Our first generic youth will be doing his time in Britain. He got his kicks imagining just how many Brits he could kill in one attack.

Scotsman: LONDON (Reuters) - A suspected al Qaeda operative watched impassively in court on Monday as prosecutors played shaky hand-held video of the New York Stock Exchange and other U.S. financial targets he has admitted planning to bomb.

Briton Dhiren Barot, 34, pleaded guilty last month to conspiracy to murder in connection with planned attacks in the United States and Britain -- the latter including the use of a "dirty bomb" laced with radiological material.
Also found were encrypted files containing the plans for the U.S. attacks, which police cracked with the help of a code word discovered during investigations in Pakistan…

"Barot suggested as possible targets the Heathrow Express or an explosion on a tube train whilst in a tunnel under the Thames.

"As to the last, he wrote 'imagine the chaos that would be caused if a powerful explosion were to rip through here and actually rupture the river itself. This would cause pandemonium, what with the explosions, flooding, drowning etc that would result."

Update: Dhiren Barot has been sentenced to life in prison, Hooray!

More on his transformation into a terrorist here.

Times of London: ut in his early twenties he abandoned his Hindu faith and plans for a career in hotel management and answered the call to jihad against the West, converting to Islam.

After attending a lecture by the now-jailed cleric Abu Hamza, where he was told of the Mujahidin and the concept of jihad, Barot began to frequently discuss how to help "oppressed" Islamic people abroad....

...When he returned to the UK it is thought he established links with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, thought to be the "principal architect" of 9/11.

Via Chron: MILAN, Italy — An Egyptian wanted in connection with the 2004 Madrid train bombings was convicted on Monday on international terrorism charges in Italy and sentenced to 10 years in prison.

The court in Milan convicted 35-year-old Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed and Yahi Ragheh _ a 23-year-old prosecutors said was preparing to be a suicide bomber _ of subversive association aimed at international terrorism, a charge introduced after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States. The younger man was given a five-year term.

Both men were led from the courtroom in handcuffs. Ahmed, who just a few minutes earlier had been joking with guards, refused to comment to reporters.

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