A mother and her two daughters formed an Islamic State hit squad which plotted terror attacks at iconic sites in central London, a court heard today. Britain’s first all-female terrorist group discussed grenade, knife and car attacks at the British Museum and Palace of Westminster and were spurred on by a prolific recruiter for the terrorist group in Syria, the Old Bailey heard. Safaa Boular met the Isis jihadist Naweed Hussain online when she was 16 and allegedly planned to travel to Syria where they wanted to blow themselves up with suicide belts. When he was killed in Syria on April 4 last year she began to plot a terrorist attack outside the British Museum, the prosecution alleged. That was thwarted when she was charged…

Source: The Times May 10, 2018 16:07 UTC