Terrorists
Clockwise from top left Mohammed Irfan, Hamid Elasmar, Amjad Mahmood,
Zahoor Iqbal, Parviz Khan and Basiru Gassama

A group of six British muslims who have built up a terrorists cell in Birmingham are at trial for their plot to kidnap a muslim soldier and behead him ‘like a pig’. They planned to film the attack in order to put panic and fear in the ranks of the British military and public.

This same group has raised and sent money and equipment to Pakistan to be used by terrorists in attempts to kill British soldiers on the Afghan border.

Prosecutor Nigel Rumfitt QC said Khan wanted to get “physically involved” in the bloodshed but was prevented by “his bosses overseas” because his supply operation was so valued.

Instead, the court heard, he hatched the plot to kill a soldier in the UK.

He decided to target a Muslim fighting in the British Army and asked another member of the cell to identify a potential victim.

Mr Rumfitt said: “The prosecution say that Parviz Khan is a fanatic.

“He is a man who has the most violent and extreme views. Khan was enraged by the idea that there were Muslim soldiers in the British Army, some of them from the Gambia in West Africa.

“He decided to kidnap such a soldier with the help of drug dealers in Birmingham.

“The soldier would be approached in the Broad Street nightlife area, lured into a car and taken to a lock-up garage and murdered with his head cut off - “like a pig”.

“This atrocity would be filmed. They would have the soldier’s military card to prove who he was.”

The court heard that the film would be released through Khan’s terrorist network to the Al Jazeera TV station.