Brits foil husband-wife terror team

Independent:
A potential suicide bomber and his wife have been found guilty of planning a massive terror attack in London designed to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the 7/7 bombings in the capital.

Mohammed Rehman, 25, and his wife, Sana Ahmed Khan, 24, were discovered to have been days away from committing an act of terrorism in the capital before they were arrested by anti-terrorism police.

Rehman, who had been going by the name of "Silent Bomber," used money from his wife to buy chemicals needed to make a huge bomb from eBay and stockpiling them at his family home in Reading.

He had taken to Twitter in May to ask people for suggestions as to which target he should choose for the attack - Westfield shopping centre or the Tube - and had been found to have filmed himself setting off a small explosion in his back garden.

The prosecution said Rehman had been just days away from completing the bomb that would have caused multiple casualties in the capital before he was stopped by police.
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The couple had shared a "common interest" in violent and extreme Islamic ideology and a keen interest in Isis, prosecutor Tony Badenoch QC told the jury. He said the pair had repeatedly researched the 7/7 bombings and that Rehman's online research had showed he approved and "wished to play his own part".
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They seem similar to the Muslim mass murderers in California in their ideology.   It shows how closely the spouses are tied to the terror network.  It is another example of how Islamic religious bigotry motivates the terrorists.

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