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A BRITISH COURT today convicted a husband and wife of planning a terror attack on the tenth anniversary of the London suicide bombings earlier this year.
Mohammed Rehman, 25, used the Twitter name “Silent Bomber” and asked users whether he should bomb a shopping centre or the London Underground train network.
Rehman used as his profile picture an image of the Islamic State group militant known as “Jihadi John”, believed killed earlier this year, and was said by prosecutors to have had a “keen interest” in IS.
He was arrested in May after posting a tweet saying:
Westfield shopping centre or London underground? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
That was accompanied by a link to an Al-Qaeda press release about the July 2005 bombings in which four suicide bombers targeted London’s transport system. Fifty-two people were killed.
The couple were accused of planning their attack around May 28.
Rehman was convicted alongside his wife Sana Ahmed Khan at London’s Old Bailey criminal court.
Police also seized more than 10 kilogrammes of urea nitrate, which can be used to manufacture a large bomb, from their house and he filmed himself testing explosives in their back garden.
“Given his prior knowledge, experience and the ready availability of the chemicals, the manufacture of a detonator would have taken no more than a couple of days and could have been done by him much quicker if he chose to,” prosecutor Tony Badenoch told the court.
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Should be able to click in tá and nil to see easier who has voted in favour/against what and who didnt vote at all
There’s an excel sheet online somewhere that tells you where everyone sits so you can work it out. I’m not on the computer at the moment, so I can’t give you the link, but I think it’s on the Dail website. Your way would be a million times handier though.
Exactly Sam, we are paying for this afterall. It should be accessible as standard.
Mrs that my point though. Why should we need to get an excel sheet out to navigate through democracy? In this day and age we have the technology to make this much more user friendly. Point and click a seat see bio, voting record, attendance, salary, expenses, committee membership, contact details and SIPO returns etc.
I completely agree, the amount of time I waste going through that sheet finding out who voted for what, and after all that, it’s a bit out of date too. I would love to see a page that has all that information in just one click, and to be honest, I reckon I could even make it myself if I had a bit of time, because it’s not even that complicated in terms of technology. But you’re suggesting the Dáil does something that makes complete sense and would make things easier and clearer for voters and people interested in Irish politics. It’s not going to happen. =P
High Treason from Fg and Labour actively blocking any possibility of a deal on bankster debts
What the hell? Fg and labour taking steps against the madness of bailing out bankster debts and undermining any chance of ireland getting a deal. Traitors the lot of them. Afraid greece succeeds where ireland failed in case it makes fg and labour look bad. Party politics over the interest of irish people!
Because they care more about keeping in with their mates in Brussels than they do about their own people or the Greeks.
Turn coats
What have the Greeks ever done for us Luke?
Georgios Samaras and Ouzo
What have the Greeks ever done for us? Gave us the notion of democracy, also a large part of what we call civilisation. among other things.
Speaking statistically, couldn’t 51% of the country inflict tyranny democratically on the other 49% of the country. With not everyone registered to vote, and with people who are registered and don’t vote, couldn’t a much smaller number like 30% of the people inflict tyranny democratically on the other 70%.
Half of Georgia Salpa?
They really don’t care!!
They do care Trevor…..about that cushy Brussels number their all foaming at the mouth for.
Because our ‘democracy’ is a thin veneer and the Oireachtais largely serves the interests of big capital and not the vast majority of Irish citizens.
Corruption
Corruption and TREASON
Sure why would you be inviting people into the town who might blurt what actually happened?
Because we are sado-masochists.
We enjoy the pain…At least the government has told us we do. In which case,we are also gimp slaves too!!
Wake the gimp Mark
Thhe gang of 4 tell the cabinet what to do, the cabinet tells the whips and they tell the TDs which way to vote. Its called democracy Irish style
Bang on… the ‘Economic Management Council’ fascism FG styleeee.
4 guys, whipping everybody else in line.
Why did the Dáil vote against a European debt conference?
I’m going with ‘Stockholm Syndrome’.
You only had to listen to that eejit Noonan with his ‘we’re alright, we’re not dependent on feta cheese exports’ comment to see that there is no solidarity with anybody that threatens a good pension. If the shoe was on the other foot and some Greek minister dismissivly suggested that ‘the paddys could go back to bartering with potatoes’ we’d have completely lost our collective s***
They like dishing out austerity and being the poster boy of austerity especially since they are immune from austerity.
Sure why would they vote for a debt conference . They wouldnt want to help the country . They get what they want big wages and pensions paid by the taxpayers no matter what.
Greece must be on a tracker
Did you enjoy your holidays? One of the perks at FG? Back in overdrive now though I see.
well look what the cat dragged out of the FG sewers
What is our national debt? €214bn quotes in the article or €154bn quoted in yesterday’s article.
Why did the Dáil vote against a European debt conference?
Because they are spineless fools that would rather bend over for the elite bankers and their political masters in Europe, than do something that might actually benefit the peoples of this country and Europe.
We are not supporting this hypocrisy,you said it yourself it was their banks and govt who were at fault,why should the average greek person suffer.This new greek govt are supporting their people and are looking for a debt write down because the debt is totally unsustainable.If they kept on going the way they were there would have been violent rebellion.
Because they are the same ones who flushed our sovereignty down the pan???
As in Ireland the media and academia in Greece did not expose the fraudsters in government and banks who were safely ensconced in positions of power for years and who eventually bankrupted the country.
Now they want the citizens of other EU countries to pay.
No way Jose
The Greeks are making hypocritical demands on other countries in the euro zone, some of which are poorer than Greece, to pay for the recklessness and irresponsibility of their own governments and banks over decades.
We should not support this hypocrisy.
They were in massive debt but the IMF made it worse for them due to the euro, they had to borrow money to look after the euros wellbeing and that added to their mess.
Interesting note . The gap in vote was 30 seats. At least 17 opposition seats were marked white for abstentions or no vote. Stop pairing arrangements!
well done to the government yet again
Explain to me why we have Peter Sutherland advising the Irish Government when he was the very person whispering in the Irish governments ear during this last minute crisis bailout…. He is Chairman of Goldman Sachs those invested interests are still vested interests…They have taken no hit and suffered no backlash.. The banking inquiry serves NO purpose unless we are changing the system… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11Z_WcRJzcA
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