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October 12, 2006

UK: Muslim Admits Plotting Terror In UK And US

A 34-year old British Muslim living in Willesden, west London, originally from India, has pleaded guilty to plotting terror attacks in Britain and the United States. The news is carried by the BBC, the Guardian, the Daily Mail, Sky News, Ananova, 24 Dash.com and DPA via the Raw Story.

Dhiren Barot was arrested in August 2004 and was today in Woolwich Crown Court. The details of the plots to carry out terror attacks were found on his computer after his arrest, said prosecutor Edmund Lawson.

The targets included the International Monetary Fund (IMF) building and the World Bank in Washington DC, the New York Stock Exchange and Citigroup building in New York, and the Prudential buildings in Newark, New Jersey.

In Britain, he intended to use stretch limousines, packed with gas cylinders and explosives and having them parked in underground car parks, where they would be detonated. This plot was called the "Gas Limos" project.

The least believable of his plots involved plans to use a radiological dispersion device, or "dirty bomb". On his computer, he had labeled this the "Rough Presentation for radiation or Dirty Bomb Project," said Mr Lawson, who stated that this plot aimed to achieve "a number of further and collateral objectives such as to cause injury, fear, terror and chaos."

The "Gas Limos" and "Dirty Bomb" projects were meant to be carried out in a "synchronised, concurrent and back-to-back" way with each other. Lawson said: "The defendant's expressed preference in respect of the radiation project was that 'it deserved to be an independent project in its own right'."

This plot would have been unlikely to cause death, but "considerable fear, panic and social disruption," Lawson claimed. "The radiation project was designed, among other things, to affect some 500 people."

Barot had no materials with which to carry out such an attack, but had pleaded guilty in the morning. The clerk of the court asked Barot: "On count one of this indictment you are charged with conspiracy to murder. The particulars of the offence being that on diverse days between January 1 2000 and August 4 2004, you conspired together with other persons unknown to murder other persons. Do you plead guilty or not guilty?"

Barot responded: "I plead guilty."

Edmund Lawson, QC, said: "These being plans... to carry out explosions at those premises with no warning, they were basically designed to kill as many innocent people as possible."

On the issue of the funding, Mr Lawson said that the Crown had no evidence to contradict the assertion that no funding had been received for the projects, nor vehicles or bomb-making materials which had been acquired "in furtherance of executing the conspiracy".

In the afternoon, Mr Justice Butterfield, the judge, lifted reporting restrictions. Barot had been charged with 12 additional offences. These were one count of conspiracy to commit public nuisance, seven counts of making a record of information for terrorist purposes, and four counts of possessing a record of information for terrorist purposes. Justice Butterfield ordered these to remain on file following the guilty plea on conspiracy to murder.

Barot will be sentenced at a later date. Seven other men are due to face trial next year.

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at October 12, 2006 3:19 PM

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