UK: Muslim plotted jihad massacre using driverless car

Jihad Watch:

The Islamic State issued this call in September 2014:

So O muwahhid, do not let this battle pass you by wherever you may be. You must strike the soldiers, patrons, and troops of the tawaghit. Strike their police, security, and intelligence members, as well as their treacherous agents. Destroy their beds. Embitter their lives for them and busy them with themselves. If you can kill a disbelieving American or European — especially the spiteful and filthy French — or an Australian, or a Canadian, or any other disbeliever from the disbelievers waging war, including the citizens of the countries that entered into a coalition against the Islamic State, then rely upon Allah, and kill him in any manner or way however it may be….If you are not able to find an IED or a bullet, then single out the disbelieving American, Frenchman, or any of their allies. Smash his head with a rock, or slaughter him with a knife, or run him over with your car, or throw him down from a high place, or choke him, or poison him….

“Terrorist plotting ‘driverless car’ attack found guilty,” by Jessica Carpani, Telegraph, July 12, 2019 (thanks to Henry):

Farhad Salah has been found guilty at Sheffield Crown Court of preparing to commit acts of terrorism by plotting an attack using an explosive device in a driverless car.

The jury failed to reach a verdict on his co-defendant, chip-shop owner Andy Star who was charged with the same offence.

Prosecutors told the five-week trial that Salah, 24, and Star, 32, were in the early stages of testing small improvised explosive devices when they were arrested in high-profile raids on their homes in a Sheffield community centre and a Chesterfield fish-and-chip shop in December 2017.