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| Man to be sentenced in British bomb plot
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One of the top al-Qaida operatives known to have been captured in Britain appeared in court amid heavy security Monday for sentencing in a plot to bomb the
New York Stock Exchange, the
International Monetary Fund headquarters in Washington and to use a dirty bomb in London.
Dhiren Barot, 34, started plotting six years ago for a "memorable black day for the enemies of Islam," prosecutor Edmund Lawson said at the hearing, which was punctuated by a dramatic moment when prosecutors showed a March 2001 video shot while Barot was in New York. The camera zooms into the World Trade Center and a man is then heard mimicking the sound of an explosion.
"This, we have to bear in mind, was five months before 9/11," Lawson said.
Flanked by two guards, Barot sat expressionless behind a glass wall as the proceedings began. He pleaded guilty last month to conspiring to commit mass murder in terrorist plots on both sides of the Atlantic. He faces a life sentence.
The criminal plot was to carry out massive explosions in Britain and in the United States, and was meant to kill "hundreds if not thousands of innocent people without warning," Lawson said.
Barot planned to cram three limousines with gas cylinders and explosives and detonate them in underground London parking garages, Lawson said. He also identified London hotels such as The Ritz and The Savoy, and railway stations such as London's Waterloo, Paddington and King's Cross as targets. Other attacks in Britain included using a dirty bomb, although experts question whether it would have been lethal.
In computer files recovered by police, Lawson said Barot planned to bomb a subway train as it traveled through a tunnel under the River Thames.
"If a powerful explosion were to rip through here and actually rupture the river itself, this would cause pandemonium ... explosions, flooding, drowning," Barot wrote in the computer documents found, according to Lawson. | Man to be sentenced in British bomb plot - Yahoo! News
Talk about making your blood run cold. All of his twisted plot is awful but the one I highlighted literally turned my stomach. The excitement he seems to exhbit at the terrifying deaths he wanted to inflict on tube passenger just makes me feel ill. How could anyone contemplate this? |
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