London attack mirrors plot to behead Muslim soldier/ makayla sifuentes 8th period

The attack on a soldier hacked to death on a London street has echoes of other plots on British soil in recent years. The victim of Wednesday's attack in Woolwich was a serving soldier based at a nearby barracks, London police say, and the UK government is treating it as a suspected terrorist attack. In 2007 four men were imprisoned over a plot to kidnap and kill a British Muslim soldier on leave and behead him in a Birmingham garage. The group's ringleader Parviz Khan intended to behead the soldier "like a pig" and release footage of the killing on the internet. Khan was later imprisoned for life and must serve a minimum of 14 years before he will be considered for release. Three other men, Basiru Gassama, Mohammed Irfan, and Hamid Elasmar, were handed down sentences of between two and seven years for their roles in the plot. this story allows people to realize that people are willing to kill to find what they are looking for. To not always trust people, but to figure them out before associating yourself with them. Source; http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/22/world/europe/uk-attack-2007-plot/index.html?hpt=ju_c2 Author; Peter Wilkinson