{"id":89839,"date":"2020-02-22T17:00:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T22:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=89839"},"modified":"2020-02-22T18:42:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T23:42:21","slug":"bbc-st-paul-cathedrals-bomb-plot-isis-supporter-safiyya-shaikh-pleads-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=89839","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) St Paul Cathedral&#8217;s bomb plot: ISIS supporter Safiyya Shaikh pleads guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A supporter of the banned Islamic State terror group has admitted plotting to blow herself up in a bomb attack on St Paul&#8217;s Cathedral.<\/p>\n<p>Muslim convert Safiyya Shaikh went on a reconnaissance trip to scope out the London landmark and a hotel.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old, born Michelle Ramsden, was arrested after asking an undercover police officer to supply bombs.<\/p>\n<p>At the Old Bailey, Shaikh, of west London, admitted preparing an act of terrorism and will be sentenced in May.<\/p>\n<p>She was considered such a threat that MI5 made her the highest-level priority for investigation in the weeks before her arrest, according to Whitehall security sources.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-51583815\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">UK: Safiyya Amira Shaikh ISIS supporter pleads guilty to St. Paul&#8217;s Cathedral bomb plot <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5HmLnEJmB9\">https:\/\/t.co\/5HmLnEJmB9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Natasha Fatah (@NatashaFatah) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NatashaFatah\/status\/1230853041462620162?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 21, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A supporter of the banned Islamic State terror group has admitted plotting to blow herself up in a bomb attack on St Paul&#8217;s Cathedral. Muslim convert Safiyya Shaikh went on a reconnaissance trip to scope out the London landmark and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=89839\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[389,199,114,184,108,148,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-law-legal-issues","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89841,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89839\/revisions\/89841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}