Truemors
Parviz Khan appeared in the Leicester Crown Court, in England because he devised a plot to kidnap and hang a British Muslim soldier.
While Khan had pled guilty to the plot (earlier in the month) it appears that the other two militants with him; Mohammed Irfan (age 31,) and Hamid Elasmar (age 44) have denied any offences linked to the conspiracy.
The court was told that the plot was to "behead him like a pig" in a lock up garage. Parviz Khan had also been involved in sending equipment to militants on the Pakistan / Afghanistan border.
According to the Daily Mail; he had also been sending shipments via a Birmingham shipping company and described them as aid for earthquake victims - medicines, clothes or "personal effects."
Some of these shipments had weighed up to a tonne each.
In fact, the cargoes included a range of equipment ordered by his terrorist contacts in Pakistan, such as electronic equipment, sleeping bags, walkie talkies and waterproof map-holders.
A port official, who should be commended for doing his job so well, found Khan with a notepad in July of 2006, as he was returning to the U.K.
"He was bringing a shopping list from terrorist contacts of materials they wanted sent back in the next delivery," said Rumfitt.
Among items written in the notebook was a laser range-finder.
So in some way, Americans, the English, Australians, we're all the sources of the Taliban's weapons. Something to think about.
The rest of the story is long and convoluted and you can read it here.
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