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Walid Saadaoui and Amar Hussein had big plans — so big that children in the United Kingdom would have read about them in their history books and memorized their names, whether they would have been lionized as heroes or excoriated as villains. To their everlasting disappointment, however, their rendezvous with destiny never happened. Their big plans ended up being disrupted before they had a chance to carry out what has been called “the deadliest terrorist attack in UK history.”
Sky News reported Tuesday that Saadaoui, 38, and Hussein, 52, have just been found guilty of plotting a jihad massacre with the Jews of Manchester, England as its target. The plot had gone well beyond the talking stage: “They had bought assault rifles, handguns and ammunition for the suicide attack they planned on Jewish targets. They saw any Christian victims ‘as a bonus.’” The pair was hoping that victim count would be high: Greater Manchester Police Assistant Chief Constable Rob Potts said that if Saadaoui and Hussein had succeeded in carrying out their jihad massacre plans unhindered, they would have pulled off “the deadliest terrorist attack in UK history,” with “catastrophic” consequences.
Remember, Islamic jihadis murdered 52 people and injured another 770 in the notorious Islamic jihad attack of July 7, 2005, so clearly the pair had very big plans. Their hero was a man who had killed well over twice that number: Saadaoui, “the former owner of an Italian restaurant in a Norfolk seaside town, ‘hero-worshipped’ Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the mastermind of the Paris attacks of 2015, and wanted to replicate the attacks in which 130 people were killed.”
A man such as Abdelhamid Abaaoud could only be a hero in the context of the Qur’an’s promise of a place in paradise to those who “kill and are killed” for Allah (9:111). As Saadaoui and Hussein were planning a suicide attack, they clearly hoped to claim this promise for themselves as well, so as to enjoy for all eternity the favors of the “large-breasted women of equal age” the Qur’an (78:32-3) promises to the blessed. These are the famous virgins of paradise: “Indeed, we have created them a special creation and made them virgins, lovers, friends” (Qur’an 56:35-7).
In pursuit of this lofty goal, Saadaoui sold his house and used part of the money he received for it “as an initial payment for four AK-47 assault rifles, two handguns and 1,200 rounds of ammunition as he planned a marauding gun attack in revenge for Israeli attacks on Gaza.” He planned to strike in “the same area of Manchester where terrorist Jihad al Shamie later stabbed a worshipper to death outside a synagogue on 2 October.”
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