Terror Plot Foiled: London Embassy Attack

0:00On May 1st, a 34-year-old man named Abdullah Al-Badri just got found guilty at London's Old Bailey of preparing a tear-related knife attack. On the Israeli Embassy, he tried scaling the railings there on April 28 last year, armed with two knives, but armed officers stopped him cold. Al-Badri had crossed the English Channel in a small bow from France just 16 days earlier, his second illegal entry in four years. He's from the stateless Badoon tribe, born in Kuwait, where his activist past landed him five years in prison due to his ethnicity. His motive tied straight to Israel's Warren Gaza. He told officers he wanted to stop the fighting, especially on kids. That morning, he snapped a pick of a martyrdom note next to a knife and texted it to his mom, saying he chose that path to hit enemies in their own home. During the hour-long walk to the embassy, scarf over his head and eyes only showing he prayed the whole way. Officers wrestled him down, found the note and blades, and even taunted them, asking

1:01why they blocked his crimes while wishing for a shootout. The jury took almost 14 hours to deliver a majority-guilty verdict on tear prep and blade possession. This case spotlights the risks of quick-channel crossings, turning into bigger threats right here in the capital.