By Lucy Caulkett-
A teenager has been found guilty at the Old Bailey of plotting a terror attack on the British Museum in London with Britain’s first all-woman cell.
18 year old Safaa Boular of Vauxhall, London, plotted a gun and grenade attack on the British Museum. She becomes Britain’s youngest convicted female Islamic State terrorist.
A jury at the Old Bailey found her guilty of two offences of preparation of terrorism acts. Boular planned to travel to Syria to join IS militants and later preparing to carry out a terrorist attack in London after her fiancé, an Islamic State fighter, died. She collaborated with her evil and dysfunctional family in attempting to execute their evil plans.
The Old Bailey heard that by early 2016, Safaa Boular had developed an extremist mindset, downloading pictures of a child in a suicide belt, a woman in a suicide belt, and images of beheadings.
She admitted that the idea of dying as a martyr appealed to her after being interviewed by police in August 2016 as she returned from a family holiday in Morocco .She told officers she had 300 or 400 ISIS “friends” online that she kept hidden from her British friends.Her twisted 22 year old sister Rizlaine from London also admitted planning a knife attack on London . Her 44 year old mother Mina Dich, has also pleaded guilty to assisting her in the mindless attack which planned to wreak harvoc on innocent members of the public.
The women were snared in a “proactive” investigation involving surveillance by counter-terrorism police and MI5 agents posing online as IS operatives.Counter-terrorism chief Dean Haydon, of Scotland Yard, said the case demonstrated a worrying rise in youngsters being arrested for terrorism.
The court heard how Boular was only 16 when she was wooed online by Coventry-born IS fighter Naweed Hussain, 32. After an online marriage ceremony and talks of donning his-and-hers suicide belts to achieve martyrdom together. Hussain was very serious about his plans which he unwittingly leaked to British secret service agents posing as Isil supporters online, before eventually being killed in a drone strike. Boular discovered the successful drone killing from a secret agent pretending to be her lover’s commander, and expressed great sorrow before pledging to join the agent for terrorist plans in the UK. wICKED HEARTED Boular revealed to the undercover officer how Hussain had talked about attacking the British Museum with a “tokarev” Russian-made pistol and “pineapples” – code for grenades.
n December 2016, Hussain told one of the undercover MI5 agents that their plan involved someone he “trusted with his life”, adding: “The place that has to be visited is the capital. I believe this is best for maximum carnage. The other person will not go alive, I tell you this now, so all out until you reach jannah [paradise].”
In April last year, MI5 bugged the Boular family home in Vauxhall, south London, and heard Safaa discussing with her mother what it would feel like to die as a martyr. M15 also bugged the home of Rizlaine’s friend, where they heard the shocking details of their cruel rehearsals.
In a phone call with her sister Rizlaine, the pair used coded language, referring to the upcoming attack as an Alice in Wonderland-themed tea party.
Rizlaine told Safaa: “It’s going to be like me and a few sisters and stuff and we’re just going to have fun. It’s basically going to be like a tea party and stuff.”
Rizlaine and Mina Dich visited a local Sainsbury supermarket in order to buy kitchen knives, which they were planning to use to stab a police officer near Parliament.
The pair also undertook a reconnaissance trip by car, driving around major landmarks in the Westminster area.