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Radical July 7 preacher arrested in undercover sting trying to recruit jihadis

2017-08-27

[Telegraph] A radical Moslem holy man who influenced one of the July 7 London bombers has been incarcerated Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! after officers in the US caught him allegedly trying to recruit jihadis in an undercover sting operation. Abdullah el-Faisal, who was deported to Jamaica from Britannia in 2007 after serving a sentence for soliciting murder and causing racial hatred, is now facing extradition to New York. According to the Manhattan district attorney, el-Faisal offered to help an undercover officer travel to the Middle East and join Isil. El-Faisal, who was arrested on Friday in Jamaica, was a mentor of Jermaine Lindsay, who detonated a bomb on a Tube train near King's Cross, killing 25 passengers. He was arrested after a month long sting carried out by an undercover New York Police Department officer who communicated with him by email, text and video chat. According to the Manhattan district attorney, el-Faisal offered to help an undercover officer travel to the Middle East and join Isil. El-Faisal, 53, was sentenced to seven years after becoming the first person for a century to be prosecuted under the 1860 Public Order Act. Lindsay, also from Jamaica and also a convert to Islam, attended at least one lecture by El-Faisal and listened to tapes of his sermons. During the preacher's trial, he was heard telling audiences to kill Hindus, Jews and other non-Moslems like "cockroaches". El-Faisal arrived in the UK in 1992 and married a British biology graduate, establishing himself as a lay preacher at Brixton Mosque, often preaching to crowds of up to 500 people. His preaching came to the attentions of police when tapes of his sermons were found in the car of a suspected rapist in Dorset in late 2001. During subsequent searches of specialist Islamic bookshops and El-Faisal's rented house in Stratford, East London, police found other recordings in which he exhorted young Moslems to accept the deaths of women and kiddies as "collateral damage" and to "learn to fly planes, drive tanks... load your guns and to use missiles". He told young British Moslems it was their duty to kill non-believers, Jews, Hindus and Westerners, urging them to adopt a "jihad mentality". He also promised schoolboys that they would be rewarded with "72 virgins in paradise" if they died in a holy war. The jury watched a video of El-Faisal after the Sept 11 attacks telling up to 150 young Moslems that the Koran justified attacking "kaffirs", or unbelievers.

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White Widow Samantha Lewthwaite weds terror chief Hassan Maalim Ibrahim

2014-05-28

[Shabelle] Terrorist suspect Samantha Lewthwaite -- dubbed The White Widow -- has married a ruthless terror chief while on the run in lawless Somalia. Intelligence sources claim the British runaway, who was married to Huddersfield jacket wallah Jermaine Lindsay, tied the knot with suspected warlord Hassan Maalim Ibrahim, also known as Sheikh Hassan. He is a senior commander in radical terror group al-Shabaab

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Bombs Rock Kenya As More Brits Flee: 13 Killed Hours After Foreign Office Terror Alert

2014-05-18

[DailyMail] Photos, videos, and a cute little map at the link. o At least 13 people are feared to have died in twin kabooms in Nairobi o Reports suggest around 70 people were maimed in the blasts o UK and US authorities recently imposed warnings on travel to Kenya o Kenya's National Disaster Operations Centre (NDOC) confirmed on Twitter that the first kaboom came from a 14-seater matatu (minibus), and the second came from within Gikomba Market o Reports suggest that one suspect has been incarcerated Please don't kill me! Hundreds of British tourists were evacuated from Kenya last night as the capital Nairobi was rocked by bombings. Holidaymakers had their trips cut short after the Foreign Office warned against travelling to beach resorts along the coast. Travel firms chartered planes to bring people home early from Nairobi, the Indian Ocean resort of Mombasa and other parts of the country. Yesterday, as anxious travellers arrived at Kenyan airports to check in for their flights to Britannia, two bombs went off in Nairobi, leaving at least 13 dead and 70 injured. The kabooms follow a recent spate of terror attacks by the Islamist Al-Shabaab ... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... group, including an kaboom at a bus station that killed three and the discovery of a bomb at a hotel. These prompted the Foreign Office to alter its travel advice for Kenya, warning against all but essential travel to areas within 37 miles of the Kenya-Somali border and Nairobi. It added: 'There has been a spate of small-scale grenade, bomb and armed attacks in Nairobi, Mombasa, and North Eastern Province.' The US, La Belle France and Australia have also issued alerts. Most travel insurance policies are invalid in areas the Foreign Office rules are unsafe, so tour operators have cancelled Kenyan holidays. However, a woman is only as old as she admits... some tourists claimed the tour companies had overreacted to the Islamist terror threats, which are understood to include plans to bomb beach hotels and kidnap Western tourists. More than 500 British tourists are expected to have been evacuated from the region by tomorrow night, with those expecting to visit Kenya in the next six months facing the cancellation of their holidays. The unusual move follows intelligence warnings to the British Government of a high threat of attack in Mombasa and Nairobi by Al-Shabaab, which is based in Somalia and is linked to Al Qaeda and the Nigerian group Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... The group includes British fighters such as Samantha Lewthwaite, the so-called White Widow' of 7/7 jacket wallah Jermaine Lindsay. Al-Shabaab was behind the attack on Nairobi's Westgate shopping mall in September, when 67 people were killed after its fighters took it over. Some 5,000 Britons are on holiday in Kenya, with an estimated 500 in the Mombasa area subject to the warning. ******************************************************************************* CONCERNS HIGH IN KENYA OVER AL-QAEDA-LINKED GROUP AL-SHABAB Islamic bully boy group Al-Shabaab, which means 'The Youth' in Arabic, was formed in 2006 as a radical offshoot of the Islamic justice system. It is thought to have between 9,000 and 15,000 members and in 2012, it joined the bully boy Islamist organization al-Qaeda as a cell. The group wants to overthrow the UN-backed government in Somalia, and is suspected of links to a string of attacks in neighbouring Kenya. It has been pushed out of most of the main towns it once controlled, but it remains a potent threat. As of 2013, pressure from African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Mission In Somalia (AMISOM) and Æthiopian forces has largely degraded Al-Shabaab's control and conflict among big shots has exacerbated fractures within the group. Following the death of British Army soldier Drummer Lee Rigby in May 2013, it emerged one of his murderers had travelled to Kenya to train with Al-Shabaab. Michael Adebolajo, 29, was arrested in Kenya in 2010 with five others. At the time, the head of Kenya's anti-terrorism unit said he believed Adebolajo was planning to train with Al-Shabaab, yet he was released to British authorities in Kenya and deported. Adebolajo and accomplice Michael Adebowale, 22, were convicted in December last year of murdering Fusilier Lee Rigby outside his barracks in Woolwich. The British Moslem converts ran him over in a car, almost decapitated him and then dragged him into the middle of the road while ordering onlookers to film them. Adebolajo was given a whole-life term and Adebowale was incarcerated ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... for a minimum of 45 years.

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Wanted Briton linked to attack

2013-09-24

[Daily Nation (Kenya)] So maybe Wednesday it will be Jannah, (Islamic paradise) I look around at how beautiful Jihad is, It's alive in Kenya, It's alive in me, And I'm breathing Jihad, It's my time." This is an excerpt from a poem written by Samantha Lewthwaite, the most wanted woman in the world. She is sought by security agencies in Kenya, South Africa, Britannia and the US. She has long been believed to be hiding in Kenya and posted the poem on Twitter in September last year. The 29-year-old mother of three reveals her ruthless intention: "I'd rather be receiving my martyrdom, think I'll get ready... and buy a vest." As gunnies stormed the Westgate mall in Nairobi at about mid-day on Saturday, unleashing indiscriminate violence on defenceless men, women and kiddies, some witnesses recalled spotting a veiled woman in the group. They said she appeared to be commanding the others to shoot non-Moslems. Lewthwaite, nicknamed "The White Widow" by Western media, was once married to Jermaine Lindsay, the bomber who went kaboom! in a train at London's King's Cross on July 7, 2005, killing 26 other people. Lewthwaite denounced his actions and soon disappeared with the children. Her name only came to light again when she was linked with an investigation by Kenyan police into an Al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... terror cell planning attacks on Western targets in Mombasa early last year. Their suspicions were raised when in November 2012, Briton Jermaine Grant was charged in a Mombasa court with being an Al-Shabaab terrorist. Police said a woman escaped during his arrest. Grant's home was described as a "bomb factory" by the prosecution after chemicals similar to those used in the July 7, 2005 London blast were found. Lewthwaite's name has cropped up in other investigations and she was recently linked to British terror suspect Habib Ghani aka Osama al Britani, who was killed recently in Somalia after falling out with Al-Shabaab. She remains the main suspect in a grenade attack at Jericho Beer Garden in Mombasa where three people died and over 30 were maimed. Al-Shabaab spokesperson Mohammad Usman Arus, though, denied on BBC radio that any Briton, American or woman had taken part in the attack, saying: "We do not send our sisters out on missions." The Sunday Mirror reported in September last year that detectives in South Africa were leading the hunt for Lewthwaite, whose South African passport bears the name Natalie Faye Webb. They were investigating claims she was hiding in central Kenya. Chief of General Staff Julius Karangi on Monday said the army had "an idea who these people are but due to the sensitivity of the operation we will not divulge."

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Swiss man charged with Somali Shebab links

2012-06-07

(Sh.M.Network)-- A Kenyan court on Wednesday charged a Swiss man with being a member of Somalia's Al-Qaeda allied Shebab, the latest in a string of foreign nationals accused of links to the Islamist thugs. Magd Najjar, who was initially reported to be Swedish when he was cooled for a few years Book 'im, Mahmoud! last month, was charged in a court in the Kenyan capital Nairobi of "engaging in organised criminal activities by being a member of Al Shebab." Najjar was also charged with being in Kenya illegally. Najjar, who is believed to be in his late 20s, did not speak when he appeared in a crowded court room for the brief hearing. He did not issue a plea. Bail was refused and the trial will begin on July 2, said Najjar's lawyer Edna Khaemba. Several foreign nationals are wanted by Kenyan police accused of planning kabooms or of being connected to the Shebab, including citizens from Britannia, Germany and Turkey. Briton Jermaine Grant is on trial in Kenya after he was found with various chemicals, batteries and switches which prosecutors say they planned to use to make explosives. Prosecutors say that he was working with fellow Briton Samantha Lewthwaite, who is on the run over terror plot allegations, and is the widow of Jermaine Lindsay, who attacked the London Underground in 2005. Since Kenya sent forces into southern Somalia in October to fight the Shebab it has been hit by retaliatory attacks. The warnings of possible attacks on Kenyan targets have increased in recent weeks, according to Western security analysts and monitoring groups.

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July 7 bomber's widow 'on the run' over links with terrorist cell

2012-02-29

Police in Kenya have issued an arrest warrant for a woman using the name Natalie Faye Webb, and carrying a forged in Pakistain South African passport. Helped by officers from Scotland Yard who flew out to offer advice, they have published her picture to alert the public. But investigators say the woman has three separate identities and one is that of Samantha Lewthwaite, who was married to Jermaine Lindsay, one of the 7/7 bombers. Lindsay killed 26 people when he blew himself up on the Piccadilly Line between King's Cross and Russell Square in July 2005. Lewthwaite, from Aylesbury, Bucks, who converted to Islam at the age of 15 and married Lindsay in 2002, is said to be travelling with her three children.

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7/7 inquests: MI5 officer to give evidence

2011-02-21

A senior member of MI5 will give evidence later at the inquests into the deaths of 52 people killed in the 7/7 terrorist bombings in London in 2005. The officer, who will be referred to as Witness G, will be asked whether the attacks could have been prevented. The bereaved families in court will be able to see him but reporters in a nearby annexe will only hear his voice. Four suicide bombers detonated their devices on three Tube trains and a double decker bus on 7 July 2005. Witness G will be asked about a key moment months before the bombings when the security service came across two of the terrorists during an investigation into another plot. Many of the relatives of those who died want to know why those under surveillance were not subjected to detailed scrutiny. MI5 has always maintained it did not uncover any intelligence that would have identified the pair as potential suicide bombers. BBC correspondent Peter Hunt says it will be a significant day as the senior MI5 officer will sit in the witness box and be questioned in public. Lest we forget who the real terrorist criminals are: The attacks were carried out by suicide bombers Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30, Shehzad Tanweer, 22, Hasib Hussain, 18, and Jermaine Lindsay, 19. They targeted Tube trains at Aldgate, Edgware Road and Russell Square and a bus in Tavistock Square.

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London bombers instructed by phone from Pakistan: inquest

2011-02-03

[Dawn] The ringleader of the July 7, 2005 suicide kabooms on London's transport system received advice from a mystery figure in Pakistain just days before the attacks, an inquest heard Wednesday. I repeat myself: Pakistain currently holds the same position as al-Qaeda HQ that Afghanistan held in 2001. Mobile phone records showed a series of calls made from phone boxes of Rawalpindi to bomber Mohammad Sidique Khan, a police officer told hearings in London into the deaths of 52 people. Metropolitan Police detective Mark Stuart said many of the calls were made through different Pak phone boxes within minutes of each other, suggesting that the caller there wanted to conceal their identity. Hugo Keith, counsel to the inquests, asked Stuart: "Did you assess that those calls therefore were probably connected to some guidance or some means of communicating information concerned with the manufacture of the bombs and then ultimately their detonation?" "Yes, I think they had to be," replied Stuart. The inquest heard that Khan never made any calls to Pakistain himself, but that he had instead given contacts in that country the numbers of four phones used purely for the purpose of the attacks. Most of Khan's conversations with the unknown person in Pakistain took place between May and June 2005 but one lasting six minutes happened five days before the bombings, the inquest heard. The final, unanswered call to the phone was made on the afternoon of July 7 after Khan, 30, Shehzad Tanweer, 22, Hasib Hussain, 18, and Jermaine Lindsay, 19, had blown themselves up on three subway trains and a bus. Khan and Tanweer are both known to have travelled to Pakistain in the months before the attack where they are believed to have had contact with members of Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network. A video statement by Khan is believed to have been filmed there. Britain's domestic security service MI5 has admitted it monitored Khan on several occasions before the attacks, including meeting members of a separate bomb plot, but that it failed to follow up the lead. Britain opened the long-awaited inquests into the deaths of the victims in October and the hearings are expected to last until March. They will examine whether the intelligence services could have prevented the attacks.

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I'm a victim too says the widow of 7/7 bomber, in legal aid claim that could delay inquest

2010-08-26

The widow of a July 7 suicide bomber yesterday launched a High Court bid to be represented at the victims’ inquest - saying she had also suffered the loss of a loved one in the atrocity. Hasina Patel, whose husband was terrorist mastermind Mohammad Sidique Khan, is seeking legal aid to challenge the coroner’s decision to exclude Khan’s death from the hearing for the 52 victims of the 2005 London bombings. If the mother of one’s application is granted, October’s long-awaited inquest could be delayed by months of legal wrangling, to the distress of those who have waited more than five years for it to take place. Lawyers for Miss Patel claim there should be ‘no material distinction’ between her and the families of those killed, because she ‘equally suffered the loss of a relative’. But the move will anger bereaved families, who do not want the deaths of the terrorists included in the same inquest as the 52 innocents whose lives they took. Miss Patel hopes to overturn the decision made by Lady Justice Hallett in May to hold a separate hearing into the deaths of the four bombers - Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30, Shehzad Tanweer, 22, Hasib Hussain, 18, and Jermaine Lindsay, 19. The Government has already agreed to give legal aid to the families of the 52 victims. But Miss Patel’s request for equal funding was refused in May this year.

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Islamist books still available in British public libraries

2010-03-29

Works by the jailed preacher Abdullah al-Faisal and the controversial Islamic leader Bilal Philips are available to borrow from the controversial Tower Hamlets council in East London. The council leader Lutfur Rahman, has been accused of gaining power through his links with an organisation called the Islamic Forum of Europe, based at East London mosque, that secretly campaigns for an Islamic social and political order. The Prime Minister announced in 2007 that the Government would consult with the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) after extremist literature was found on lending lists across the country, but particularly in Tower Hamlets. However a recent visit by the Daily Telegraph revealed that many of the books are still on the shelves. The council said in a statement that it was committed to tackling extremism but added: "As far as we are aware these materials have not yet been banned or judged to be illegal in the UK. If this were the case they would not have been on our shelves." In one of the books, Natural Instincts, Faisal, writes: "The societies of Europe and America are the new Sodom and Gomorra of today. The kafirs [non-believers] are the henchmen of the devil...The only language the kafirs respect is jihad [holy war]." Faisal says Christian clergymen who practice celibacy are prone to paedophilia: "Priests, monks, popes and nuns who abstain from sex...will inevitably be led to child abuse." He adds that non-Muslim charity workers will go to hell: "The Red Cross or any other infidelic organisation should not expect to receive any reward from Allah in the hereafter for their so-called humanitarian works. The infidels who die in their disbelief will be in the hellfire forever." In another chapter, the book says: "Of all the people in the world, the Jews are the greediest...Everyone of them wishes that he could be given a life of 1,000 years. But the grant of such life will not save him even a little from due punishment." A copy of The Fundamentals of Tawheed by Philips, another Jamaican-born convert to Islam, was obtained on a library card. The book says "un-Islamic government must be sincerely hated and despised". Faisal, who was admired by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the failed Detroit bomber, was deported from Kenya earlier this year, after a spell spent in South Africa. He taught Jermaine Lindsay, one of the July 7 bombers, the July 21 bombers had collections of his sermons and he is said to have taught Dhiren Barot, an al-Qaeda terrorist who planned to blow up targets in the US and Britain with gas-filled limousines. Faisal, whose real name is William Forrest, 45, was born to a Christian family in Jamaica but moved to Saudi Arabia to study Islam before arriving in Tower Hamlets, east London in 1992, where he married a British woman and set up a study centre, later moving on to Brixton mosque in South London. He was jailed in Britain for seven years in 2003, for incitement to murder and stirring up racial hatred but released in 2007 and deported to his native Jamaica. Police found tapes in specialist Islamic book shops in the East End in which he called for the murder of Hindus, Jews and Americans, telling young Muslims it was their duty to kill non-believers and promising schoolboys they would be rewarded with 72 virgins in paradise if they died in a holy war.

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UK court clears three of plotting London bombs

2009-04-29

[Al Arabiya Latest] Three Britons were cleared on Tuesday of helping to plot the deadly London suicide bombings in July 2005 in the first prosecution over the attacks which killed 52 people and left more than 700 injured. Waheed Ali, 25, Mohammed Shakil, 32, and 28-year-old Sadeer Salem were accused of having carried out a two-day reconnaissance mission by visiting various tourist sites in London in the months leading up the attacks on three underground trains and a bus. A jury last year failed to reach a verdict against the men, who were found not guilty of conspiracy to cause explosions at Tuesday's retrial at London's Kingston Crown Court, the Press Association reported. Prosecutors had said the three men were friends of the bombers, Mohammed Sidique Khan, Shehzad Tanweer, Jermaine Lindsay and Hasib Hussain. The men attended the same mosque and gym in the tightly-knit town of Beeston, in northern England, prosecutors said. Although they were not directly involved in making the bombs or carrying out the attacks, detectives believed the men had helped plan the attacks. Ali and Shakil were convicted of a second charge of conspiracy to attend a place used for terrorist training. Prosecutors said they were planning to go to a camp in Pakistan when police arrested them in March 2007. The court heard that the investigation into the bombings -- the largest ever carried out by London police -- discovered links between the men in mobile phone records, fingerprints connecting them to the bomb-factory in Beeston, family videos and surveillance. Detectives found that about seven months before the bombings, Shakil, Saleem and Ali spent two days in London with Hussain and Lindsay, visiting tourist attractions such as the London Eye, the Natural History Museum and the London Aquarium. They also visited locations similar to ones attacked on July 7 and detectives said the trip, the key element of the prosecution case, was part of preparations for attacks on the capital. But the defendants argued the trip was to allow Ali to visit his sister and take in some tourist attractions. The court also heard how in Nov. 2004, Khan, the ringleader of the July plot, recorded a farewell video for his baby daughter in 2004 before heading off on a mission to Afghanistan where he expected to die, prosecutors said. Police have always maintained that the bombers had assistance from other people with links to al-Qaeda as they would not have had the technical expertise to construct the hydrogen peroxide-based bombs themselves.

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Three men who 'helped July 7 bombers' on trial

2009-01-20

Three men went on trial on Monday accused of helping bombers prepare the deadly July 7, 2005 suicide bombings with a reconnaissance mission in London. Prosecutors say Waheed Ali (25), Sadeer Saleem (28) and Muhammad Shakil 32, spent two days in the city where they visited tourist attractions including the Natural History Museum, the London Eye and the London Aquarium. Kingston Crown Court was told the trip was 'an important first step' in the plot to detonate bombs in Britain, the Press Association reported. The trio, from Beeston, Leeds, deny one charge of conspiring with Sidique Khan, Shezhad Tanweer, Jermaine Lindsay and Hasib Hussain to cause explosions. The four young terrorists killed 52 people and injured hundreds more when they set off bombs on three underground trains and a bus. Ali and Shakil also deny a second charge of conspiracy to attend a place used for terrorist training. It is alleged they were planning a trip to Pakistan to attend a training camp when they were arrested in March 2007.Prosecutor Neil Flewitt told a jury hearing at a retrial of the men, that they were not accused of making or transporting the bombs used in the July-7 attacks. "However, it is the prosecution case that the defendants associated with and shared the beliefs and objectives of the London bombers and so were willing to assist them in one particular and important aspect of their preparation for the London bombings," he said. He said on December 16, 2004, the defendants travelled from Leeds with one of the bombers, Hussain, to London where over a period of two days they conducted a reconnaissance of potential targets. Once there, they also met Lindsay. "It is not the prosecution case that, at the time of the trip to London, the conspirators had made a final decision about the method of attack, the targets to be attacked or even the date of the attack," Flewitt said. "However, it is the prosecution case that the London visit was an important first step in what was, by then, a settled plan to cause explosions in the UK." He told the jury that the three defendants admitted making the trip, but for family and tourism reasons. "Moreover, although the defendants all accept that they knew the London bombers, it is their case that their friendship was innocent and that they knew nothing of, and took no part in, their plan to cause explosions in the UK," Flewitt said. Ali and Shakil also did not dispute that they were intending to travel to Pakistan in 2007 but denied it was related to terrorism, he said.

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