‘I could have easily killed a cop’

A Taliban bombmaker accused of bringing global Jihad to Britain told a court he had ‘many opportunties’ to kill a police officer. Khalid Ali, 28, was carrying three blades when he was arrested just yards from Downing Street claiming he had a ‘message’ for Britain’s decision makers. He was allegedly planning to stab police officers and politicians before he was intercepted on 27 April last year. Ali later told detectives he had returned to Britain from Afghanistan, where he spent…