British Islamic Terrorist Had Planned Mumbai-style Attack On Britain

This is an interesting story I really hadn't heard before and now, after the Mumbai attacks, it is coming out again as the similarities of preparation are a bit eerie. Here's some of the details here at The Telegraph:

Kazi Nurur Rahman, from east London, was associated with the same terrorist group that is accused of the attack in India which killed almost 200 people.
He was arrested in a sting operation as he tried to buy three Uzi submachine guns and 3,000 rounds of ammunition.
He had talked of buying up to five weapons, hand grenades and as many bullets as possible along with Russian-made rocket-propelled grenades and SAM-7 surface-to-air missiles.
When police raided Rahman's home they found a scanner which enabled him to listen in to police radios along with information on guerrilla warfare.

Counter-terrorism police believe Rahman was planning to arm a gang of associates.
One senior officer told the Daily Telegraph: "This was definitely part of a larger order and the fact that he tried to buy three submachine guns means you only have to do the maths to know he was not the only one involved."

What you will see with Britain nowadays is the huge problem of British islamists living there who have, over the years, spent time in training with the terror groups in Pakistan - be it al Qaeda or others. The festering problem is that these guys trained years ago before all of the British "radar" went up and they have been back in Britain doing all of this planning.

The days are long over for some sort of central planning by al Qaeda leadership - chumps like this Rahman went through his training and drank the koolaid and then, they wait....they wait until THEY think it is time to act. Britain got lucky in nabbing Rahman as you can see, it could have been a horrific attack if it had happened.

Islamic terrorist 'planned Mumbai-style massacre in Britain'

One senior officer told the Daily Telegraph: "This was definitely part of a larger order and the fact that he tried to buy three submachine guns means you only have to do the maths to know he was not the only one involved."
Police also accept that, had he succeeded in buying the weapons, it would have been difficult to stop a massacre on a similar scale to India.
Rahman, 31, was an associate of Omar Khyam, the leader of a gang plotting to blow up Bluewater shopping centre or the Ministry of Sound nightclub with a fertiliser bomb.
Khyam trained with Lashkar-e-Taiba (Let) the Kashmiri separatist group accused of the Mumbai (formerly Bombay) massacre, before he turned to al-Qaeda.
Police were first told about Rahman by an American informant who spoke of a man he knew as Abdul Haleem who ran a terrorist gang in east London and travelled to Pakistan in the aftermath of September 11.
MI5 eventually identified the man as Rahman, 31, a plumber from east London with a history of violence.
At South Mimms Service Station on the M25, Rahman met an MI5 agent who called himself "Salim" and an undercover police officer named "Mohammed" who he believed was an international arms dealer.
The men drove to Welham Green, Hertfordshire, where Rahman was shown wrapped up Uzi machine guns in the back of a Luton van.
He pleaded guilty to offences under the Terrorism Act 2000 and was sentenced to nine years in prison in May 2006.
The judge, Mr Justice Calvert-Smith, told him: "The equipment which you were hoping to buy on the day of your arrest is dreadful and dangerous, capable of killing or wounding a very large number of people in a small space of time and your intention was that it should be used for terrorist purposes in this country."