Matthew 24:10,11 Then he said to them: “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven.
Four men who plotted to blow up a British Army base by placing a bomb inside a toy car have been jailed after pleading guilty to the plot.
Zahid Iqbal, Mohammed Sharfaraz Ahmed, Umar Arshad and Syed Farhan Hussain all will be spending at least five years behind bars for their roles in the conspiracy. Iqbal and Ahmed were sentenced to 16 years, 11 in jail, after the judge called them a “continuing risk” to the public.
In each of their cases, their persistent commitment to terrorist activity, in a number of different ways, over a significant period of time and, in each case, their willingness to take practical steps to obtain terrorist training abroad, marks them out as particularly dangerous,” the judge said.
The men discussed how to make a homemade bomb after reading instructions on a jihadist website.
The men smiled and laughed as tape recordings of their plotting their jihadist attack were played in court.
