British Muslim Convert Confesses To Bomb Plot To Blow up NY Stock Exchange :: War on Terror

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October 12, 2006

British Muslim Convert Confesses To Bomb Plot To Blow up NY Stock Exchange

Topics: War on Terror

A British Muslim convert arrested amid a massive U.S. security alert two years ago admitted in a London court on Thursday admitted to plotting to blow up the stock exchange and other U.S. financial hubs including the headquarters of the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, Citigroup and Prudential in Washington, New Jersey and New York:

"Explosions at these premises were clearly designed to kill as many people as possible", said prosecuting lawyer Edmund Lawson.

... He admitted planning strikes on unspecified British targets in a conspiracy called the "Gas Limos Project", which "involved parking three limos with gas cylinders with explosives and detonating them in underground carparks," Lawson said.

Barot admitted another plan to detonate at least one "dirty bomb" contaminated with radiological material in Britain. The prosecution said Barot claimed the dirty bomb was not designed to kill but "rather to cause injury, fear terror and chaos".

As we all know by now, Europe isn't alone in seeing converts to Islam become violent Jihadists.