... or 14 years, or whatever a lenient judge figures is a good, round number. Muslim fanatic Parviz Khan, who plotted to kidnap and kill a British Muslim soldier, has been jailed for life and told he will serve a minimum of 14 years. Khan, 37, of Alum Rock, Birmingham, admitted to planning to lure the soldier off the streets with the promise of drugs and film his beheading.
He also pleaded guilty at Leicester Crown Court via video link from prison to supplying equipment to terrorists in Pakistan and two counts of being in possession of a record or document likely to be of use to a terrorist.
Opening the case against Khan last week, prosecutor Nigel Rumfitt QC revealed Khan was recorded by a listening device at his home as he taught his five-year-old son how to carry out a beheading.
"My son, Sesame Street is the tool of Satan!"
Mr Rumfitt told the court Khan was at the hub of a terrorist cell based in Birmingham which had organised four shipments of equipment to terrorists based in Pakistan but operating against coalition forces in Afghanistan. Mr Rumfitt said of Khan: "He was enraged by the notion that there are Muslim soldiers in the British Army.
"As your Lordship knows, there are many soldiers from many countries who serve with our forces - some of them are Muslims from the Gambia in west Africa.
"Khan decided to kidnap such a soldier with the help of drug dealers operating in Birmingham. He would be taken to a lock-up garage and there he would be murdered by having his head cut off like a pig.
"This would be filmed - they would have the soldier's ID to prove who he was and the film would be released through Khan's terrorist network to cause panic and fear with the British armed forces and the wider public."
It also emerged last week, in proceedings which could not be reported until today, that Khan wanted to burn the soldier's body and parade his head on a stick.
Whoa. It's been 300 years since the last drawin' and quarterin'.
A security services probe installed in Khan's home recorded him in November 2006 telling co-defendant Basiru Gassma what he intended to do. Khan was heard to say: "We give the judgment... well then cut it off like you cut a pig, man
"Then you put it on a stick. Then we throw the body, burn it, send the video to the chacha (a reference to terrorist leaders in Pakistan).
"This is what they call you will terrorise them, they will go crazy. They will start searching... London, Birmingham, Newcastle, where are these people?"
Revealing that the soldier would be befriended before being kidnapped, Khan added: "All I say to you is set it up ... drug dealers they will go with him, one day, they do deal.
"Then the next time you'll take him Broad Street, wine and dine and girl and things. After that they don't get friendly."
Basiru Gassama, 30, pleaded guilty at a previous hearing to a failure to disclose information about the plot. Mohammed Irfan, 31, and Hamid Elasmar, 44, both pleaded guilty to engaging in conduct with the intention of assisting in the commission of acts of terrorism - namely helping Khan to supply the equipment.
Zahoor Iqbal, 30, was found guilty by the jury at Leicester of the same charge. Amjad Mahmood, 32, was found not guilty of failing to inform the authorities about the plot.
A sixth man charged over a plot to kidnap and behead a British Muslim soldier has been found not guilty. 
A sixth man was charged with a terror offence following raids in Birmingham. West Midlands police said