Dumb Muslim Terrorist Said Non-Muslims are Dumb, Asked Twitter What to Bomb
Some terrorists are criminal masterminds. Others fly under the radar. And still others are a few Imams short of a Fatwa. Take Mohammed Rehman, a genius who thought all non-Muslims were stupid.
A husband and wife have been convicted of planning a large-scale bombing of civilian targets in London to mark the 10th anniversary of the July 7, 2005, attacks on the city’s underground train system.
Mohammed Rehman, 25, and his wife Sana Ahmed Khan, 24, were found guilty on Tuesday at the Old Bailey court.
Prosecutors said Rehman was only a few days away from finishing work on a bomb capable of causing mass casualties when police moved in on May 28. They say he had been stockpiling a substantial amount of chemicals and had detonated a small practice device in his backyard.
His plan fell apart though because he couldn't stop tweeting about it.
The couple's plot - planned to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the 7/7 attacks on the London underground network which killed 52 people - was foiled when Rehman tweeted asking for advice on possible targets using the alias "Silent Bomber".
An undercover investigator found the tweet which said "Westfield shopping centre or London underground? Any advice would be appreciated greatly" and struck up a conversation with Rehman who told him he was preparing for martyrdom.
Jurors were told his intentions could not have been clearer when he tweeted: “Now I just make explosives in preparation for kuffar lol and when I’ve made the required amount I’ll be wearing them on my chest.”
Rehman - using explosives paid for by his then wife using payday loans and her wages - even detonated a bomb in his back garden in preparation.
So he was the perfect Islamist, living off his wife and boasting on Twitter about how he was going to kill all the infidels.
The undercover investigator engaged Rehman in a private conversation in which the defendant subsequently asked him “how dumb these Kuffar [non-Muslims] are lol”.
Yes, it's the non-Muslims who are stupid.