UK: Man admits to beheading plot [Updated]

Parviz Khan and co-conspiritors

If this doesn't disturb you, I don't know what will:

A man described as a "fanatic" has pleaded guilty to plotting to kidnap and kill a British Muslim soldier.

Parviz Khan, 37, an unemployed charity worker from Birmingham, intended to seize and behead the serviceman "like a pig", Leicester Crown Court was told.

Three other men, Basiru Gassama, 30, Mohammed Irfan, 31, and Hamid Elasmar, 44, have admitted other offences connected with Khan's plot.
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The jury was told how Khan, of Alum Rock, intended to use drug dealers to kidnap the soldier while on a night out, behead him in a lock-up garage and then release footage of the killing to the public.
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"He would be taken to a lock-up garage and there he would be murdered by having his head cut off like a pig," he said.

"This atrocity would be filmed... and the film released to cause panic and fear within the British armed forces and the wider public."

Besides the prospective beheading, there is something else disturbing here. Do you see something out of place in the photo above?

The three men in the bottom half of the photo are Basiru Gassama, Mohammed Irfan, and Hamid Elasmar. In the article, Gassama is identified as a Gambian national, but what are the other two? I could certainly be wrong, but they don't look the slightest bit like Arabs or Pakistanis to me. More likely, they are part of a growing trend of Western Europeans converting to radical Islam, particularly in the prison system. The problem is largest in the UK and France, where over half the prison population is Muslim.

UPDATE 30/01/2008 11:53:00:
Little Green Footballs discusses this story, with a larger photo of Parviz Khan. As Charles Johnson astutely points out, notice the dark spot on Mr. Khan's forehead? Those are callouses on the forehead, a tell-tale mark of some of the most radical Muslims, who grind their forehead into the carpet five times a day during their prayers.




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