A chilling revelation from court: the man behind last year’s synagogue attack, Jihad al-Shamie, had scouted a UK military base in Oxfordshire months earlier—planning to strike Israeli soldiers. His associate, delivery driver Mohammad Bashir, drove him there for 13 minutes, gathering intel as part of a deadly extremist plot. Their phones, later seized, revealed a shared extremist worldview and obsession with becoming “war ready.” After the reconnaissance, they destroyed their phones—al-Shamie was killed in the attack, and a bystander died from a stray bullet. Bashir fled the UK but was arrested upon return, pleading guilty to terrorism prep and spreading martyrdom material. The court is now piecing together the full scope of their deadly ambitions.

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