MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

By Nick McCarthy, Birmingham Mail – “Three Birmingham men masterminded a suicide bombing campaign involving eight simultaneous explosions in crowded places, a court has heard.

No target was set for the would-be rucksack bombers but they were allegedly recorded bragging about planning ‘another 9/11’.

Woolwich Crown Court heard that the ‘Jihadists’ had plotted to cause ‘as much carnage as they could in the name of Allah’.

The prosecution opened the case yesterday against Irfan Naseer, 31, Irfan Khalid and Ashik Ali, both 27, who deny all the terrorism charges.

The jury was told the unemployed men were secretly recorded by anti-terror cops saying the attack would be bigger than 7/7, which killed 52 people.

The three are charged with engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorist acts between Christmas Day 2010 and September 19 2011.

Pharmaceutical graduate Naseer, from Doris Road, Sparkbrook, is charged with five different offences. He was awarded a degree from Aston University in 2003 and was known as ‘Big Irfan or Chubbs’.

Unemployed security guard Khalid, of Timbers Way, Sparkbrook, faces four counts under section five of the Terrorism Act.

Former charity worker Ashik Ali, aged 27, from White Street, Sparkbrook, faces three different offences.

Irfan Naseer and Irfan Khalid, are also alleged to have received terror training in tribal areas of Pakistan in 2009 and again in 2011, where they were said to have been schooled in the use of IEDs, firearms and poisons.

The two men are also accused of recruiting others for terrorism.

The three men are also all accused of trying to coordinate eight suicide bomb explosions in the UK and fundraising for terrorism.

In one secret recording where the men discussed the 7/7 attacks on London, Naseer allegedly said the bombers did not ’cause enough damage’ and should have used nails as shrapnel to kill more people.” Read more.