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UK remands Islamist preacher in custody on terror charges

2023-07-25

Both arrested a week ago, but clearly not to be trusted out on bail until convicted and starting their formal prison sentences.

[IsraelTimes] Radical holy man Anjem Choudary was arrested together with a Canadian man; both are charged with being members of a terrorist organization

British Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary

...self-proclaimed holy man who used to work for Omar Mohammed Bakdri as spokesman for al-Muhajiroun. Anjem is a loathesome little attention prostitute who is to be heard cheering for the home team anytime anybody with a turban manages to slaughter a group of unarmed infidels. Anjem was born in the UK in 1967 and is, as you would expect, of Pakistaini descent. The Ghost of Dante is of the opinion that when he goes to hell his knees will be broken once a month. He was in jug for awhile for supporting the Islamic State...
was remanded in jug by a UK magistrate on Monday, after London’s Metropolitan police charged him with three terrorism offenses.

Choudary, 56, faces charges of belonging to a proscribed organization, addressing meetings to encourage support for a proscribed organization and directing a terrorist organization, the force said.

A 28-year-old Canadian, Khaled Hussein,

...anyone know what his birth name was? He somehow doesn’t look like a Khaled...

was also ordered held in jug after he was charged with membership of a proscribed organization.

Both appeared separately at Westminster Magistrates Court in London, which heard that the charges relate to "an extreme form of Islam."

"The charges relate to the proscribed organization al-Muhajiroun
...formerly Omar Bakri Muhammad's spin off group from Hizb ut-Tahrir in Britain, where the detestable lunatic Anjem Chaudry got his start. More recently the name adopted by al-Qaeda in East Africa for operations in Kenya and Tanzania. It is subordinate to al-Shabaab but will probably be strong enough to fly on its own, given an uninterrupted flow of petrodollars, should the Shaboobs collapse....
, also known as the Islamic Thinkers Society," prosecutor Nick Price said.

Anjem Choudary’s branch fed fighters to both Al Qaeda and ISIS, being the connection to oodles of vicious men in our archives and beyond.

"Criminal proceedings against Mr. Choudary and Mr. Hussein are now active and they each have the right to a fair trial," he added.

Chief magistrate Paul Goldspring ordered the pair remanded in jug and set their next appearance, at the central criminal courthouse known as the Old Bailey, on August 4.

Choudary, from east London, wore a black jacket and glasses, and spoke only to confirm his name, date of birth and address during Monday’s 30-minute court hearing. He was not asked to enter any pleas to the three charges.

A lawyer for Hussein, who is from Edmonton in the Canadian province Alberta, said he would not be entering a plea. The defendant spoke — in a Canadian accent — only to confirm his name, date of birth and address.

He is alleged to have been in "close contact" with Choudary online to provide "a platform" for the group’s views for around two years, the court heard.

Counterterror officers investigating alleged membership of the proscribed organization arrested both men last Monday, the Metropolitan police has said.

Officers detained Choudary in east London and held Hussein at Heathrow Airport after he arrived on a flight.

The BBC has a photo of the weedy, Canadian-looking Mr. Hussein, adding:

Mr Hussein is charged with being a member of Al Muhajiroun. Prosecutors allege he helped set up its Canadian branch and say he was "in effect working for" Choudary.

An offshoot of Al-Muhajiroun was banned, or proscribed, in 2006 for glorifying terrorism.

That ban was expanded in 2010 to include a number of other names, including Al-Muhajiroun.

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92 terrorists could be released from jail in the next year: Pressure mounts on parole board to keep fiends behind bars as they reach half-way point in sentences

2021-12-30

Several of 92 active terror cases could come before Parole Board next year

Terrorists must serve two thirds of sentence before they are eligible for release

Cases under review include Nazam Hussain,

...in a 9-man Al Qaeda bomb squad of Brit nationals from Bangladesh and Pakistan, the man from Stoke-on-Trent wanted to go to Pakistan’s Kashmir for training...
Jack Coulson

...merely a Nazi-loving bomb maker, not a jihadi...
and Rangzieb Ahmed
...captured and reportedly tortured in Pakistan by the ISI in 2006 before being turned over to the London authorities, the Pakistan-born Brit was a member of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen and Al Qaeda’s top man in the UK...
Hussain jailed for plotting attacks with London Bridge terrorist Usman Khan
...the Pakistani-Brit jailbird who in November, 2019 ran off from a crime conference to knife all the passersby he could reach on London Bridge before being killed by a hero wielding a narwhal tusk. As a precocious 15 year old drop-out he’d gotten on terrorist watchlists for preaching hate with Anjem Chaudary’s al-Muhajiroun on the streets of Stoke-on-Trent. Released in 2018 after serving time for plotting to bomb the London stock exchange for Al Qaeda in Arabia, but ISIS claimed he died while running amok in their name...

Emergency laws were passed in February blocking the automatic release of terrorists behind bars after two attacks were carried out in a three-month period by extremists who had recently been freed from jail.

Also mentioned in the article:

Abdalraouf Abdallah

... Libyan-Brit paraplegic as a result of “Tripoli Brigade” jihading in Libya, he organized emigration to ISIS in Syria for the Manchester Libya crowd...

was jailed after he assisted his brother Mohammed Abdallah

...who realized the ambitions of his wheelchair-bound brother by becoming an ISIS sniper...

in travelling to Syria to join Islamic State. The extremist was recalled to prison for breaching the conditions of his licence earlier this year, and was visited in prison by Manchester Arena suicide bomber Salman Abedi.

Jawad Akbar

...connected to Anjem Choudary's Al-Muhajiroun, their little Al Qaeda cell planned to set off fertilizer bombs across England...

is one of five terrorists who plotted to bomb the Bluewater shopping centre in Dartford, Kent, and the Ministry of Sound nightclub in hLondon in 2004.

Aras Hamid,

...leader of a three-man cell of Kurds connected to the Al Noor mosque in Birmingham...

who tried to leave the UK to join fighters with so-called Islamic State.

Since the introduction of the Terrorist Offenders (Restriction of Early Release) Act 2020, a total of 117 cases have been referred to the Parole Board. To date, 11 have been freed and 14 refused release from prison.

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Britain

Student, 21, is jailed for nearly five years for downloading video on how to make shrapnel-laden suicide vest despite being referred to Government's anti-terror 'Prevent' programme

2020-10-01

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]

'Obsessional' Muslim convert Liam Fenn, from Wigan, Greater Manchester was referred to Prevent following comments made at college in 2017

He had emailed terror group Al Muhajiroun

... Anjem Choudary‘s group, currently linked to ISIS, that has connections to an astounding number of jihadis on various battlefronts over the years ...
asking 'how best to conduct jihad'

In January he was arrested after downloading 'enormous volume' of material

This included detailed videos showing how to manufacture an explosive vest

He is autistic

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Britain

Usman Khan came to UK security services' attention at age of 15 for hate-preaching

2019-12-02

[The News (Pak)] British media said Sunday the London Bridge attacker, Usman Khan, was a known krazed killer who preached hate with ISIS and al-Muhajiroun
...formerly Omar Bakri Muhammad's spin off group from Hizb ut-Tahrir in Britain, where the detestable lunatic Anjem Chaudry got his start. More recently the name adopted by al-Qaeda in East Africa for operations in Kenya and Tanzania. It is subordinate to al-Shabaab but will probably be strong enough to fly on its own, given an uninterrupted flow of petrodollars, should the Shaboobs collapse....
flags on the streets of Stoke-on-Trent.

UK media also highlighted that Khan had come to the British security services' attention at the age of 15 but that no action had been taken by the authorities to discourage his hate-preaching.

In further confirmation of the fact that Usman Khan had no relation of any kind with Pakistain as far his extremism is concerned, British media and commentators have condemned UK’s counter-terrorism approach and jail system.

It has been now confirmed that Khan was a close friend and student of Anjem Chaudary, a convicted krazed killer preacher. After the London Bridge attacker was arrested with his Bangladeshi and Indian terror associates in 2010 in relation to the gang’s London bombings, Anjum Chaudhary described him as his "student" and "friend".

Media further wrote that Khan was bullied at school over his facial hair and suffered exclusion and racism when he was a child. The son of a hard-working taxi driver, he attended Haywood High School in Burslem, Stoke, but dropped out without any qualifications.

Local media also added that Khan desperately tried to fit in by wearing designer clothes and be liked at school by keeping up with the latest fashion but had no confidence and would never speak up. He had started growing beard at an early age.

Investigators believe that his parents, who came to the UK from Azad Kashmir
Kashmir

...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
, were moderate people and had no relation with either terrorism or the krazed killer views of their oddball son.

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Britain

Inquest: Police shot dead wounded London Bridge terrorists as they writhed on the street moments after one of them wiped victims' blood off his knife with his BEARD

2019-05-09

[Daily Mail]

Khuram Butt

...also known as the very connected Pakistani-Brit known wolf Khuram Shazad Butt and Abu Zaitun, a televised member of Anjem Choudary‘s ISIS-linked Al Muhajiroun group...
wiped a bloodied knife on his beard during horrific attack

Inquest hears how brave Ignacio Echeverria tried to tackle terrorist killers

Jihadi trio

...the other two being Moroccan/Libyan pastry chef Rachid Redouane (a.k.a. Rachid Elkhdar) and Moroccan-Italian known wolf Youssef Zaghba...
had fake suicide vests strapped to their chests when they were shot

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Britain

London Transport Network Purges ‘Extremist Workers’ to Stop Islamic State Attack

2018-04-10

[Breitbart] There has been a purge of extremists and potential terrorists working on London’s transport network to guard against another Islamic State attack, the Government’s security minister has revealed.

Ben Wallace said Britain faces an “acute” terror threat, and the move would help police and emergency services in their fight to keep Londoners safe, following four successful attacks by radical Muslims in the capital last year.

He told the Evening Standard there had been an intensive effort to identify potential attackers and those who “would pose a risk to London and its transport network” had already been removed from their jobs on the network.

London Bridge terrorist Khuram Butt

...also in the archives as Khuram Shazad Butt, he plowed through pedestrians on London Bridge with Rachid Redouane and Youssef Zaghba before rampaging through the area knifing everyone within reach in the name of ISIS until the police shot them dead. The known wolf was a member of Al-Muhajiroun and had appeared in a Channel 4 documentary called ‘The Jihadist Next Door’ ...

had a customer safety job on the London Underground network before becoming an Islamic State killer, which he could have used to strike trains. The 2005 7/7 bombers also famously attacked the Tube and a London bus (pictured).

UKIP spokesman and Lonon Assembly member Peter Whittle commented: “This is truly alarming. But anybody bringing this up before would have been called alarmist and scaremongering.”

Last year, it was revealed that there are at least 23,000 extremists and jihadists in Britain that the police have previously investigated or monitored, with around 3,000 under active scrutiny.

“We’ve done a lot of work over the last year about people working in sensitive areas who shouldn’t be, and removing their ability to do so,” Mr Wallace said.

“It’s reducing the insider threat. There are definitely people who have worked in sensitive areas that we have now removed who would pose a risk to London and its networks of transport.

“We’ve got to protect as well as pursue. There are more things we can do around where these people work.”

He added: “We have an acute number of people in this country who are attracted to extremism or violent extremism.

“You can’t arrest your way out of that so you have to develop a way that you can early intervene with some people. Disruption is really important.”

The Government has already admitted that a “significant portion” of the British jihadists who went to fight in Iraq and Syria are back in the country, and some recent attackers, including the Parson’s Green and Manchester bombers, were asylum seekers or from asylum seeker families.

Mr Wallace claimed officials would also be using immigration law to help prevent attacks.

“There are some people whose immigration status may be rightly examined to remove them from threat and there are people involved in normal crime who we could take off the streets,” he suggested.

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Britain

Britain ~~migrant~~ colonist briefs

2017-11-12

Dissatisfied Syrian Refugees Had ‘Unrealistically High’ Expectations of NHS, House Sizes in Britain
10 November
[Breitbart] Syrian refugees who were resettled in Britain last year are dissatisfied with the NHS, and unhappy about being placed outside of cities, according to a UN report.

‘Different Cultural Norms’ – Pakistani Doctor Assaulted Student Nurse He Saw as ‘Sexually Available’
9 November
[Breitbart] Married Pakistani doctor Imran Rauf Qureshi, 44, faces being struck off after sexually assaulting a student nurse he saw as “sexually available”, blaming different “culture norms” for his behaviour.

Young And Menace: Half of Anti-Terror Referrals are Teenagers and Children
9 November
[Breitbart] Teenagers and children accounted for half of those referred to the government’s counter-terror initiative over a 12 month period, new data reveals.

Number of ‘Islamist Extremist’ Books Confiscated in UK Prisons Doubles
8 November
[Breitbart] A rising number of prisoners caught with extremist Islamist texts in UK jails is fuelling fears the prison system is becoming a hotbed of radicalisation.

From the Daily Mail -- immigration:

Violent asylum seeker jailed THREE times as he battled for ten years against deportation is awarded £4,000 compensation because he was 'unlawfully' held under curfew after he was released from jail
09/11/17
Lawyers at the High Court in London argued that Thierno lbrahima Jollah - who was jailed for assault, child cruelty and threatening court witnesses - was entitled to £35,000.

French people smuggler, 28, tried to foil UK sniffer dogs by spreading CHILLI POWDER around his rented campervan then tried to sneak an Iraqi family in to Britain
09/11/17
Skelly Monpierre, 28, who was driving the vehicle, was stopped at Harwich International Port in Essex as he disembarked a ferry from the Hook of Holland. He was jailed for three years by Chelmsford Crown Court.

Child migrants to have priority in the NHS: High Court judge rules young who arrive unaccompanied must be put at the head of the queue
07/11/17
Young children who arrive in Britain as unaccompanied asylum seekers should get first place in the queue for schools and healthcare, a High Court judge has declared.

'I hope you get deported': Judge slams illegal Kuwaiti immigrant who claimed to be 'Saddam Hussein' and savagely raped a stranger after watching 'outdoor' porn on his phone as he jails him for 12 years
06/11/17
Abdel-Aziz Al-Shamary, who originally came into the country illegally, punched his victim in the nose and then raped her on a grassy bank by the River Skerne after she left a pub in Darlington.

Police find 15 illegal immigrants stowed away in the back of a lorry at a service station on the M2 in Kent
26/10/17
Police have found 15 illegal immigrants stowed away in the back of a lorry at a service station in Kent (pictured). Border Force have handed the group into the care of the immigration officials.

The stowaway migrants who picked the wrong coach! Group hide in bus taking former detectives back to Britain from France... then clamber out to find they are in a police sports club in Hertfordshire
25/10/17
A pair of Sudanese migrants realised they'd chosen the wrong coach to hide in on a trip from Calais to Dover when they found it was filled with 22 former Met Police detectives.

Around 100 migrants still reach Britain from Calais every week despite official claims the scandal ended when the Jungle was closed last year
24/10/17
A French charity claims around 100 migrants are still reaching the UK each week from France despite the closure of the Calais 'Jungle' camp which aimed to stop the border crossing crisis.

Syrian refugee, 20, who came to UK in back of a lorry has emotional reunion with his family after being told he won't be thrown out of the country
18/10/17
Mohammed Mirzo, 20, enjoyed an emotional reunion with his family in Cardiff after being freed from an immigration Centre in Oxfordshire where he faced deportation from the UK.

From the Daily Mail -- ISIS:

Boxing champion turned Islamic hate preacher, 36, who starred on a Muslim reality show and became friends with Anjem Choudary is jailed after illegally sub-letting his council flat
09/11/17
Anthony Small, 36, also known as Abdul Haqq, and partner Maryam Malik, 25, illegally sublet two south London housing association properties for up to £900 a month. Small belongs to banned terror group Al Muhajiroun and is a close associate of hate preacher Anjem Choudary.

Judge spares mother-of-five from jail after she encouraged UK terror attacks on pro-ISIS Facebook group as he tells her: 'The sooner you get back to your children the better'
08/11/17
Farhana Ahmed, 40, from north-west London, who encouraged terror attacks on the UK on a pro-ISIS Facebook group has been spared jail at the Old Bailey.

'ISIS bomb-maker' shared graphic videos of child jihadis executing prisoners with pharmacist girlfriend he met on SingleMuslim.com - and she asked him to 'send some more', court is told
06/11/17
Factory worker Munir Mohammed, from Derby, and pharmacy graduate Rowaida el-Hassan, 33, are accused of plotting to carry out a terror attack with a homemade bomb.

About 50 British schoolgirls are taken into care because their parents have joined ISIS or were stopped on their way to Syria
06/11/17
Dozens of British schoolgirls have been taken into care after their parents joined ISIS, the national lead for counterterrorism policing has revealed. Mark Rowley, who is also the Metropolitan Police's assistant commissioner said around 50 children - mostly girls - were made wards of court of were taken into care amid fears they could be radicalised given their parents' beliefs.

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Gang who called themselves 'Musketeers' guilty of plotting UK bomb attack

2017-08-02

[SkyNews] Police found a "viable" pipe bomb in one of the defendant's cars - the gang claimed an undercover officer had planted the device.

A gang of men who styled themselves as the "musketeers" have been found guilty of plotting a bomb and knife attack in the UK.

Naweed Ali and Khobaib Hussain from Birmingham, and Mohibur Rahman and Tahir Aziz from Stoke-on-Trent, stood trial at the Old Bailey after counter-terror police found a pipe bomb described as "viable".

MI5 and undercover police officers had set up a fake firm in the city called Hero Couriers which employed both Hussain and Ali. The pair were being monitored after earlier terrorist-related convictions.

During Ali's first day working at the Birmingham firm last August, police searched his black Seat car and were surprised to find the bomb alongside ammunition, an imitation handgun and a meat cleaver with the word "kafir" - meaning non-believer - scratched into the blade.

It prompted a major security alert and the area around Florence Street close to the city centre went into lockdown, with the Army's bomb squad tasked with making sure the pipe bomb would not explode.

Latex gloves and industrial tape were also recovered.

Police immediately arrested all four men and seized a large sword which had been stashed in Aziz's car.

Aziz said the sword was for self-defence and claimed he was doing research when asked to explain what he was doing with pages from an al Qaeda pipe bomb-making article.

Jurors were told Hussain had previously handled the same type of pipes used for the bomb on his gas-fitter's course and his DNA was on the roll of tape.

The four men had denied plotting the attack and claimed in court an undercover MI5 officer known as Vincent had planted the bomb in the vehicle.

Ali's car had been parked at the "covert" courier firm while he went to Luton to deliver a parcel.

Vincent was cross-examined over 12 days and repeatedly rejected the allegations against him.

Stephen Kamlish QC suggested Vincent had put a bag of incriminating evidence in Ali's vehicle before MI5 turned up to bug it.

He alleged that was his only window of opportunity as MI5 had already bugged Hussain's car after he had begun working for Hero Couriers the month before.

Jurors agreed with Vincent and, after deliberating for 22 hours, convicted Ali, 29, Hussain, 25, and Rahman, 33, of preparing terrorist acts.

Aziz, 38, was found guilty of the same offence after the jury deliberated for another 20 minutes.

As they were led from the dock, Rahman shouted out: "I hope you're happy with your lies. Lying scumbags."

Next-door neighbours Ali and Hussain had previously been convicted after travelling to Pakistan to attend a terror training camp, although neither man went through with the training.

Rahman had earlier served a five-year sentence for possessing materials linked to terrorism.

The three men met inside HMP Belmarsh in southeast London and went on to plot the pipe bomb attack that was intercepted by the authorities.

West Midlands Police arrested the four men shortly after they discovered the bomb and have been unable to identify where the men had planned to detonate it.

The four are due to be sentenced on Thursday.

The BBC adds:

Police say the men, who had all denied preparing terrorist acts, were inspired by so-called Islamic State, also known as Daesh.

They were described as "dangerous men" who were committed to carrying out a "mass casualty attack".

Officers said the case was "one of the most complex counter terrorism investigations in a number of years".

The court heard how the members of the gang called themselves the Three Musketeers when exchanging encrypted messages on the Telegram app.

Neighbours Ali and Hussain have previously been jailed for attempting to join an al-Qaeda training camp in Pakistan in 2011.

The trial heard the pair first met Rahman - who had been convicted of possessing an al-Qaeda magazine - while in prison.

Update from the Daily Mail at 1:40 p.m. EDT:

Three terrorists who called themselves the 'Three Musketeers' are facing jail after their plot to carry out a London Bridge-style knife rampage was foiled by undercover MI5 agents.

Rahman claimed MI5 agents tried to recruit him as informant against hate preacher Anjem Choudary, but instead he joined the 'Three Musketeers' plot to unleash havoc with their haul of guns, knives and ammunition.

The terror trio had links to hate preacher Anjem Choudary

...the ISIS-linked head of Al Muhajiroun, who is connected to an astounding number of convicted British jihadis. He was recently moved from the general population of the high security prison hosting him for the next half decade to become the first resident of its new isolation ward...

but judge feared telling the jury could prejudice the trial.

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Teen who plotted to bomb Elton John concert on 9/11 anniversary sentenced to life

2017-07-04

[ITV] A teenager who plotted to bomb an Elton John concert on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks has been jailed for life.

Haroon Syed tried to acquire weapons online, including a bomb vest and a machine gun.

The 19-year-old identified the Hyde Park event as a possible target and was caught by the British Security Service who posed as a fellow extremist who could help him source the weapons .

Key evidence was gathered from Syed's communications with the fake contact Abu Yusuf via mobile phone and social media.

The Old Bailey heard the trigger for his radicalisation was the arrest of his older brother for plotting a so-called Islamic State-inspired Poppy Day attack.

The teenager from Hounslow, west London, had admitted preparation of terrorist acts between April and September last year.

Mitigating, Mark Summers QC said it was a "crude, ill-thought-out" plan made at the behest of others.

The court heard Syed had fallen under the influence of members of the banned group Al-Muhajiroun (ALM), which is linked to jailed preacher Anjem Choudary.

Despite the risk around the time of his brother's arrest, Syed, slipped through the net of the Prevent anti-radicalisation team although his passport was seized in 2015.

Home Office approved de-radicalisation expert and Bradford imam Alyas Karmani told the court there should have been earlier intervention in his case.

Mr Summers added that Syed now publicly rejected his past beliefs and condemned the recent bomb attack at the Ariana Grande pop concert in Manchester.

But Judge Michael Topolski QC said the risk Syed posed warranted a discretionary life sentence and ordered him to serve a minimum of 16 and a half years.

Judge Michael Topolski QC said Syed "remained intent" on carrying out an act of mass murder.

"You were not lured, you were not enticed, you were not entrapped.

"You became, and in my judgement as shown by your online activities away from your contact with Abu Yusuf, deeply committed to the ideology of a brutal and barbaric organisation that sought to hijack and corrupt an ancient and venerable religion for its own purposes and you wanted to be part of it," he added.

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Day 4: London Bridge attacker appeared in Channel 4 doc on ‘British jihadis’

2017-06-06

[RT] Khuram Shazad Butt,
Notice that the name is Pakistained.
one the London Bridge attackers recently identified by police, appeared in a Channel 4 documentary called ‘The Jihadist Next Door’ last year. Police were reportedly alerted after he was filmed praying behind a jihadist Black Standard and attempting to recruit children at a local park.

Butt, 27, from Barking, East London was part of a “group of British extremists intent on spreading their message of global jihad” who appeared in the program.

In the documentary, Butt (wearing all beige) is filmed praying with the Black Standard with white shahada (Islamic creed) flag in the forefront, along with a group of other radical Muslims in the middle of London’s Regent’s Park. The variations of the Black Standard with white shahada has been used by numerous jihadist groups including al-Qaeda and Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).

A police statement released Monday said Butt was known to police and the domestic intelligence agency MI5, but was not thought to have been planning an attack.

And courtesy of Beavis, ABC News adds:

Neighbors identify London Bridge attack suspect as man featured in recent documentary

Neighbors have identified one of the London Bridge attack suspects as a man known by the nickname "ABZ" or "Abs" who was featured in a recent documentary on the British Channel 4 from 2016 called "The Jihadist Next Door."

Neighbors say he was the attacker who wore the fake suicide vest during the vehicle and stabbing attack that killed seven people in London on Saturday night.

He was a member of Al Muhajiroun, a small group of men led by Anjem Choudary and Siddartha Dhar who openly preached for the need for Sharia law.

The group was closely monitored by authorities.

According to Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens, research director of George Washington University's Program on Extremism, Choudary's network of extremist followers has numbered in the hundreds, and many have been charged with terrorism offenses in the U.K. or fought and died in Syria with ISIS.

"So the potential for more of them to mobilize is still there," said Meleagrou-Hitchens, who has interviewed several members of the group. "Almost all would be known to authorities though ... There are hundreds of members but only small fraction will act. Knowing which ones will is hard and not an exact science."

Another British expert said Al-Muhajiroun has proven time and again that many of those involved with it are truly "dangerous individuals," justifying the British government's 2010 ban on Choudary's group.

"Thwarting plots relies on an element of luck," said Robin Simcox, a terrorism expert at the Heritage Foundation. "And with 23,000 suspects on the radar, the British Security Services simply don't have the capacity to track everyone that is a potential terror threat."

What else was known as of midnight, and a place to add updates as the day progresses. Yesterday's report is here. Previous reports are linked there.
From the BBC:

Two of the attackers named by police as Khuram Shazad Butt and Rachid Redouane

Butt was known to police and MI5 but there was no intelligence to suggest an attack, Scotland Yard says

Police searched an address in Newham and another in Barking, east London - 12 people were arrested, all are released without charge

NHS England says 36 injured remain in hospital, 18 are still in a critical condition

General election campaigning has resumed with PM Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn focusing on security

Pakistan-born Khuram Butt, 27, from Barking, east London, who was known to police, had previously worked for London Underground, Transport for London said.

The other was Rachid Redouane, 30, from Barking, who police said claimed to be Moroccan-Libyan. Redouane, who was a chef, also used the name Rachid Elkhdar and a different birth date. He was not known to police.

He had also lived for a time in Dublin, Ireland's RTE reports.

Redouane married a British woman in Ireland in 2011 before moving back to the UK, it added. They both returned to Ireland in 2016 for a short time before separating.

Documentation, believed to be an identity card, was found after he was shot dead, the broadcaster says.

Barriers are being built on a number of bridges in London following Saturday's attack. They have been described by the Metropolitan Police as "increased security measures".

Westminster Bridge, where a man ploughed a car into pedestrians in March, was the the first to have them installed, the Met said.

The Telegraph liveblog has photos of ringleader Mr. Butt and Mr. Redouane, pastry chef.

Sky News reports that police found Molotov cocktails in the back of the hired van used in the London Bridge attack. At least a dozen bottles filled with clear liquid, which had rags stuffed in their tops, were found in the back of the hired van, and police had treated them as though they were petrol bombs, Sky News said citing unnamed sources.

The third dead attacker is not a UK citizen.

Barriers have been installed on three central London bridges following the latest terror attack to hit the capital. The structures have been introduced to stop traffic from mounting the pavement on Westminster, Lambeth and Waterloo bridges.

Jeremy Corbyn said Isil supporters should not be prosecuted for 'expressing a political point of view'

The killers' final movements: London Bridge terrorist sent a WhatsApp message after posting lines from the Quran, before his accomplice made last visit to his estranged British wife and baby

[DailyMail] Many more photos at the link.

Rachid Redouane went to the mother of his 18-month-old girl's flat in Barking to kiss his daughter goodbye

Three hours later, Moroccan-born murderer was one of three who killed seven people in the capital's streets

Redouane, who also claimed to be Libyan, tried to stop her daughter watching TV in case it turned her gay

Khuram Butts' WhatsApp profile reads 'Allah says (Quran 94:6) - Indeed, with hardship, comes ease'

He was known to both police and MI5, but because he wasn't 'planning attack', he wasn't deemed a priority

The police and MI5 are awaiting international confirmation before naming the third terrorist.

Update at noon EDT. We now have photos and information about all three miscreants, two of whom were known wolves.

Another one we missed? Italians say they tipped off UK about third London Bridge attacker who 'told police "I'm going to be a terrorist" as he was arrested in Bologna trying to travel to Syria'

Third London Bridge attacker is named in Italy as Youssef Zaghba, a Moroccan-Italian who is 22 years old

Italian newspaper says he was stopped at Bologna airport 'trying to travel to Syria' just last year

Security source claims British and Moroccan authorities were warned by Italy about his movements

Scotland Yard insist he wasn't 'a police or MI5 subject of interest' as questions grow over attackers

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US adds five militants to its list of global terrorists

2017-04-02