DAILY MAIL: An Islamist fanatic plotted to snatch a British Muslim soldier from the streets and film him being beheaded "like a pig" in a lock-up garage, a court heard.
Parviz Khan, 37, built up a terrorist cell in Birmingham and planned to kidnap the soldier before filming his "ghastly" death for release to the media.
The attack was designed to cause "panic and fear" amongst the Army and the wider British public.
Leicester Crown Court was told that the terror cell had sent money and equipment to Pakistan for the use of terrorists trying to kill British soldiers on the Afghan border.
Prosecutor Nigel Rumfitt QC said Khan wanted to get "physically involved" in the bloodshed but was prevented by "his bosses overseas" because his supply operation was so valued.
Instead, the court heard, he hatched the plot to kill a soldier in the UK.
He decided to target a Muslim fighting in the British Army and asked another member of the cell to identify a potential victim.
Mr Rumfitt said: "The prosecution say that Parviz Khan is a fanatic.
"He is a man who has the most violent and extreme views. Khan was enraged by the idea that there were Muslim soldiers in the British Army, some of them from the Gambia in West Africa.
"He decided to kidnap such a soldier with the help of drug dealers in Birmingham.
"The soldier would be approached in the Broad Street nightlife area, lured into a car and taken to a lock-up garage and murdered with his head cut off - "like a pig". Islamic extremist gang 'plotted to kidnap British Muslim soldier and behead him like a pig' >>> By Andy Dolan
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