{"id":319921,"date":"2017-08-02T12:08:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T11:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/three-musketeers-terror-gang-found-guilty-of-planning-lee-rigby-style-attack\/"},"modified":"2017-08-02T12:08:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T11:08:23","slug":"three-musketeers-terror-gang-found-guilty-of-planning-lee-rigby-style-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/three-musketeers-terror-gang-found-guilty-of-planning-lee-rigby-style-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Three Musketeers\u2019 terror gang found guilty of planning Lee Rigby-style attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Members of a terror cell that dubbed themselves the \u201cThree Musketeers\u201d have been found guilty of plotting a Lee Rigby-style attack following a partly-secret trial at the Old Bailey.<\/p>\n

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Naweed Ali, 29, Khobaib Hussain, 25, of Birmingham, and Mohibur Rahman, 32, were convicted after the jury deliberated for 22 hours.<\/p>\n

A fourth man, Tahir Aziz, 38, from Stoke-on-Trent, was also found guilty of preparing terrorist acts.<\/p>\n

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Naweed Ali, Khobaib Hussain and Mohibur Rahman guilty of planning a knife and bomb attack.<\/p>\n

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The court heard the men from the Midlands were poised to strike police and military targets on British soil but were foiled by undercover MI5 agents.<\/p>\n

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They had collected a small arsenal including a half-made pipe bomb and a meat cleaver with the word \u2018Kafir\u2019 etched into the blade, and used a Musketeers image from the Disney cartoon movie as a logo on encrypted Telegram messages.<\/p>\n

Hussain and Ali had already been convicted of terrorist offences after they went to training camps in Pakistan, according to Metro. They were snared a second time after security services set up a delivery firm called \u2018Hero Couriers.\u2019<\/p>\n

The firm rented premises in Birmingham city center and hired Hussain for \u00a3100 pounds a day – even issuing him with a t-shirt and high-visibility vest bearing the company logo – as he was dispatched on jobs around the country.<\/p>\n

An undercover officer known only as \u2018Vincent\u2019 spotted Hussain carrying a drawstring JD Sports bag, which was later found in Ali\u2019s car in Birmingham.<\/p>\n

In the bag was the meat cleaver and half-made pipe bomb. Other items included an air pistol imitation handgun with an empty magazine taped to the side of it, 11 more shotgun carriages, a live unfired 9mm bullet, a roll of gaffer tape and a pair of black latex gloves.<\/p>\n

The bag prompted a major security alert in the area around Florence Street. The city went into lockdown with the Army\u2019s bomb squad tasked with making sure the bomb would not explode.<\/p>\n

When the three men were arrested they denied knowledge of the bag and claimed \u2018Vincent\u2019 had planted it to frame them.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said the defendants shared the \u201csame radical belief in violent jihad\u201d<\/em> and were planning a knife rampage that could be executed \u201cimminently.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Via RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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