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THE ABOVE VIDEO shows Ian Charles Forman who was today sentenced to 10 years in a prison for planning to blow up a number of mosques in the Merseyside area.
Forman was convicted under the UK’s Terrorism Act 2006 after police found chemicals, a crude homemade improvised explosive device (IED) and research on a number of mosques in his home.
Greater Manchester Police provided the video following Forman’s conviction which was uncovered as part of their investigations.
The video, which was filmed by Forman himself, show him playing a football computer game, believed to be an edition of Pro Evolution Soccer, whilst wearing a replica SS hat and drinking wine.
Forman first came to the attention of the authotities in April 2013 while he worked as a receptionist.
Colleagues found that he had been researching chemicals and explosive substances online during work hours. When confonted about it he claimed his research was for his hobby of making homemade fireworks.
But colleagues contacted police and a search of his house on Shavington Avenue in Birkenhead was conducted.
There they found found chemicals including potassium nitrate, sulphur and charcoal, a crude IED and a replica Nazi uniform.
Police say that in interviews Forman admitted having extreme right wing views in his youth but claimed he ‘no longer thought like that’.
Computers seized from his home showed a history of research into a number of Merseyside mosques, video clips showing Forman experimenting with explosives and an anti-Islam video he made.
“Thankfully, we will never know how far Forman was prepared to go in acting out his racist fantasies,” said Matt Findell, of the North West Counter-Terrorism Unit.
“Had he carried them out, his attacks could have caused considerable damage to both property and people at several Mosques.”
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In fairness, Germany were always a strong team in Pro Evo so I can understand the hat.
I wonder did he have a girlfriend?!
This might be her. http://www.picshot.pl/pfiles/388994/katya%20sambuca%20(399×590).jpg
why have one when you can have them all…
Why Mosques, I thought the Nazi’s didn’t like Jews?
Too many honkys in da mix. What an invidious race of indifferent consumers and lip serving crackers!
If this was filmed after 2008, it is no wonder he turned to extremism……..only a mad man would play Pro Evo at this stage.
Cue people claiming Pro Evo causes you to kill people….
What’s pro evo?
Well it kinda does. Me and my mates kill each other whenever we play against each other
@gary throw in a few cans of lager & one or two of your most competitive mates & the house will be bloodbath come pub time lol.
If he had played FIFA hed have turned out normal
Pro evolution soccer, it’s a soccer game
@Graham Ah stop, we did that twice before and hell was on earth, and it was in my front room. We all agreed to never play after the first time, but you get hooked. There’s already planning for a World Cup session, not in my house though, my mam hasn’t forgiven me lol
It’s a soccer game on Xbox and play station
So many questions. Such as: if you were thinking of blowing up mosques, wouldn’t it be a good idea not to film yourself with an SS hat on? And: if the mosques were in Merseyside and his house was in Merseyside, why exactly were Greater Manchester Police releasing the video? And: when did Islam become a race?
And why wasn’t he playing fifa? Much better game.
Some seriously deluded people out there who need to get with the modern world… I mean who plays Pro Evo in this day and age!!
The press release by the GMP seems a bit bizarre, if he recorded a statement if intent yeah sure, but playin pro evo and lighting a banger, wtf??
Agreed, if they’d wanted to show a video to justify search and seizure they should have shown something more visceral.
My mate plays This Is Football wearing a KKK gown so this crac is more common than ya think
What’s the whole Nazi sympathiser angle all about? What has that got anything to do with his intended crime to cause mayhem and kill innocent human beings?
He always picked the Germans apparently
Nazi sympathisers are homicidal, evil and prone to look for opportunities to kill those who they consider to belong to inferior races. It is because he is a Nazi sympathiser that he planned to kill.
The only good Nazi is a Nazi in a box 6ft under.
Considering Hitler had a lot of sympathy for Islam, I find it a bit hypocritical for Nazi’s to be targeting Mosques.
Hitler regarded Arabs as some of the lowest of the low but, for his own purposes, granted Honorary Aryan status to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who collaborated with the Nazis in his attempts to impose a “final solution” on the Jews who lived in the British Mandate.
Spot on Richard. Hilter also had a pact with USSR while his goons tortured and murdered German communists. He was a man to make a pact to benefit himself in the short term.
True Richard, but then again he also used the Italians and French the Brittish And even the Irish, the truth is most country’s stood still, history repeats itself and always will.
You don’y have to like Arab’s to like Islam. Hitler thought it was a tragedy that Charlemagne had managed to stop Muslims taking over Europe in the A.D 700′s because he thought the Arabs would die off in Europe’s cold climate and the Islamized “superior Aryan Germanic” people would create a Muslim Empire and destroy Christianity which was, unlike Islam, against his survival of the fittest ideas and too close to Judaism. It’s all on Wikipedia if you want to look it up.
Link please, John Bransfield. Thanks.
Just look up religious views of Adolf Hitler on Wikipedia.
Thank you John. Will read up on that tonight!
I have a feeling that hitler would have sent most of today’s neo nazis to concentration camps.
Nazis and neo Nazis are similar. They are evil, nasty and cowardly thugs and so are those who give them tacit support.
The concentration camps were in fact death camps and Hitler was a megalomaniac and psychopath as are those who seek to rehabilitate his memory.
I bet he’s a right fecker for rage quitting.
Nazi nerd, the only thing he’d blow is his load.
Look I think most people agree that Fifa has the gloss, the bells and the whistles but Pro Evo is definitely for the football purist.
Nit since 09 pro evo has fallen so flat on its face it’s such a shame and im a big or evo mark but it just sucks now
Are sure ya can’t be hating the oul Muslims – sure they wouldn’t hurt a fly
The main issue here is clear – why didn’t he just use a bigger wine glass?
He should have went to Ukraine. He be very welcome by home US puppet regime in Kiev.
Pro Evo broke my heart few times since 08 converted to the cult of Fifa
Godwin’s Law
It hardly applies here.
Apparently International Superstar Soccer Deluxe was a gateway drug for him…
Fortunately his work colleagues informed the Police about his “research” .
I would say that the individual is not the brightest tool in the toolbox but he could have caused injury and death.
Unless he was going to do a Sammy Copeland and buy in a few tons of fiireworks, or pop off to the local B&Q like any good soilder of Islam and stock up on fertilizer and a few gallons of hydrogen peroxide,he would have produced a few giant bangers the way he was going.
That’s absolutely dreadful -I mean everyone knows Pro Evo is crap compared to FIFA! !
He probably still uses Microsoft Explorer too!!
What a Plonker!!
If he was planning to destroy Churches, they would probably say ; ‘ a mis guided young man , but he has potential ‘ 3 years.
I want to know where he bought the hat….
Off your Dad
Haha, okay Peter. You do understand I was only messing when I posted the original comment?!
Kudos on the hashtag, Ronan.
A bit harsh , especially since he had done nothing wrong
0:43 Through on goal. Pressed circle instead of square.
He is a sick evil sod and will be unsafe in prison.
Guess the Aryan Brotherhood will have a new member and he’ll learn there with them how to be a exellent killer when he comes out.
It is more likely that a radicalised Muslim will kill him. His days are numbered. Eventually he will be killed unless kept in solitary confinement.
What a mupp!
Ah pro evo,the purists choice!plays like real ball,people too caught up in the big license to notice the shitty gameplay of fifa!
At least he’s not playing Fifa
Who has been to the Coventry conference? I don’t agree with that in the workplace!!
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