Chinese resturant plotters no match for the IDF in terrorism

4 men have been charged as a result of the swoop on a Westminster Chinese restaurant on September 1st by the Met’s finest, who have uncovered an immense terrorist plot , so cunningly planned, so well, concealed that it is almost impossible to believe there really is one.

But Plod knows better and has the brigands safely in custody.

Ugandan-born Yassin Mutegombwa, 22 from Upper Norwood, was charged in a Westminter Court, on 3 counts of weapons training “for the purposes connected with the commission or preparation of acts of terrorism’’ near Pondwood Farm on June 18 and near the Matley Wood Caravan and Camping site in Lyndhurst, on England’s south coast, from April 28 to May 1 and June 2 to June 4.

The owner of the leafy, 98-acre complex in the New Forest called Pondwood Farm, Mick Holdaway explained to the New York Times that they offered such inane pursuits as paintball shooting, bungee jumping and fishing.

He further explained that the area had been under surveillance by the police Special Branch since just after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and by the antiterrorism squad since 2004. Which makes you wonder if other such sites have been under surveillance throughout the country since then…. Which would add up to a valuable use of Police time.

“The Special Branch came here just after 9/11,’’ Mr. Holdaway said. “They asked, ‘Do you get brothers (?) over in your paintball area doing training?’ Then two years ago the antiterrorism squad came and said, ‘Is it O.K. that we do surveillance?’ (both working under cover evidently) I said, ‘Yes’ to both, ‘feel free.’ I’m a family man and if anything like that is going on, I want to know about it.’’

The manager of the 14 acre paintball facility is Shahid Chowdhary, a 42-year-old father of eight who leases the site from Mr. Holdaway and who described himself as a staunch Muslim.

“Every person who plays paintball signs a disclaimer, and not only don’t I know Yassin, I have never seen his name,’’ Mr. Chowdhary said in a telephone interview. The disclaimer, he said, includes personal details to identify those who play paintball.

“The only weapons we have are paintball guns,’’ he said.

Mr. Mutegombwa was also charged with attending a site near Matley Wood Caravan and Camping for weapons training. A bewildered, and retired florist Christine Saunders, 56 pitched her green mobile home there in March, a month before Mr. Mutegombwa is said to have first visited the area.

“There have been no suspicions or rumors here all summer,’’ she said in an intervieww with the NYT “It’s quiet here. That’s why we like it.’’

Mustafa Abdullah, 24, and Musa Akmet, 47, were charged with one count of possessing information likely to be useful to a terrorist. Mr. Akmet was also charged with illegal possession of a 16- millimeter mini-flare launcher. Hassan Mutegombwa, 20, Yassin’s brother, was charged with one count of procuring financing for terrorism. The British Press Association said the charge was related to seeking money for a one-way airline ticket to Kenya.

All 4 ,who pleaded not guilty will appear at the same court on October 10, by video-link, for an anticipated committal hearing on October 24.

Just to get things in perspective, whilst the assembled nations of the UN, the US , UK , French , Germans watched as the IDF lobbed (amongst many other lethal devices) 1 Million cluster bomblets into Lebanon.

The thing about State Terrorism , is, they have the resources to do it on a better and more effective scale.