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IDF kills Hamas’s Shejaiya Battalion chief, a week after eliminating his predecessor
2025-04-16
[IsraelTimes] Military also announces killing of commander who participated in October 7 attack and hostage release ceremony; airstrike reportedly hits Kuwaiti Field Hospital, killing one

An Israeli Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
 in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
 City on Sunday killed the latest commander of Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
’s Shejaiya Battalion, Muhammad al-Ajlah — the fifth leader of the battalion to be killed by the Israel Defense Forces in the ongoing war against the terror group.

The IDF announced Ajlah’s killing on Tuesday, after earlier announcing the killing of another Hamas commander who had participated in the group’s October 7, 2023, attack as well as in a propaganda ceremony surrounding the release of three Israeli hostages.

The Shejaiya Battalion commander, Ajlah, had replaced his predecessor Haitham Khalil less than a week ago, after the latter was killed in an Israeli airstrike on April 9.

Khalil’s direct predecessor, Jamil Omar Jamil Wadiya, was killed in March. Wadiya had taken over the battalion after his two predecessors were killed in December 2023.
It’s a very dynamic unit — lots of opportunities for advancement for the ambitious young jihadi.
Before taking the helm of the battalion, Ajlah headed its combat support company, where he was responsible for "arming the battalion’s bully boyz with weapons used to carry out terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF troops," the IDF said in a statement. The military said it took steps to mitigate civilian harm in the strike.

The IDF also announced early Tuesday that an airstrike conducted some two weeks ago killed a Hamas terrorist who invaded Israel during the October 7 onslaught. Hamza Wael Muhammad Asafah was the commander of a cell in the Nukhba force in Hamas’s Deir al-Balah Battalion, according to the military. The IDF said that Asafah also participated in the "cynical" release ceremony for hostages Eli Sharabi, Ohad Ben Ami and Or Levy in February. In announcing the strike that killed Asafah, the IDF again said that it took steps to mitigate civilian harm.

Also Tuesday, an Israeli airstrike hit the northern gate of the Kuwaiti Field Hospital in Gaza, killing a medic and wounding nine people, according to Saber Mohamad, a front man for the hospital. The hospital is located in the Mawasi area, where hundreds of thousands of people have sought shelter in sprawling tent camps.

There was no immediate comment from the IDF.

Hospitals have become sites of fighting on numerous occasions throughout the 18-month war between Israel and Hamas, with terror operatives hiding in them or using them for military purposes, including holding and transferring hostages. The IDF has allowed mass evacuations of civilians prior to major raids on hospital sites.

On Sunday, an Israeli strike hit the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City. The IDF said the attack targeted a Hamas command center housed inside the hospital used by bully boyz to plan and carry out terror attacks. The al-Ahli Arab Hospital has been the last hospital providing critical care in northern Gaza, which has been subject to broad evacuation orders for almost the entire war as Israeli forces operated against Hamas there.

A front man for United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
 Secretary-General António Guterres
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
 said Tuesday that he was "deeply alarmed" by the strike on al-Ahli, saying the attack dealt "a severe blow to an already devastated healthcare system in the Strip" and adding there was strong concern that medical supplies were running low as well as food and water. The front man also noted that hospitals have protection under international law. Though humanitarian law grants hospitals protected status, much of that protection is lost when the facilities are used for active military purposes.

IDF, Shin Bet say Hamas commander who took part in 2014 Nahal Oz infiltration killed
[IsraelTimes] The IDF and Shin Bet announce that a senior Hamas commander who took part in a 2014 infiltration into Israel that killed five soldiers, was killed in a strike in Gaza City a few days ago.

Mahmoud Ibrahim Hassan Abu Hisirah had served as the right hand of the commander of Hamas’s Gaza Brigade, Izz ad-Din Haddad, according to the military, including during the war and during the preparation for the October 7, 2023, onslaught.

On July 28, 2014, during the IDF’s Operation Protective Edge, Abu Hisirah, as a member of Hamas’s Nukhba force, infiltrated Israel with other terrorists via a tunnel from Gaza, and attacked an army post near Nahal Oz, killing five soldiers.

The attack killed Sgt. Daniel Kedmi, Sgt. Barkai Ishai Shor, Sgt. Erez Sagi, Sgt. Dor Deri, and Sgt. Nadav Raymond.

3-year-old spaniel abducted on Oct. 7 found in Gaza, to be returned to family
[IsraelTimes] A dog abducted from Kibbutz Nir Oz during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack was found in southern Gaza in recent days by Israeli ground forces. Billy belongs to Rachel Dancyg, the divorcee of Alex Dancyg who was taken hostage and murdered in captivity. The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel is three and a half years old.

Forces who encountered Billy in Rafah brought her back to Israel with them, where she was identified thanks to her microchip implant.
Related:
Shejaiya Battalion: 2025-04-12 More deaths and injuries as Israeli artillery, aircraft pound Gaza in predawn attacks
Shejaiya Battalion: 2025-04-11 IDF says 12 Oct. 7 terrorists killed in recent strikes, including Shejaiya Battalion chief
Shejaiya Battalion: 2025-03-24 Israel shells Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, killed one - Hamas big turban - as IDF widens offensive
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Africa Horn
Somalia: Military parades captured Al-Shabaab militants
2023-08-25
[Garowe] The Somali National Army [SNA] has paraded captured al-Shabaab
...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa...
 bully boys, even as the country continues to ask members of the terror group to surrender to the army, amid an ongoing crackdown against the al-Qaeda-linked group, which the country plans to eliminate completely by next year.

According to the state media, the military paraded the turbans to showcase milestones made in the fight against the group which still controls large swathes of rural central and southern Somalia. The group has been in operation for the last two decades, necessitating military operations.

Those paraded were Abdirahman Fodey Kulmiye, Abdullahi Ibrahim Hassan, and Adan Ibrahim Abshi, with the military accusing them of terrorizing innocent civilians and security officers within Owswayn town which was recently seized from the turbans during the operation.

"The Somali National Army which recently seized control of the Owswayn, has presented the capture of al-Shabaab leaders to the public. Abdirahman Fodey Kulmiye, Abdullahi Ibrahim Hassan, and Adan Ibrahim Abshir have been accused of terrorizing the local population for an extended period," state media confirmed.
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Africa Horn
Somali forces kill Al-Shabab militants
2022-08-01
[ShabelleMedia] The Somali National Army (SNA) and forces from the southwestern region on Saturday killed three al-Shabaab
...... Somalia's version of the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
 forces of Evil in a joint offensive in the region, a local official said.

A military official who led the security operation near Tosweyne village in Bardale district told the Somali News Agency that several gunnies who have been terrorizing the locals escaped with serious injuries.

"The forces of Evil have harassed and displaced several people in the villages. This operation was meant to flush them out of Bardale district," Aidarus Abdullahi Sheikh, a commander who led the operation, told the news agency.

The latest operation came a day after two people including a state minister were killed and several others maimed in a blast in Baidoa, in southwestern Somalia. South-West State Minister of Justice Hassan Ibrahim Hassan (Lugbur) and his son were killed by an bomb near his home after leaving the mosque in Baidoa Friday.

Al-Shabaab still controls some parts of rural southern and central Somalia and continues to carry out high-profile attacks in Mogadishu and elsewhere. Allied forces have intensified military operations in territory formerly controlled by the krazed killer group. al-Shabaab was driven out of Mogadishu in 2011.
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Iraq
Civilian killed in Turkey-PKK conflict in Duhok
2021-08-14
[Rudaw] A Kurdish villager was killed during festivities between The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
 and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in northern Duhok province, a local official confirmed on Friday.

Ibrahim Hassan, 50, was killed in the fight between Turkey and the PKK, Kani Masi district director of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), Hashim Trwanshi, told Rudaw’s Nasir Ali.

Hassan was on his way to water his orchard when he was killed, the official added.

A local resident said the area had been bombed around 10:30 Friday morning.

Mayor of Kani Masi, Sarbast Sabri, said Hassan’s body will be taken to Zakho for forensic examination and he will be later buried in his village.

The PKK is an armed Kurdish group fighting for the increased rights of Kurds in Turkey. Ankara considers it a terrorist organization. For decades, Ottoman Turkish forces have pursued the PKK within the Kurdistan Region’s borders.

Turkey has launched a series of operations against the PKK in recent years, with the most recent beginning in April. Duhok’s Metina area, on the Ottoman Turkish border, is the focus of Operation Claw-Thunderbolt, and Operation Claw-Lightning targets the Avashin and Basyan areas further east.

This year, six civilians have been killed, several injured, and 20 villages emptied.

A parliamentary report last year concluded that at least 504 villages have been emptied across the Kurdistan Region since 1992 and hundreds of people have been killed. In Duhok alone, 366 villages have been abandoned since 1998.

Duhok’s environment has been severely damaged, thousands of acres of land have been scorched, and people’s houses and livestock have been hit.

According to figures compiled by the International Crisis Group, which tracks the PKK-Turkey conflict, in the first six months of 2021, there have been 144 fatalities. The dead are 33 Ottoman Turkish soldiers, 103 PKK fighters, and eight civilians. The majority of the casualties this year have occurred in the Kurdistan Region.

Since the decades-long conflict was reignited in 2015 following the collapse of peace efforts, at least 5,464 people have been killed, including 549 civilians.

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has repeatedly called on Turkey to respect its illusory sovereignty and for the PKK to leave the area.

Turkish soldier killed in Kurdistan Region

[Rudaw] A Ottoman Turkish soldier was killed in a mortar attack blamed on the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Kurdistan Region’s Metina area, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
’s Ministry of National Defence said late Thursday.

The soldier was severely injured in the attack and later departed this vale of tears, it said in a tweet.

The ministry claimed three PKK fighters were "neutralized," a term Turkey’s army uses to refer to combatants killed or injured on the battlefield, and vowed "operations in the area will continue."

The PKK said in late July that they have carried out 398 attacks against the Ottoman Turkish army since the two operations began April, and have "punished" 494 Ottoman Turkish soldiers and injured 63 others.

The group also acknowledged 63 deaths in its own ranks during the latest operations.

The conflict is devastating local populations and the environment. Villagers have fled their homes, and bombs and Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s have sparked fires that are difficult to extinguish because of ongoing festivities and remote locations.

Ottoman Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said 18,292 "terrorists" have been neutralized since July 24, 2015.
Related:
Duhok: 2021-08-04 6 civilians killed, 20 villages emptied in Turkey-PKK war this year: MP
Duhok: 2021-07-25 Clashes between the Peshmerga and PKK in Duhok
Duhok: 2021-07-25 Drone attacks target the Global Coalition in Iraq
Related:
Kani Masi district: 2021-04-27 Turkish Army clashes in PKK fighters in Duhok
Kani Masi district: 2015-11-30 Turkey bombards Kurdistan region border villages
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Arabia
Saudi State Security: Three wanted in terror related activities killed in Qatif
2018-09-28
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
 state security stated that three wanted in terrorist related activities were killed in Qatif province on Wednesday, after festivities with the security forces.

The Spokesman for the kingdom’s State Security said that after a monitoring and surveillance operation, the three wanted in casese linked to terror were detected in a house located in the neighborhood of al-Qouikeb in the center of Qatif province.

The front man added that festivities erupted when the hard boyz found that they are surrounded by the security forces, refusing to surrender and opening fire which prompted the security forces to retaliate and killing .

The three are Saudi nationals Mohammed Hassa Ahmad al- Zayed, Moufeed Hamza Ali al-Alwan and Khalil Ibrahim Hassan al-Moslem.

Also, three security members were slightly injured, while none of the residents and passers-by in the neighborhood were harmed.

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Africa Horn
Somalia: Govt Releases List of Deadly Car Bomb Suspects
2017-11-17
[All Africa] The Somali government has released the names and the photos of the suspects behind last month's deadly truck bombing that killed more than 350 people and injured more than 400 others in Mogadishu.

Security Minister Mohammed Abukar Islow named seven suspects, including Husein Aden Madey, identified as the jacket wallah who drove the truck that blew up in the middle of busy intersection on October 14, and Mukhtar Mohamud Hassan aka (Gardhuub), who is accused of criminal masterminding the attack.

Other suspects include, Ali Yussuf Wa'eys, the would-be bomber of another boom-mobile foiled by Somali security forces the same day of the huge kaboom, his aide Hassan Adan Isack; and Abdiweli Ahmed Dirie, reputedly al-Shabaab
... the personification of Somali state failure...
's chief explosive expert in Mogadishu; and Abdullahi Abdi Warsame.

The minister said five of the six living suspects are in government custody and the owner of the truck used for the bombing is still being sought by police. He identified the owner as Abdullahi Ibrahim Hassan.

He said the suspects were tossed in the slammer
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
 following investigations and tips from local residents.

The deadliest blast in Somalia's history, has widely been blamed on al-Shabaab, but the Lion of Islam group has not grabbed credit.
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Home Front: WoT
Al-Qaeda bomb maker who targeted Chicago on Fed's radar
2017-03-25
[ABC7CHICAGO] reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,...
 was a target of the al Qaeda plot in 2010 when Sherlocks say master bomb maker Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri packed explosives in boxes of printer cartridges. al-Asiri shipped them on FedEx and UPS planes bound for Chicago.

U.S. counter-terror agents say al-Asiri, 34, is developing a new generation of non-metallic bombs that are small enough to be hidden in underwear or even implanted inside the human body.

"Asiri is an evil genius," said Rep. Peter T. King (R-N.Y.), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. "He is constantly expanding, he is constantly adjusting."

He is also ruthless, having dispatched his own brother to death by hiding a bomb on him before he crossed into Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
 to target the kingdom's chief counterterrorism official. He has tried to attack the United States three times in the past three years, building small, sophisticated and hard-to-detect devices in his workshop in the rugged terrain of southern Yemen.

Among the explosive design work attributed to al-Asiri is a device built into a laptop computer that detonated a year ago on a Somali passenger jet. The device blew a hole in the skin of the Daallo Airlines plane on but did not down the aircraft, because it detonated 20 minutes into the flight, before it reached cruising altitude. The suspected bomber was blown out of the plane, and his body was recovered on the ground near Mogadishu. The plane returned to the airport. Two people aboard were maimed.

Investigators suspect Abdullahi Abdisalam Borleh, a Somali national, carried the laptop computer with a bomb in it onto Daallo Airlines Flight 159, the source said. The bomber knew precisely where to sit and how to place the device to maximize damage. Given the placement, the blast likely would have set off a catastrophic secondary kaboom in the fuel tank if the aircraft had reached cruising altitude.
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Terror Networks
New undetectable explosive may be used in AQ's next round of 9-11 attacks (Debka)
2014-09-04


Our intelligence and counter terrorism sources disclose that the data on the two Al Qaeda groups' plans to mark the 9/11 anniversary with major attacks has been in the hands of Middle Eastern, European and US security agencies since the second week of May, i.e., five months ago.

They were also anxiously aware that Al Qaeda's top bomb-maker, Ibrahim Hassan A-Asiri, who works out of Yemen, had developed a secret explosive substance that can pass undetected through the screening devices and security measures currently in use at international airports and public places in the West and the Middle East.

Intelligence experts believe that this novel substance, when hidden in special shoes or electronic devices like iPhones and Samsung Galaxy phones, can beat even tight security scrutiny. However, information has also been received about the new undetectable explosive substance being implanted in the bodies of suicide jihadists, to produce the ultimate "body bombs."

It is feared that this hazard is already in place and that a surgical procedure may have been carried out to implant it on carriers of American or European passports, at a secret clinic in Yemen or a Gulf emirate by a surgeon dedicated to the radical Islamist cause. These human bombs will have been able to travel through Jordan or Iraq through Turkey to their targeted destinations. Such carriers of invisible bombs may be Americans, Belgians, Britons, Australians, French citizens or Germans, and already on standby for the prearranged signal to push a certain button and demolish a selected target.

The novel invention has made it infinitely easier for terrorists to move around and approach their targets, unnoticed and without arousing suspicion.

Prime Minister Cameron has woken up to the peril. He announced Tuesday, Sept. 22, he would ask parliament to urgently approve sweeping legislation to combat the "scourge of extremism" - including the power to seize passports of an estimated 500 British Muslims known to be frequent travelers to Turkey, Syria and Iraq and strongly suspected of identifying with Al Qaeda's jihadist ideology.
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Europe
Europe the target for master bombmaker
2014-07-05
h/t Gates of Vienna
Al-Qaeda's master bombmaker has trained European jihadists to become suicide bombers targeting their home countries, intelligence agencies have discovered.

Ibrahim Hassan Tali al-Asiri's alleged plans to develop "stealth" bombs triggered a worldwide airport security alert that is expected to spell misery for British holidaymakers and commuters flying to America.
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Terror Networks
Fears Terrorists Will Target Planes With Computer And Human Bombs
2014-07-04
[Telegraph] Terrorists are plotting to use new stealth bombs in laptops and even humans to bring down a US-bound passenger plane, it is feared.

Airport security was increased across the UK, US and other countries amid fears al-Qaeda bomb experts have successfully designed a new explosive that can bypass current checks.

They are believed to be targeting the thousands of Western jihadists fighting in Syria and Iraq as would-be jacket wallahs.

The threat, which originated from US intelligence, had an immediate impact at British airports where passengers were subjected to more stringent and rigorous security checks.

It raises the prospect of a summer of delays and chaos for holidaymakers with long queues at airports.

David Cameron
... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ...
, the Prime Minister, said the safety of passengers "must come first" while Nick Clegg, the Deputy PM, warned travellers the new checks would be a permanent feature.

Changes to security measures were announced after Washington homeland security secretary Jeh Johnson ordered beefed-up security at foreign airports which have direct flights to the US.

There are concerns that al-Qaeda snuffies in Yemen, known as al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), and specifically its master bomb maker Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, have linked up with the Jabhat Al-Nusra jihadists in Syria and passed on bomb making skills.

It is feared a new type of explosive has been developed that will not be picked up under normal checks.

It remains unclear whether that could be deployed in an electronic item such as a laptop, a liquid based explosive soaked on clothing or even surgically implanted in a bomber. All such techniques have been tried by Asiri in the past.

At Heathrow, passengers were being asked to turn on laptops, mobile phones and other electronics as they passed through security. Staff were also swabbing all electronic items, clothing and shoes to check for traces of explosives. Shoes and belts had to be removed and travellers were subject to "vigorous" physical searches, according to one passenger.

The threat centres on the thousands of Western jihadists, including hundreds of Britons, who are fighting in Syria and Iraq. It is feared they will be taught bomb-making skills by Asiri and AQAP and then sent back to target planes.

Asiri was the criminal mastermind behind an underwear bomb that failed to detonate aboard a jet over bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit
... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang...
 on Christmas Day 2009 and a more sophisticated version which was intercepted in a CIA sting operation three years later. He also designed the powerful bomb hidden in printer ink cartridges which was intercepted at a UK airport en route to the US in 2010, where it was timed to detonate over the east coast.

Downing Street said there was an "evolving threat" and people should continue to fly but allow "appropriate time" to go through security.
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Africa Horn
A delegation from Ahlu Suna Wal Jama'a arrives in Adado after 3 years.
2013-06-22
[Shabelle] a delegation from Ahlu Suna Wal Jama'a who control large parts of south and central Somalia arrived in Cadodo town after 3 years.

The town which is controlled by Ximan iyo Xeeb was a battled field 3 years ago between Ahlu Suna and the current administration.

The delegation from the religious leaders was led by Ibrahim Hassan Gurey.

They attended the inauguration ceremony of the newly elected Himan iyo Heb president which occurred in Adado the capital of the region.

Reconciliation efforts are underway in Mogadishu to unite all the administrations in central Somalia to form a federal state.
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Britain
The Web Of Extremism Surrounding Woolwich Terror Suspects
2013-05-28
The Hook-Handed Hate Cleric, A White Muslim Convert And The Man Arrested Over A Plot Against Parliament
Lots of photos and a colour-coded chart to help visualize the connections at the link.
o Michael Adebolajo, 28, and Michael Adebowale, 22, linked to many radicals
o Extremists Abu Hamza, Omar Bakri and Anjem Choudary are senior figures
o Ten men have apparent connections via various groups and mosques

A powerful web of Islamic bully boyz and terror convicts sits behind the two men believed to have executed Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich, it emerged today.

Michael Adebolajo, 28, and Michael Adebowale, 22, are both apparently linked to a wider network of men who are known to have either planned atrocities, preached violence or joined groups considered so extreme they are now banned.

These apparent connections have come to light since the British Mohammedans were tossed in the clink
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
 on suspicion of hacking Drummer Rigby to death in broad daylight after he was run down with a car last Wednesday.

Both men are said to know Usman Ali, an alleged bully boy and former member of the banned group Al-Muhajiroun, who also ran the Friday prayer group in Woolwich, where Adebolajo and Adebowale went.

He was also held for six days by Scotland Yard over alleged links to a conspiracy to blow up the Canadian Parliament.

Even extradited hate preacher Abu Hamza is connected to the pair via his own associates, who he is said have radicalised at the Fisbury Park Mosque in the 1990s.

Others in the circle include white convert Richard Dart, who last month was jugged
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
 for 11 years for plotting to attack British soldiers at Wootton Bassett. Dart was stopped as he tried to leave for Pakistain for terrorist training.

The contact Adebolajo, 28, and Adebowale, 22, had with these men and other may have inspired them to attempt to plot a terror attack.

At the top of the very top of this network is bully boy holy man Omar Bakri, who is banned from Britannia because of his activities, including his alleged links to Al Qaeda.

He met Michael Adebolajo on numerous occasions throughout 2004 and founded the now banned Islamist group Al-Muhajiroun, with which Adebolajo is believed to have been associated.

Now living in Leb, his leave to remain in Britannia was revoked after the 7/7 London attacks, which he said the British people brought on themselves.

His deputy Anjem Choudary knew both the terror suspects, who remain in hospital after being bumped off by police.

Choudary -- who helped form the now-banned Islamist groups Al-Muhajiroun and Al Ghurabaa - is accused of helping to radicalise several terrorists.

The 46-year-old described Adebolajo as a man of 'impeccable character' in interviews with BBC Newsnight and Channel 4 News last week.

Abu Izzadeen, who is also known as Trevor Brooks, was also an associate of Bakri and Choudary.

He was found guilty in 2008 of urging worshipers at a London mosque to join the mujahideen to fight British and American troops in Iran.

Abu Nusaybah, 31, whose real name is Ibrahim Hassan, was convicted along with Izzadeen five years ago, and was handed two years, nine months in jail.

He is also a close friend of Woolwich suspect Adebolajo and last week sensationally claimed that MI5 had tried to recruit his ally.

He was also a former prominent member of Al-Muhajiroun, the group banned in 2005 after radicalising a wave of British Mohammedans.

Adebolajo and Adebowale's links to Greenwich University's Islamic society are currently being probed by the Home Office, a group which heard from Dr Khalid Fikry, who has supported convicted terrorists.
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