London Central Criminal Court Photo: Luca Nebuloni Flickr Wikimedia CC BY 2.0The members of a terrorist cell calling itself “The Three Musketeers”, who planned to commit a murder in London similar to the one perpetrated in 2013 against soldier Lee Rigby, were sentenced to life imprisonment.Naweed Ali, 29, Khobabi Hussain, 25, and Mohibur Rahman, 33, from the West Midlands (central England) were found guilty of conspiring with the intention of attacking police and military targets on British soil.According to a judge at a hearing at the Old Bailey criminal court in the center of the capital, Ali, Rahman and Hussain must serve prison sentences of “at least 20 years” before their cases can be reviewed by their “significant roles” in the proposed attack.Above left a der Naweed Ali, Khobaib Hussain; below, Mohibur Rahman and Tahir Aziz Photo: West Midlands Police via FacebookAs for a fourth man also indicted, Tahir Aziz, 38, who faced a charge of preparing terrorist activities, must serve a minimum of 15.During the judicial process, it was revealed that they were planning to commit attacks in a similar way to how, four years ago, the murder in broad daylight of soldier Rigby was carried out, run over by two men who later tried to behead him in the name of Islam. in a neighborhood of the capital.The defendants were arrested in August of last year after the United Kingdom intelligence services managed to intercept the vehicle of one of them, Naweed Ali, and discovered a homemade explosive and a butcher knife hidden in a sports bag.This process has been plagued by accusations against the police for alleged corruption, with the defendants arguing that these objects were placed inside the car by an undercover agent, known as Vincent.At the hearing, prosecutor Bill Emlyn also indicated that the three men, influenced by the 2016 attacks in Nice (southern France) with a truck, where 84 people died, probably also planned to use their vehicles as weapons. EFEPost navigation
