Haroon Syed, 19, tried to obtain suicide vest or machine gun and identified concert on September 11 anniversary as targetA teenager who plotted to bomb an Elton John concert on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks has been jailed for life. Haroon Syed, 19, tried to obtain a suicide vest or machine gun and identified the event in Hyde Park, central London, last year as a possible target. Man plotted attacks on Buckingham Palace and Elton John concert Read moreHe was snared online by officers from the British security service posing as a fellow extremist called Abu Yusuf. An officer pretending to be Abu Yusuf met Syed at a branch of Costa Coffee in Slough, Berkshire, and their discussion was secretly recorded. He asked Abu Yusuf to make sure there were lots of nails in it and added: “I was thinking of Oxford Street … If I go to prison, I go to prison.

Source: The Guardian July 03, 2017 16:35 UTC