British police dismantled a conspiracy to bomb the London underground or a busy commercial center of the capital before the tenth anniversary of the attacks of July 7, 2005, judicial sources revealed.
Agents anti-terrorist police were alerted to a plot devised by Mohammed Rehman, a man of 25 who hid his identity under the name of "Silent Bomber", and used the social network Twitter for advice on what target to choose the When planning an attack.
This individual, which appeared today at a hearing in the Old Bailey criminal court in London, where it is processed after his arrest last May- is accused of "planning terrorist activities on (or before) May 28 this year ".
The man, who appeared today with his wife, Sana Ahmed Khan, 24, is also charged with "possession of an article for terrorist purposes".
At the hearing, the prosecutor Tony Badenoch said that when the couple was arrested last May 28, agents recovered from his home "substantial amounts of chemicals and resources on making a bomb."
According to the prosecutor, the wife of Rehman helped buy these products knowing that they would be used to make explosives.
Apparently, the couple shared a "common interest" extremist Islamist ideology and they had searched the internet repeatedly about the suicide bombers responsible for attacks on London's transport network on 7-J.
The two men are also interested in the Islamic jihadist group State (EI), while in the history of online search Rehman was observed that man approved of the atrocities committed by the terrorists of EI and "wanted to play their own role."
The alleged conspiracy to bomb was dismantled when last May 12 issued a tweet Rehman, accompanied by the image of the "Jihadi John", a British bomber EI allegedly died last week in a US attack on the Syrian city Al Raqa.
In this tweet, Rehman, acting under the name "Silent Bomber", launched the following question: "Does the Westfield shopping center or the London Underground? Any advice will be greatly appreciated. "
The counterterrorism agents arrested the couple 16 days after the publication of this tweet.
"The evidence suggests it may have had in mind the London Underground as a potential target because he was particularly obsessed with the events of July 7, and made references to Shehzad Tanweer, one of the suicide bombers of 7 July, as his" beloved predecessor, "the prosecutor said today. EFE