Six admit planning to bomb English Defence League rally

[muriel_volestrangler]

Omar Mohammed Khan, Mohammed Hasseen, Anzal Hussain, Mohammed Saud, Zohaib Ahmed and Jewel Uddin all admitted preparing an act of terrorism between 1 May and 4 July 2012.

The group took a homemade bomb to an EDL rally in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, but arrived after the event had ended.

They were caught after their car was stopped for having no insurance.
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Police and security services had no intelligence about the planned attack on 30 June, although one of the would-be killers was under surveillance in relation to another terrorist plan.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22344054

Thank goodness for incompetent terrorists, because the surveillance wasn't exactly effective, was it?

[dipsydoodle]

1. Don't suppose you know

if the BBC changed its headline ? I noticed that earlier - I'd swear there was no mention of a bomb and thought the intent was simply to disturb / attack the rally.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. No, this was the first version of it I'd seen

I'd guess things like this are under reporting restrictions until a guilty plea, or evidence is given in court. Maybe they started off with a basic "attack the rally" story before they'd worked out exactly what they could and couldn't report?

On edit: there's a site called 'web sniffer' that monitors changes to BBC news stories, which says this was the original version: http://www.newssniffer.co.uk/articles/636315/diff/0/1 (9:40 UTC, ie 10:40 BST)

[dipsydoodle]

3. Thanks

I might have spotted elsewhere when it initially said something like "attack the rally" which I took to mean give the EDL a dose of their own medicine.