July 21 plot was stunt to protest over Iraq, defendant tells court

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article1539639.ece
Sean O’Neill
"The July 21 plot was altered after the July 7 attacks to make it look like a suicide mission, its alleged ringleader told a court yesterday. Muktar Said Ibrahim claimed that he had intended initially to make as many as ten hoax bombs, which would be left in public places as a protest against the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. But he changed his plans after the London suicide bomb attacks on July 7, 2005, because he thought a similar pattern of incidents would cause “maximum disruption”."

This article is about his atempt to protest by setting up ten fake bombs so that he would get a positive response from the government. " He came up with a plan to make hoax bombs and down-loaded a video from the internet with instructions in Arabic on how to manufacture peroxide-based explosives, presented by a masked man."
He mixed them and everything by himself.
I am VERY unsettled by this---that someone could find this kind of information online, and would be willing to use it! Try reading this article, it is really bizarre to hear this guy's train of thought: making these "fake" bombs might be a positive form of protest and not get him in serious trouble?!