At the sentencing of six Birmingham men convicted of plotting to bomb an English Defence League rally and possibly assassinate its leader, the prosecutor said the men intended to exact vengeance on the EDL for alleged blasphemy and to incur a retaliatory response from the EDL. One of the men, Jewel Uddin, was also linked to another Islamist terror group that was plotting attacks of its own. Another of the men, Zohaib Ahmed, had previously been arrested for possession of jihadist literature, and a third man, Mohammed Hasseen, was found to have 859 files of extremist material.
