Al-Qaida inmates plot beheading

LONDON -- Specialists for Britain's MI5 intelligence service, responsible for monitoring Britain's eight maximum security prisons where convicted al-Qaida terrorists are held, have unearthed a plan to kidnap a prison officer and behead him, then transmit the images onto the Internet, according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.

The discovery was described by MI6 director-general, Jonathan Evans, in a report this week to Home Secretary Jacqui Smith as "a real live threat."

The plot is centered on Whitemoor prison in Cambridgeshire and Frankland jail in County Durham. Between them, they house more than a dozen convicted terrorists.

"In all eight prisons, there is mounting racial tension, but the specific threat to execute an officer and film it on mobile phones is new," states the MI5 report. ....