[PJ] British counterterrorism police said today that a terror plot to assassinate Prime Minister Theresa May was tripped up after the would-be jihadist inadvertently contacted an "online role player working with the FBI" last September.The FBI "in-turn introduced him to online role-players from MI5 and Counter Terrorism Policing," said British officials.
Naa’imur Zakariyah Rahman, 20, of London was found guilty Wednesday of plotting to set a bomb off at 10 Downing Street and then try to behead May in the ensuing confusion.
Rahman, a Briton of Bangladeshi origin with family in London and Birmingham, was unemployed and living at home with his mom. He reportedly told an intelligence officer posing as an ISIS leader that he was sometimes having trouble sneaking out of the house without arousing his mom's suspicion.
Dean Haydon, the UK's senior national coordinator for counterterrorism, in a statement today called Rahman "an extremely dangerous and determined individual."