Transatlantic Bomb Plotter: Hey, It Was Just a YouTube Stunt

Don't you know, he was just a budding film-maker. Oh, and that suicide video? All part of the elaborate scheme. Now why is everyone hassling the poor guy just because of his creative genius?

A man accused of plotting to blow up transatlantic airliners has claimed he was making a harmless “al-Qa'eda style” documentary which involved smuggling a bomb into Parliament as a demonstration against British foreign policy.

The story unfolded as one of the alleged plot leaders launched his defence at Woolwich Crown Court in South East London.

Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 27, a computer graduate from Walthamstow, East London, claimed the gang had no intention of killing anyone and believed that suicide attacks were against Islam.

He has already been seen by the jury in what was said to be a homemade “suicide video” describing himself as the “leader of this blessed operation” and warning his audience to expect “volcanoes of anger and revenge.”

The gang was under surveillance by MI5 which bugged the “bomb factory” and arrested Ali as he met another man in a council car park in August 2006.

But today he said: “I have seen a lot of documentaries over the years and we thought we should make our own.

”We also thought we should make threats and demands. Basically we wanted to get the message across that British foreign policy is not in the interests of the people of Afghanistan and Iraq and not in the interests of the British people.

”Only Tony Blair is now making millions of pounds and the people with the oil.”

Hmm. Mimicking leftwing talking points. I hope the libs are proud. They probably believe this monster.

Mr Ali said the idea was to copy the style of Islamic terrorists.

He said the “martyrdom videos” made by six of the accused including Ali, were really “propaganda videos.”

”In the style of al-Qa'eda militants we wanted to put the blame on foreign policy and make demands that they have to change foreign policy.

”People only seem to get involved if you affect them in some way.”

Yes, like involving the mass murder of thousands of innocents.

There were plenty of people unwittingly involved on 9/11 and they're all dead, asshole.

He said the “documentary” would also include clips of deaths in Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine along with statements by politicians and would be edited together by a friend on his computer.

The men wanted to attract “mass media attention” by putting the documentary on Youtube, he said.

Where, no doubt, it would probably be widely viewed and kept there despite complaints.