Man Guilty Of Terror Plot On US Troops In UK

A delivery driver has been found guilty of preparing to carry out a terror attack on an RAF base where US troops are stationed.

Police believe 25-year-old Junead Khan planned to stage a car crash, attack US military personnel with a knife and then blow himself up.

He allegedly came up with the scheme after driving past RAF Mildenhall and RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk.

His trial heard he used his job with a pharmaceutical firm as cover to scout United States Air Force (Usaf) bases in East Anglia.

Pictures on his phone of him in his bedroom with an Islamic State-style black flag were discovered by police after they arrested him last July.

Officers later found the flag in the attic, while on his computer was an al Qaiea bomb manual and Amazon searches for a large combat knife.

Commander Dean Haydon, the head of the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command, said he "posed a real risk to public safety".

"He'd undertaken research and planning to make a pressure cooker bomb.

"And, what we think is, either before or during the attack, if he'd been compromised in any way he was going to detonate that device and commit suicide."

Khan was found guilty of preparing for an act of terrorism in the UK between May and July 2015 after a trial at Kingston Crown Court in London.

And he was convicted, alongside his 23-year-old uncle Shazib Khan, of preparing to go to Syria to join Islamic State.

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