Britain: Four men have appeared in court accused of plotting a terrorist attack on a Territorial Army base by driving a remote controlled car with a bomb under the gate

Zahid Iqbal, 30, Mohammed Sharfaraz Ahmed, 24, Syed Hussain, 21, and Umar Arshad, 23, are accused of preparing acts of terrorism and possessing documents useful for terrorism. The men are charged with discussing methods, materials and targets for a terrorist attack using firearms and improvised explosive devices between January 2011 and their arrest on April 25, 2012. They researched, downloaded and discussed electronic files containing practical instructions for a terrorist attack. The men are also charged with “encouraging and participating in physical training” in Snowdonia, purchasing survival equipment, and facilitating and planning travel to Pakistan for terrorism. They also collected and supplied funds for terrorist purposes overseas, amounting to more than £180,000 and miniature gold bars worth £10,000. The men had downloaded six issues of the al-Qaeda magazine Inspire which included the recipe, “How to Make a bomb in the kitchen of your Mom” by the al-Qaeda Chef, described as “practical instructions on how to make a viable improvised explosive device.” Other documents found in their possession included 44 Ways to Support Jihad by the former al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki, while two of them had a document called 21 Techniques of Silent Killing and a third man had a copy of the Explosives Course 2.