parole for the rest of the time. Arshad was sentenced to more than six years in jail, while Hussain received more than five years.

The British men — aged between 22 and 31 — pleaded guilty in March to engaging in conduct in preparation for acts of terrorism.

The four were arrested a year ago in the town of Luton, north of London, after an operation by police and the MI5.

Prosecutors said the Britons downloaded files containing instructions for an attack, bought survival equipment and collected money for terrorist purposes. They also admitted "facilitating, planning and encouraging" overseas travel for terrorist purposes.

The men were recorded discussing sending a remote-controlled toy car carrying a homemade bomb under the gates of an army reservist center in Luton and speaking of using instructions in an al-Qaida manual to make an improvised explosive device.

"Using a toy-car as an explosive device may seem childish, but if they had succeeded in pulling this off, the consequences could have resulted in deaths and injuries, much like we have seen in recent days in Boston," said a British security official with knowledge of the investigation and who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to be named.

The court heard that Iqbal had direct contacts with a Pakistani operative and helped Ahmed travel to Pakistan in 2011 for terror training.

Prosecutors also said the men gained inspiration from the 2010 first issue of "Inspire," an online English-language magazine from Yemen's al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula and linked to the U.S.-born militant cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. The militant leader was killed in 2011 in a drone strike.

The same online magazine gave instructions on how to build a "pressure cooker" bomb — the same type of explosive device that was used in Monday's attack at the Boston Marathon when three people were killed and more than 100 were wounded.
来源：
http://news.yahoo.com/4-uk-men-jailed-toy-car-terror-plot-121629664.html