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A Muslim convert has pleaded guilty to plotting to kill around 100 people outside a Disney store on London's Oxford Street.

Lewis Ludlow, 26, swore allegiance to Islamic State as he prepared to drive a van through London's shopping area or near Madame Tussauds.

Using a false name, between 15 March and 19 April he bought a mobile phone and wrote down his plans to carry out an attack - the plans were later found torn in pieces in a bin.

He picked out Oxford Street as an "ideal target" and wrote: "It is expected nearly 100 could be killed in the attack."

Ludlow, of Rochester, in Kent, planned an attack after being stopped by police at Heathrow airport in February as he tried to board a flight to the Philippines.

He was due to go on trial in the autumn on two charges of preparing acts of terrorism and one of terror funding but at a hearing before Judge Nicholas Hilliard QC at the Old Bailey on Friday, he pleaded guilty to plotting an attack in the UK and funding IS abroad.

Ludlow is alleged to have set up a Facebook account called Antique Collections as a front to send money to Asia to fund terrorism.

Mark Heywood QC, prosecuting, said it was not be in the public interest to pursue a trial on a charge of attempting to join IS in the Philippines which Ludlow denied and that charge will lie on the court file.

The prosecution summary said Ludlow first came to the attention of police in 2010 when he attended a demonstration led by radical preach Anjem Choudary and his banned Al-Muhajiroun (ALM) group.

He was arrested in 2015 and IS material was recovered from his electronic devices but police took no further action.

In January he bought a ticket to fly to the Philippines on February 3 this year and was stopped at the airport and his passport was seized.

He told police he was going to the country as a sex tourist.

But officers searching his home found he was in communication with a man named Abu Yaqeen in an area with major IS presence.

Ludlow sent him money in March through PayPal and created the Facebook account Antique Collections.
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This is just part and parcel of taking your child out toy shopping.
 
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How do they translate Disney songs into kebab?

Be our Convert? Let it Blow? Kiss the Goat?
 
Any terrorist attack is bad, but deliberately targeting a place where he knows kids would be with their parents? That's another level of fucked up.
 
Anyone who seriously plots a crime such as this should get life imprisonment. It's a disgrace that the police didn't take action sooner, but we should all be grateful for the undercover work that they do in helping to trick these people out of the woodwork.
 
Flying_with_the_Penguins said:
Obviously these poor individuals were feeling discriminated due to Disneys lack of muslim representation in their products.
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Other way around, what pisses them off the most is when we "culturally appropriate" their religion and make a bastardized liberal purse puppy rendition of it. What we do to their religion, in their eyes, is no different from what Westboro does with Christianity. Just as Westboro infuriates the majority of Christians, the liberal rendition of the moose lamb religion infuriates actual/real Muslims... often to the point of violence.
 
Woooah, careful there buckaronis. You're gonna offend the tumblrites, because apparently calling out terrorists is fucking "Islamaphobia."

Okay, but seriously, that's absolutely fucked up. A fucking Disney store of all places. A Disney store. A store where many families with children go.
 
I'm glad this was thwarted. I have a lot of issues with British police and all, but kudos to them on this case.
 
We already know he's an idiot, he converted to Islam after all, but why would you write down your plans? Especially when it just boils down to 'Rent van, drive van, splatter innocents because I'm a retard'?

I don't think he needed to go to The Philippines anyway, he wouldn't need official IS blessing, they'd claim he was working with them anyway.

But I will praise the Police for doing something right for once. It's not often...
 
Why would you tell authorities you're going to the Philippines as a sex tourist
 
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