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The UK's first female suicide bomb plotter has told the police during an interview that she was planning a Sri Lanka-style terror attack on St Paul's Cathedral as she is jailed for 14 years, Daily Mail reported.

It said Safiyya Shaikh, 36, who was wearing a black hijab, smiled and raised her index finger in a salute associated with ISIS as she was taken to the cells.

Shaikh, born Michelle Ramsden in Hounslow, west London, told undercover police officers she wanted to 'do a piece of history and kill as many kuffar as possible' in a day of carnage across the capital.

The single mother ran a chat room dedicated to martyrs and told followers of her determination to become Britain's first female suicide bomber.

She was addicted to heroin but said she always wanted to 'do something big' and that killing one infidel was 'not enough for me.'

After setting off the two bombs, she wanted to blow herself up on the London Underground, it can be disclosed.

Shaikh told an undercover officer: 'So this is really what I want but I would like to kill a lot brother. Until I'm killed. This is what I really want. Bi'idnillah [god permitting].

'I am ready for jannah [paradise] but I want to do big things, insha'Allah [god willing].'

Shaikh shared images of Charles and Diana's wedding at the St Paul's and wrote: 'If I had choice I blow the church to ground. With kuffar in it,' adding a laughing emoji.

Interviewed by police, Shaikh confessed that she planned to carry out a suicide bomb attack like the terrorist attack in Sri Lanka in order to gain access to heaven.

Asked what she was planning, she said: 'Obviously if I had the rucksack, you know like what happened in Sri Lanka, like that. I was going to do the same thing - blow everything up.'


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  • DamithW Friday, 03 July 2020 10:03 PM

    Whole Europe is infected with this . but this girl is helpless..

    Lokusalli Saturday, 04 July 2020 11:16 AM

    Sorry ..what do you mean helpless ?

    Ramesh Lokuwitharana Saturday, 04 July 2020 09:41 AM

    Europeans this is your fault. You due to your while allegiance sided with your big brother across Atlantic and went into war the countries from this girl originates. So they have developed hatred against you. After destroying those countries, you then show that you are champions of human rights and allow handful of their people into your countries to do your menial jobs and to replace your aging population. But the hatred does not stop. It grows due to day to day discrimination faced by those individuals in your countries. So these people are easy targets of those ruthless groups to exploit and create chaos in your countries. So this is the root cause. Now your whole Europe is full of these immigrants and it is just a matter of time that you will end up doing menial jobs for them.

    Sammy Saturday, 04 July 2020 10:10 AM

    These vermins are found everywhere.

    Sam Saturday, 04 July 2020 04:47 PM

    Romesh lokuwitharan, You are very wrong.

    Harsha.K Saturday, 04 July 2020 06:21 PM

    to Ramesh Lokuwitharana: Blaming the Europeans? Did you read the news item? the girl is of European heritage converted to Islam. You are also another extreme nutcase like her. For your information...people have the right to move to countries that encourage immigration. Go bark at a different tree.

    Jehan Saturday, 04 July 2020 10:38 PM

    That's a very lengthy comment with absolutely zero substance.If he spent a little time reading this news article he may realize this woman was born in UK and was a white christian before converting to islam.

    MN Sunday, 05 July 2020 10:14 PM

    Whole world together should take action to proscribe this demonic religious concept

    Qed Monday, 13 July 2020 05:42 PM

    Comrade Anura please find a way to twist this so this becomes the fault of Sinhalese Buddhists.


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