Birmingham woman, 21, guilty of aiding knife terror plot

[marcus300]

Birmingham woman, 21, guilty of aiding knife terror plot - BBC News

A 21-year-old woman has been found guilty of buying a combat knife to help her husband prepare to carry out a planned terror attack in Birmingham.

Madihah Taheer, from the city, denied preparing an act of terrorism by assisting her husband Ummariyat Mirza earlier this year.

Woolwich Crown Court heard the husband and wife team had developed their plans after falling in love as teenagers.

In March, armed police arrested the husband at gunpoint in Birmingham.
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They acted on MI5 intelligence that Mirza was going to carry out a rampaging knife attack, similar to those seen this year in London.

His arrest on 29 March came exactly one week after the Westminster Bridge terror attack in London.

The court was told the pair had initially hoped to travel to Syria to aid the Islamic State group - but decided to carry out an attack in their home city instead.

Taheer also allowed her debit card to be used to buy a plastic knife and a lifelike training dummy so that her husband could practise an attack, the court heard.

The dummy was found in their home with slash marks on the forehead, across the throat and abdomen.

The jury at Woolwich Crown Court took less than a day to convict Taheer.

The jurors were shown a text message that Taheer sent to Mirza in September 2015, before the couple were married. "Can we get married already," she wrote. "I want u to kill ppl for me. I have a list."

The court was shown another message she sent to Mirza a month later, where Taheer said it was her "dream" to hurt or kill a person the pair both knew.

He responded by sending her a video of him making stabbing motions towards a chair - and asking her to buy him a knife.

Mirza, a former accountant, pleaded guilty to the plotting charge earlier this month.

His older sister, Zainub Mirza, pleaded guilty in October to sending him terrorist material, including a video showing an IS hostage being beheaded.

All three will be sentenced at a later date.

Sue Hemming, of the Crown Prosecution Service, said there was "little doubt" that Mirza had the knife to carry out a terror attack in the UK.

"The prosecution's case was that his wife was a willing accomplice who bought the knife knowing what he was planning to do," she said.

"This couple posed a serious threat to the public in Britain and now face the prospect of time in prison where they will no longer be a danger."

[kelkel]

What a POS.

[marcus300]

Really gets me going, what is wrong with these people Kel? why not just live in peace and get on with our life's without being afraid. I struggle with these types

[kelkel]

People with no direction in life falling into a religious trap.

[marcus300]

People with no direction in life falling into a religious trap.

To right, all in a fairy tale world

[thisAngelBites]

People with no direction in life falling into a religious trap.

I was going to say something similar: side effects of religion. I remember the good old days when people thought their religion was a strictly private matter. Of course in the even older days there were the crusades, so maybe it's just cyclic and killing people to glorify deities will be out of fashion again soon. I certainly hope so.

This reminds me of that aussie guy that Marcus used to torment who said he believed in god bc of pascal's wager, i.e. that he would choose to believe in a god for the express purpose of potentially getting benefits, as the god would then be forced to give him eternal life, etc. just bc he believed in said god.

In spite of the many crazy posts here (people injecting themselves but not understanding how to measure on a syringe come to mind), I think worshipping a god that is so dumb that even a dimwit could outsmart it in such a way as pascal and this guy thought had to be my all-time favourite stupid thing I read on the forum.

What ever happened to that guy? Is he still off farming strawberries or whatever?

[marcus300]

I was going to say something similar: side effects of religion. I remember the good old days when people thought their religion was a strictly private matter. Of course in the even older days there were the crusades, so maybe it's just cyclic and killing people to glorify deities will be out of fashion again soon. I certainly hope so.

This reminds me of that aussie guy that Marcus used to torment who said he believed in god bc of pascal's wager, i.e. that he would choose to believe in a god for the express purpose of potentially getting benefits, as the god would then be forced to give him eternal life, etc. just bc he believed in said god.

In spite of the many crazy posts here (people injecting themselves but not understanding how to measure on a syringe come to mind), I think worshipping a god that is so dumb that even a dimwit could outsmart it in such a way as pascal and this guy thought had to be my all-time favourite stupid thing I read on the forum.

What ever happened to that guy? Is he still off farming strawberries or whatever?

Very true and totally agree

[thisAngelBites]

Marcus, I saw his name in another thread: euroholic. I just couldn't remember no matter how much I tried to think, but I think I was just repressing it.