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03-03-2018 08:59 AM |
Wake up America, it's happening here too...
A British supporter of Islamic State was found guilty on Friday of trying to recruit children he was teaching into an "army" of jihadists to help carry out a wave of attacks across London.
Umar Haque, 25, showed the children beheading videos and other violent militant propaganda, forced them to re-enact deadly attacks on the British capital and made them role-play attacking police officers.
"His plan was to create an army of children to assist with multiple terrorist attacks throughout London, he tried and he did, radicalize vulnerable children from the ages of 11 to 14."
Despite having no qualifications and being employed as an administrator, police say Haque used the guise of teaching Islamic studies to groom 110 children into becoming militants at a small private Islamic school.
His intention was to use them to attack London targets such as the Big Ben tower, soldiers from the Queen's Guards, a large shopping center, banks, and media stations, prosecutors said.
Believed to have been self-radicalized online, Haque was inspired by an attack in March last year when Khalid Masood plowed a rented car into pedestrians on London's Westminster Bridge, killing four, before stabbing to death a police officer in the grounds of parliament.
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