The outsider may suspect that this is a Taffia plot to boost Welsh-speakers' job prospects, but Mr Jones maintains that no English monoglot is barred from employment.
Fahad Naseem, asuspect in Pearl's kidnapping, told a judge last week that the plot's accused mastermind, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, told him he had wanted to kidnap someone Jewish and anti-Islamic.
In a 2009 plot to bomb the New York City subway system, suspect Najibullah Zazi was able to purchase significant quantities of hydrogen peroxide, which he hoped to distill to a higher concentration that would make an effective bomb.