Right Wing Terrorism Watch - White supremacist in UK found to be planning a terrorism campaign

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Neil Lewington, 43, idolised David Copeland, the London nail bomber and Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma bomber, and aimed to target "those he considered non-British", jurors at the Old Bailey were told.

He spoke of converting tennis balls into shrapnel bombs and police found two handwritten notes inside his wallet, headed "date, place, target", jurors heard. He allegedly told police officers that detained him that "I'm Bin Laden".

Detectives found he had turned the bedroom of the house that he lived in with his parents in Reading, Berks, into a bomb factory containing canisters of weedkiller, timers and other components.

Searches also revealed a notebook entitled "Waffen SS UK members' handbook" with drawings of electronics and chemical mixtures.

Brian Altman, QC, prosecuting, said: "The effect of these findings is to prove that this man who had strong if not fanatical Right-wing leanings and opinions was on the cusp of embarking on a campaign of terror against those he regarded as being not British."

Police uncovered the alleged threat that Mr Lewington posed by chance last October as he travelled to Lowestoft, Suffolk, for a date with a woman he had met on the internet. He was smoking and being abusive on a train and was arrested at Lowestoft for the public order offences, including urinating at the station.

At the police station, inside a blue holdall, officers found the components to two "viable improvised incendiary devices" and handwritten notebooks detailing electronics and chemical mixtures to make bombs, it is alleged.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5687144/White-supremacist-planned-a-race-hate-terrorism-campaign-court-hears.html

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1. May I suggest you add '(UK)' to your thread title