המשטרה בבריטניה: הצלחנו למנוע פיגוע גדול נגד הקהילה היהודית במנצ'סטר, 2 המחבלים המעורבים נעצרו

And two men in Britain were convicted of terrorism after planning what could have been the biggest ever terror attack on British soil. The two men smuggled guns into the country and planned to massacre Jews in northern England. NTD's international correspondent Malcolm Hudson has more. Two men were found guilty on Tuesday of plotting to kill hundreds in an Islamic state-inspired gun rampage against the Jewish community in Manchester, England. Investigators say the planned attack demonstrates the resurgent risk posed by the terrorist group. Police said the hatred that Wilad Sadawi, 38, and Ammar Hussain, 52, had towards the Jewish community knew no bounds. Had that plan come to fruition, police said it would have resulted in one of, if not the deadliest terrorist attack in UK history. They sought to bring slaughter to the innocent, but the outstanding dedication and commitment of our people ensured that this unequivocally could not happen. Sadawi had arranged for two AK-47 assault rifles, an automatic pistol, and almost 200 rounds of ammunition to be smuggled into Britain through the port of Dover. Prosecutors added that Sadawi planned to obtain two more AK-47s, another pistol, and collect at least 900 rounds. Unbeknown to him, a man known as Farooq he was trying to get the weapons from was an undercover operative. Police said that meant his plan never came close to being put into operation. Counter-terrorism police intervened on the strike day of May 8 last year, with more than 200 officers involved. Sadawi was arrested at a hotel car park in Bolton where he went to collect some of the firearms, which had been deactivated. Hossein did not give evidence and barely attended his trial after he angrily shouted from the dock on the first day, quote, how many babies, in an apparent reference to Israel's war against Hamas. The two were convicted on a single charge of preparing terrorist acts. A terrorist attack upon our Jewish friends and neighbours is an attack upon us all and is an affront to every decent person in our country. The convictions come little more than a week after a mass shooting at a Jewish Hanukkah celebration on Sydney's Bondi Beach in which 15 people were killed. The site intelligence group said in the wake of Bondi Beach that Islamic State had encouraged Muslims to take action elsewhere, particularly singling out Belgium. Britain's head of the domestic spy agency MI5 Ken McCallum said in October that his service and the police had thwarted 19 late-stage attack plots since the start of 2020 and intervened to counter many hundreds of other terrorism threats. Malcolm Hudson, NTD News, UK.