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A Briton who allegedly tried to buy missiles to shoot down airliners
has been jailed, it has emerged following the Old Bailey fertiliser
bomb trial.

Reporting restrictions covering the conviction of Kazi Nurur Rahman
have been lifted.

Rahman, 29, was arrested in November 2005 after trying to buy three
Uzi sub-machine guns in a police sting.

He pleaded guilty and was jailed for nine years but details were kept
secret because of his links to the defendants.

Rahman was arrested only four months after the 7 July attacks in
London and when sentencing him in May last year (2006) the judge, Mr
Justice David Calvert-Smith, said: These negotiations were conducted
in the immediate aftermath of the worst terrorist outrage ever
perpetrated on these shores.

What was intended was the deaths of large numbers of people in this
country.

When Rahmans home in Manor Park, east London was searched police
found literature relating to the 9/11 martyrs and details of
guerrilla warfare and how to execute prisoners.

Rahman, also known as Abdul Haleem, was friendly with several of the
defendants and had trained in the same camps in Pakistan.

Risk to air traffic

The prosecutions star witness, Mohammed Babar, told the Old Bailey
Rahman was the head of a cell in east London.

David Farrell, QC, prosecuting, said: The terrorist purpose, which
the defendant accepts by his plea but does not define, was to cause
death, injury and damage for the religious and political purposes of
al-Qaeda.

This purchase was intended to be the first of other purchases, he
being in negotiation...for the purchase of even more potentially
deadly terrorist weapons, including a Sam-7 missile and
rocket-propelled grenades
David Farrell QC

The potential risk to air traffic is all too obvious, he added.

He was not arrested when Khyam and the others were picked up but the
security services kept him under surveillance and finally lured him
into a trap using undercover officers posing as Muslim arms dealers.

One of the officers, posing as Mohamed, offered to sell him the
guns, together with silencers and 3,000 rounds of ammunition. Rahman
offered to pay Ł1,000 per gun.

David Farrell QC, prosecuting, said: This purchase was intended to be
the first of other purchases, he being in negotiation, albeit in the
early stages of negotiation, for the purchase of even more potentially
deadly terrorist weapons, including a Sam-7 missile and
rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs).

Rahman was quoted a price of around Ł70,000 for the missiles and RPGs,
a figure which he said was no problem.

On 29 November 2005 Rahman met Mohamed at South Mimms services on the
M25 and handed over some money.

He then met another undercover officer, Iqbal, and they drove to a
cul-de-sac in nearby Welham Green, Hertfordshire.

There Iqbal showed Rahman a van and inside was a suitcase containing
the guns, wrapped in black plastic bags.

Mr Farrell said: Rahman got out of the van and told Iqbal to put the
suitcase in the back of his vehicle and they would leave that location
and find a better, safer place for the exchange.

Iqbal refused to do this. Rahman also stated that he wanted to see
the ammunition, which had not been brought to the location for safety
reasons.

Armed officers

Iqbal told him the ammunition was nearby. Rahman was unhappy and said
it looked like a sting.

He returned to his vehicle and telephoned Mohamed. At this point
armed officers intervened and Rahman was arrested.

When interviewed by police Rahman claimed he was working for MI5, who
had recruited him 10 years earlier.

But, in pleading guilty to attempting to possess property intending it
should be used for the purpose of terrorism, he later accepted this
story was untrue.

It also emerged that Rahman had been interviewed by a British TV
reporter in Lahore, Pakistan in October 2001 and had spoken of Muslim
volunteers from the UK fighting British troops in Afghanistan.

Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke: This is another example
of where we have been able to take pre-emptive action to protect the
public from the threat of terrorism. Whenever the evidence allows us
to take such action, we will do so.

In 1995 Rahman was arrested and charged in connection with the death
of Ayotunde Obanubi, a Nigerian student who was stabbed to death
outside Newham College in east London.

Charges were dropped against Rahman but his co-defendant, Saeed Nur,
27, was jailed for life and another friend, Umran Qadir, 18, was
ordered to be detained at Her Majestys Pleasure for his involvement
in the killing.

The murder trial heard that the killing arose because of tension
between Muslim and non-Muslim students at the college.

Steve Greene wrote:

So? Why reposting bbc web site when we can read news ourselves?

On Tue, 01 May 2007 04:43:31 GMT, johannes
wrote:



Its because hes a CUNT.

JAF wrote in message
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At least a cunt is useful, something neither of you will ever be:-))

JAF wrote in message
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At least a cunt is useful, something neither of you will ever be:-))

jb wrote:

How do you know hes a useful cunt???

On Tue, 01 May 2007 15:18:43 GMT, jb wrote:


Exceptionaly well put!

Barry
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He He He Tee Hee Hee
On this the 01/05/2007 16:45:56 AD in the final year of Blairs Bullshit.

Barry wrote:

Put where?