Six British jihadists plotted to blow up an English Defence League rally to spark a ‘tit-for-tat spiral of violence and terror’, a court heard yesterday.
The extremists wanted to ‘execute a terrible vengeance’ on the far-Right group for its ‘blasphemous words and actions’ against Islam.
The six planned to attack the EDL with a nail bomb, shotguns, samurai swords and knives

They drove from their homes in Birmingham on June 30 last year to set off the bomb at a rally in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.
However, the meeting finished early and by the time the six arrived the 750 EDL members had left.

Anti-terrorist officers were unaware of the plot and the six were only caught by chance because their car was uninsured.

Security was heightened as the six appeared at the Old Bailey yesterday, after an Islamic centre in Muswell Hill, north London, was burnt to the ground in a suspected racist attack on Wednesday.
Prosecutor Bobbie Cheema QC said the jihadists ‘intended to cause serious injury and anticipated that some may have died’.



‘It takes but a little contemplation to realise that had the retaliatory attack gone ahead as planned it would have had a powerful impact on relations between different groups... and that impact would probably still be reverberating today,’ she said.
‘There can be little doubt that a violent attack of the kind intended to be carried out would have been bound to draw a response in revenge from its target and those who sympathise with the EDL and would most likely have led to a tit-for-tat spiral of violence and terror.’
Mrs Cheema said the group set out their intentions in a ‘chilling’ document called Operation in Defence of the Prophet Muhammad.

It called the Queen a ‘female devil’ and accused her of ‘fooling a nation of blind sheep to your self-proclaimed royalty and majesty’ by holding the Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Addressing the EDL, it said: ‘We love death more than you love life. You are a people who are worse than animals. The penalty for blasphemy of Allah and his Messenger Muhammad is death.’

On the gang’s trip back from Dewsbury, one of their cars was randomly stopped by a traffic officer on the M1. He impounded the car after discovering it was uninsured.
The car was taken to a pound near Sheffield where it sat for two days until a worker found the weapons and the jihadist notes.
After the six were arrested, police found they had downloaded thousands of files from the internet containing videos of Al Qaeda training camps, bomb-making instructions and one showing a man putting on a suicide vest.
Jewel Uddin, 27, Omar Khan, 31, Mohammed Hasseen, 24, Anzal Hussain, 25, Mohammed Saud, 23, and Zohaib Ahmed, 22, admitted planning the attack at a previous hearing.

The men, who regularly met at the Darul Ihsaan Islamic and Fitness Centre in Birmingham, will be sentenced today.