British prosecutors have charged a 24-year-old Muslim man with planning to attack U.S. military personnel based in the U.K.
Junead Ahmed Khan, a delivery driver from Luton town in north of London, allegedly planned to run over U.S. troops in his car before killing them with a knife or blowing himself up, reported Daily Mail.
"He was planning a car accident-style attack to run over a serviceman and use a knife to kill that serviceman, and to do so, certainly had in mind the wearing of a suicide vest," prosecutor Mark Dawson said, according to Telegraph.
He was also charged with planning to travel to Syria along with his uncle Shazib Ahmed Khan, 22, to join Islamic State terror group.
"It is alleged that Junead Khan and Shazib Khan had been planning on travelling to Syria to join the proscribed organisation Islamic State in Levant (Isis)," Deborah Walsh, deputy head of counter-terrorism at the Crown Prosecution Service, said, according to Guardian.
Both men were arrested last week under the Terrorism Act. They appeared in the Westminster Magistrates' Court in London on Tuesday and remanded in custody to appear on August 10, Metropolitan police said in a statement.
Two men from #Luton charged under TACT https://t.co/beMy8V9abm pic.twitter.com/wV0KCK14VD
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The pair was charged with offenses under the Terrorism Act and within hours of Prime Minister David Cameron announced a five-year strategy to counter terrorism.
"I want Britain to do more. Be in no doubt, we're committed to working with you to destroy the caliphate in both countries. We've already carried out more airstrikes in Iraq than anyone else other than the United States. I want us to step up and do more - what I call a full-spectrum response," British prime minister said, according to Express.
More than 700 U.K. citizens travelled to Syria or Iraq to join Islamic State since 2011.
