article_snippet: It's a case with chilling echoes of the shocking murder by two Islamist extremists of soldier Lee Rigby, mowed down and hacked to death with a machete on a street in Woolwich, in southeast London, in May 2013.
article_snippet: Police who had searched his home two months previously had found a handwritten letter in which his glorified the murder of Rigby, and stated that "we should do a 9/11, 7/7 and a Woolwich all in one day.
article_snippet: a banned London-based terrorist organization "that it is believed played a major role in influencing and shaping his radical views
article_snippet: is Al Muhajiroun, also known as ALM.
article_snippet: Handing down the 22-year sentence, Judge Timothy Pontius said the police had put together a "formidable and unassailable" case against the teenager.
article_snippet: he was within hours of carrying out he intention of murdering a soldier, police officer or government official to imitate the horrifying savagery carried out by the killers of Lee Rigby.
article_snippet: Commander Richard Walton of the Counter Terrorism Command welcomed the sentence, saying Commander Richard Walton of the Counter Terrorism Command was "relieved an extremely dangerous individual" had been removed from the streets.
article_snippet: The work of police and intelligence officials had "probably prevented a horrific terrorist attack taking place on the streets of London," Commander Richard Walton of the Counter Terrorism Command said.