Briton admits plot to behead Muslim soldier Quote:
LEICESTER (Reuters) - A man has pleaded guilty to a plot to kidnap and kill a Muslim soldier in the British army by cutting off his head "like a pig", a court was told on Tuesday.
Parviz Khan, 37, pleaded guilty this month to a series of charges including the beheading plot, which was foiled by police and the MI5 security service a year ago.
Media had been barred from reporting Khan's plea until Tuesday when a trial of two other men opened in the central English city of Leicester.
A British and Pakistani passport holder, Khan was "a man who has the most violent and extreme Islamist views" and who wanted to get physically involved in acts of terrorism, prosecutor Nigel Rumfitt said.
He said Khan was "enraged" by the fact there were Muslims in the British army, which Islamist militants portray as fighting Islam in Afghanistan and Iraq, and formed a plan to kidnap a Muslim soldier in the central city of Birmingham.
With the help of drug dealers, the victim was to be seized while enjoying a night out and bundled into a car, Rumfitt said.
"He would be taken to a lockup garage and there he would be murdered by having his head cut off like a pig," he said.
He planned to tie up the victim, film his murder and release the video to Arab television station Al Jazeera, the jury was told, with the aim of sowing panic and fear in the British army and public.
"Young Blair is going to go crazy," Khan was heard to say in a conversation bugged by British security services, referring to then prime minister Tony Blair.
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This is part of the problem that a lot of people can't see (or refuse to)...
Before technology and swift global travel, the world looked at the Middle East as archaic and stagnant, but really didn't care because everything was being done on their own turf...It was THEIR problem and as long as it didn't effect the West, it wasn't a worry...
But that same archaic society is being EXPORTED to Western turf...That changes everything...
If two guys are fighting down the block, you're not involved, so what do you care?...
But if those guys fight up the block, onto your lawn, through your front door, and into your living room, it now becomes your problem...
And this is just the latest example of that...The world has become too small to let others crash into a different location and bring their disgusting customs, culture, and thought process into modern society...
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