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World Briefing | Europe: Britain: Guilty Plea in Plot to Behead Soldier

[NYT - Europe]

A 37-year-old man from Birmingham, in the English midlands, has pleaded guilty to plotting to behead a British soldier. Parviz Khan, who described himself to investigators as a Muslim charity worker, was heard in covert recordings made by Britain’s security services outlining a plan to kidnap a soldier from Birmingham’s nightclub district and have him beheaded, the court in Leicester was told. Nigel Rumfitt, the prosecutor, said Mr. Khan’s plan was to videotape the killing and release the tape “to cause panic and fear within the British armed forces and wider public.” Three other men, all Muslims, have admitted offenses in the case, one of them a Gambian citizen tasked by Mr. Khan to identify a Muslim West African soldier serving in the British Army as the victim for the beheading plot, according to the prosecution. Mr. Khan was said to have shown the other men videos of terrorist beheadings in Iraq and Afghanistan.