LONDON - A man admitted in a London court on Thursday that he had taken part in a plot to murder people in terrorist attacks in Britain and the United States. Dhiren Barot pleaded guilty at Woolwich Crown Court in southeast London to one count of conspiring with other people between January 1, 2000 and August 4, 2004 to commit murder.| Now let's see if the Brits will put him away forever. |
Prosecutor Edmund Lawson said “Mr Barot has indicated that he pleads guilty on the basis that count one concerns both the US and the UK.” Lawson said Barot planned to blow up buildings in major US cities, which were “designed to kill as many innocent people as possible”, as well as carry out a series of synchronized attacks in Britain.
He said the cornerstone of the plot in Britain involved blowing up three limousines packed with gas cylinders and explosives in underground car parks, but also detonating a radioactive “dirty bomb” intended to cause “injury, fear, terror and chaos”.
Lawson asked the judge to recall “that there were plans or proposals that were found by the police on the computer after the arrests of August 2004. “Being plans for attacks on the International Monetary Fund and World Bank buildings in Washington, the New York Stock Exchange and Citigroup buildings in New York and the Prudential buildings in Newark.
“These being plans ... to carry out explosions at those premises with no warning, they were basically designed to kill as many innocent people as possible,” he said.