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Britain
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.
Related:
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Anjem Choudary: 2022-07-24 Dangerous terrorists to be sent straight to new high-risk prison wings under new Government rules
Related:
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L-Muhajiroun: 2021-06-01 Fishmongers' Hall terrorist Usman Khan was shot at TWENTY TIMES and Tasered as armed police desperately tried to take him down before he finally died ten minutes later on London Bridge, inquest hears
L-Muhajiroun: 2021-04-13 Alleged ISIS Supporter Charged For Thwarted Attacks on Denmark and London
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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
...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.

Related:
Usman Khan: 2019-11-30 Day 2: London Bridge suspect had prior ‘Islamist terrorism’ conviction
Usman Khan: 2019-11-29 Breaking: London Bridge closed by British police amid reports of stabbing
Usman Khan: 2019-01-28 Jirga fixes Rs1m compensation for each of 36 lives lost in tribal hostility
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Daesh: 2019-11-23 Turkey detains Syrian ISIS member who organized attacks in Russia and Germany
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Related:
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Al-Muhajiroun: 2017-07-04 Teen who plotted to bomb Elton John concert on 9/11 anniversary sentenced to life
Al-Muhajiroun: 2017-06-06 Day 4: London Bridge attacker appeared in Channel 4 doc on ‘British jihadis’
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Azad Kashmir: 2019-10-12 Pakistanis form human chain in solidarity with Kashmir
Azad Kashmir: 2019-10-09 AJK premier urges JKLF protesters to call off march to LoC as 'purpose largely met'
Azad Kashmir: 2019-10-08 JKLF asks AJK government to remove hurdles, let marchers cross LoC
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Britain
Anjem Choudary Released from Prison
2018-10-20
[AnNahar] Radical holy man 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 is currently in jug for supporting the Islamic State..
, long a thorn in the side of British authorities, was released from prison on Friday having served half his sentence for encouraging support for the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group, British media reported.

The 51-year-old was tossed in the calaboose
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
for five-and-a-half years in 2016, and will serve the rest of his sentence under strict supervision orders having been released from Belmarsh prison, near London.

He is expected to return to his home in Ilford, east of London, although will not be able to use any internet-enabled devices without permission, the BBC reported.

Other restrictions are reported to include bans on leaving Britannia without permission and on attending certain mosques and he will only be allowed to meet with people approved by the police.

Choudary is the former head in Britannia of Islam4UK or 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....
, a now-banned group co-founded by Omar Bakri Muhammad that called for Islamic law in the UK.

For two decades, the former lawyer of Pak descent stayed on the right side of the law, becoming Britannia's most prominent radical preacher.

Among those radicalised by Muhajiroun were the jacket wallahs who killed 52 people on London's public transport system in July 2005, and the men who murdered soldier Lee Rigby in the capital in 2013, police say.

The court heard that Choudary had broadcast speeches recognising His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart...
as the leader of the Islamic State.

Choudary and his co-defendant Mohammed Rahman were locked away
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
by officers from the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command on September 25, 2014.

The father-of-five previously hit the headlines for organising a pro-the late Osama bin Laden
... who is now among the dear departed, though not among the dearest...
event in London in 2011.

He also belonged to a group that burned poppies, the symbol of remembrance for deaths in war, during an Armistice Day protest in the British capital in 2010.

In a 2014 interview with AFP, Choudary called on western journalists, civilians and troops in "Moslem countries" to "completely withdraw and allow us to implement the Sharia".

Former police terror chief Richard Walton called him a "hardened dangerous terrorist" who had had a "huge influence on Islamist extremism in this country".
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Terror Networks
US adds five militants to its list of global terrorists
2017-04-02
More on this story from a few days ago.
[DAWN] The US State Department on Friday added five murderous Moslems to its list of global terrorists, including 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...
, who was allegedly associated with a group that once ran a safe house in Lahore.

The other four are El Shafee Elsheikh, Sami Bouras, Shane Dominic Crawford, and Mark John Taylor.

The official US notification identified Anjem Choudary as "a British holy warrior with links to convicted snuffies and holy warrior networks in the UK, including the proscribed 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....
group."

Al-Muhajiroun is a banned holy warrior organization that was based in Britannia but also ran a Lahore safe house for visiting British Moslems. The group operated in Britannia from January 14, 1986 to August 2005. In January 2010, the British government banned al-Muhajiroun.

Anjem Choudary was tossed in the calaboose
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
in September 2014 for pledging allegiance to the bad boy Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group and for facilitating the IS recruitment drive.

He was sentenced to prison in September 2016. Choudary has stated that he will continue his recruitment activities from prison. Born in the UK on January 18, 1967, Anjem Choudary is the son of a Welling market trader and is of Pak descent.

Information released by the US State Department shows that El Shafee Elsheikh travelled to Syria in 2012, joined Al Qaeda’s local branch, and later joined the bad boy Islamic State group. In May 2016, Elsheikh was identified as a member of the IS execution cell known as "The Beatles," a group accused of beheading more than 27 hostages and torturing many more.

Elsheikh was said to have earned a reputation for waterboarding, mock executions, and crucifixions while serving as an IS jailer.

Sami Bouras is a Swedish citizen of Tunisian descent who is an alleged member of Al Qaeda and who has been involved with planning suicide kabooms.

Shane Dominic Crawford is a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago and the State Department identified him as a foreign terrorist fighter in Syria carrying out terrorist activity on behalf of IS, including acting as an English language propagandist for the group.

Mark John Taylor is a New Zealand national who has been fighting in Syria with IS since the fall of 2014. Taylor has used social media, including appearing in a 2015 IS propaganda video, to encourage terrorist attacks in Australia and New Zealand, the State Department said.

"Elsheikh, Choudary, Bouras, Crawford, and Taylor have committed or pose a significant risk of committing acts of terrorism," the notification warned.

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Britain
Is the attacker Abu Izzadeen the Jamaican national?
2017-03-23
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] According to the police chief of counterterrorism Mark Rowley reported by Agencies, the unknown attacker is "Asian" as we can see in the enhanced picture. But English newspaper "The Independent" reported on its website that it may be the Jamaican national Abu Izzadeen known as Trevor Brooks
... also Omar Brooks and Abu Baraa for reasons that no doubt made sense at the time. He was born in Britain of Jamaican parentage, worked as an electrician before discovering the joys of Mohammedanism, followed on short order by the additional pleasures of Al Muhajiroun and preaching fiery nothings for offshoot Al-Ghurabaa...
in Britannia, where he was born 42 years ago.

However,
a clean conscience makes a soft pillow...
a correspondent for ABC News reported that he had spoken to Abu Izzadeen’s lawyer, saying that Abu Izzadeen is still serving his sentence in a prison in London. "So it couldn’t have been him," as stated by the official front man for the Gurabaa organization established by the Lebanese - Syrian Omar Bakri Mohammed, currently living in Leb after being expelled from Britannia. Al Arabiya reported the news published by the independent based on "reports that it didn’t hear about."
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Britain
Islamic State supporters face jail after infiltrated in undercover police sting
2017-01-14
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] An undercover officer smashed a terror cell drumming up support for Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
Death Eaters after he spent nearly two years infiltrating meetings to record their inflammatory speeches.

The officer identified only as Kamal forged close relationships with the Luton chapter of a banned group linked to hate 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...
as he collected evidence, a court heard.

In one rant, one of the gang spoke of 40 truck bombs "driving down Oxford Street", the Old Bailey was told.

Speeches were delivered to up to 100 people, including young children, and the group praised Isil and urged others to travel to Syria to fight.

Zaiur Rahman, 39, was convicted of arranging meetings after putting up a marquee in his back garden to host the Luton chapter of 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....

What if the flow of petrodollars is interrupted?
Meetings were also held in a nearby Methodist church hall.

Mohammed Choudry, 23, was found guilty of encouraging support for Isil, while Mohammed Istiak Alamgir, 37, Rajib Khan, 38, and Yousaf Bashir, 36, were convicted of similar offences last summer.

The invitation-only gatherings in June and July 2015 featured speeches calling for gay people to be thrown from buildings, the court heard.

One was held on the anniversary of the London Tube bombings while in another Choudry spoke of "40 trucks driving down Oxford Street full of explosives".

Choudry, who is married with a young child, told his audience: "My brothers, there is a wave coming. Either you be part of it or you drown. Either you like it or you don't like it.'
"The arc of history is bending in our direction, O my brothers. Grab your surfboards, and haaaaannnnggg tennnnnnn!!!"
Anjem Choudary, who was last year tossed in the calaboose
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
for five-and-a-half years, spoke at one of the meetings in Rahman's garden.

Those attending the speeches included Shazib and Junead Khan. Junead Khan is serving a life sentence for plotting to kill a US soldier in the UK, while Shazib Khan is serving a 13-year jail term for plans to fight alongside Isis in Syria.

Rahman, from Luton, was convicted of three counts of arranging meetings in support of a proscribed organization, while Choudry, from Maidenhead, Berkshire, was convicted of one count of encouraging support for a proscribed organization.

Judge Michael Topolski QC told the pair they had been convicted "of arranging meetings and speaking at a meeting in support of a vicious terrorist organization, who's members and supporters, just like you two, have hijacked and corrupted the principles and practices of an ancient and revered religion for its own purposes".

Kamal accompanied Rahman and Choudry to a meeting where the speaker praised the massacre of 12 journalists at French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo
...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority of the active testicles left in Europe...
The court heard a secret recording where the speaker says: "It's a great day, it's excellent news."
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Britain
Anjem Choudary, Islamist Activist in Britain, Is Convicted of Supporting ISIS
2016-08-17
[NYTIMES] One of Britannia’s best-known Islamist activists has been found guilty of inviting support for the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
and could face a prison term of up to 10 years, officials announced on Tuesday.

The activist, 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...
, 49, and an associate, Mohammed Mizanur Rahman, 33, were convicted of using online lectures and messages to encourage support for the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIS, which is banned in Britannia.

In social media posts, the two men pledged allegiance to the caliphate declared by the head of the Islamic State, His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us...
, and said that Moslems had a duty to obey and support him.

The men were tossed in the slammer
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
in 2014 and were tried at the Old Bailey in London, the central criminal court. The jury delivered its verdict on July 28, but it was not announced until Tuesday for legal reasons. Sentencing is scheduled for Sept. 6.

Mr. Choudary is the former head of 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....
, an organization that is now banned. The group was founded by Omar Bakri Muhammad, who was expelled from Britannia in 2005 and went to Leb. Mr. Choudary later led another organization, Islam4UK, which has also been banned.

He has long been infamous in Britannia for praising the men who attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001; for refusing to condemn the London bombings of 2005; and for saying he wanted to convert Buckingham Palace into a mosque and fly the Islamic flag over 10 Downing Street.

Mr. Choudary served two years in jail for encouraging people to kill British and American troops in Afghanistan. One of the men who hacked a British soldier, Lee Rigby, to death in 2013 had attended protests organized by Mr. Choudary.

Dean Haydon, the head of the Metropolitan Police’s Counterterrorism Command, said in a statement, "These men have stayed just within the law for many years, but there is no one within the counterterrorism world that has any doubts of the influence that they have had, the hate they have spread and the people that they have encouraged to join terrorist organizations."

How Anjem Choudary's mouth was finally shut

[BBC] For 20 years Anjem Choudary stood on street corners, in shopping precincts, outside mosques, embassies and police stations and used his megaphone to drive a wedge between Muslims and the rest of Britain. Now he has been convicted of inviting others to support the Islamic State militant group.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Abu Rumaysah was a Hindu who Converted to Islam
2016-01-07
Sources in London revealed the identity of the “murderer” who appeared in the latest ISIS video which showed him killing 5 people accused by the organisation of spying for Britain. He spoke with a British accent and threatened the United Kingdom with terrorist attacks. Sources say that the British man named Siddhartha Dhar (Abu Rumaysah) was formerly a Hindu and then converted to Islam several years ago. The sources added that Abu Rumaysah was a leader of the Al-Muhajiroun organisation which was founded by Omar Bakri Muhammad, a Syrian who is currently being held at Rumiyyah prison in south Lebanon.

Al-Muhajiroun sources told Asharq Al-Awsat yesterday that Abu Rumaysah is considered one of the converts to Islam in the group, and that their number exceeds 20. The most prominent of these converts is Abu Izz Al-Din who is of Jamaican origin.

Scotland Yard police had arrested Abu Rumaysah on charges of incitement but after his release on bail in 2014, he fled to Syria. He joined ISIS in the city of Al-Raqqah and appeared in a video carrying his newborn baby, his fourth son, with one hand and a rifle with the other.

The sister of Abu Rumaysah Konika Dhar acknowledged that the voice of the “murderer” in the latest video resembles her brother’s voice but said that she could not say for sure. She vowed to kill him herself if it is proven that he is the perpetrator and the British authorities have not yet made an official comment with regards to this.
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Iraq
Son of 'Tottenham Ayatollah' killed in Iraq: Sources
2015-12-30
[AlAhram] A son of the Syrian-born radical holy man Omar Bakri has been killed in Iraq fighting alongside ISIS group, security sources said Tuesday.

The Popular Mobilisation, a paramilitary group, said that it and the security forces had killed Bilal Omar Bakri.

He was "leading a group that tried to attack one of our units," in Salaheddin north of Baghdad, according to a statement from the group, dominated by Tehran-backed Shiite militias.

A Lebanese security source confirmed that Bilal Omar Bakri, who was in his late 20s, had been killed "fighting in the ranks of ISIS" in Salaheddin province.

Another of the preacher's sons, Mohammad Omar, who was in his late 30s, died fighting for ISIS in Aleppo in Syria several months earlier, the source told AFP on condition of anonymity.

The brothers had travelled together from Britannia to Iraq, the source added.

Omar Bakri, who holds Lebanese citizenship, became known in Britannia for supporting Al-Qaeda.

A security source said that he was sentenced in October to six years of hard labour for establishing an organization affiliated with the jihadist Al-Nusra Front in Syria and establishing training camps for it in Leb.

When he was based in London, the Sunni firebrand
...firebrands are noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments...
was known in the media as the "Tottenham Ayatollah" despite the term applying to a high rank in the Shiite clergy.

Omar Bakri fled Britannia, where he lived for two decades, to Leb after praising the perpetrators of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States and the July 7, 2005 bombings in London.

He was tossed in the calaboose
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
and sentenced to life in prison in Leb on a number of charges but was freed on bail in 2010 pending a retrial, judicial sources said at the time.

He had most recently been arrested in May 2014 for his involvement in unrest in the northern city of Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
He has denied any links to Al-Qaeda although he said he believed "in the same ideology".
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
British Son of Omar Bakri Mohammed is 'executed by ISIS in Syria' after fleeing there to fight
2015-11-05
Donated one to the evils of Allah. Allahu Akhbar, Asshole!
The British son of the hate preacher Omar Bakri Mohammed is reported to have been executed while fighting with the terror group ISIS in Syria.

Mohammed Omar Bakri Mohammed is said to have died in Aleppo province in the north of Syria, with it claimed he was executed by ISIS for apostasy.

His father is a notorious hate preacher and the founder of the al-Qaeda-supporting Al-Muhajiroun network of Islamic extremists in the UK.

Lebanon 24 claimed that his family have refused to confirm or deny the death of his son but said they believed he had been fighting in the province of Homs.

It also quoted a security source as saying that his death could not be confirmed. The source said it could not be ruled out that the reports may be a ruse in an attempt by him to return to Lebanon.

Bakri fled from the UK in the wake of the 5 July 2005 suicide bombings on the London Underground and re-surfaced in Lebanon
Bakri's son is said to have left Tripoli in Lebanon to join ISIS over a year ago.

An picture of him said to have been taken in Syria has been circulating on social media accounts.

His father is currently in Roumieh prison after being convicted of supporting terrorism following his arrest in a raid by security forces in April 2014.

Yesterday, he was sentenced to serve an additional six years in prison with hard labour
Sucks to be you....and your family
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Report: Lebanese Man Beheaded after Son Lures Him to IS-held Raqa
2015-10-31
[AnNahar] A Lebanese man has been beheaded after his jihadist son "lured" him to the Syrian city of Raqa, the self-proclaimed capital of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group's "caliphate," a media report said on Friday.

Mahmoud al-Hussein, who hails from the al-Mankoubine neighborhood of the northern city of Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
, headed to Raqa to seek the return of his two daughters, who were convinced by their brother, Yehia al-Hussein, to travel to the jihadist bastion, Mahmoud's brother told MTV.

The man fell into an IS "ambush" the moment he arrived in Raqa and his son told the jihadist group that his father had "cursed the Prophet Mohammed," his brother added.

He said the son had returned to Leb after his family exerted efforts to convince him to leave the IS.

However,
you can observe a lot just by watching...
he later returned to Raqa along with his two sisters after telling the family that he was accompanying them for "tourism in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
."

The father, who was "beheaded in the presence of his son and two daughters," was also accused of "establishing ties with the Lebanese government and the Turkish consulate," his brother told MTV.

The TV network noted that Omar Bakri Fustoq, an extermist Islamist preacher tossed in the calaboose
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
in Leb, was married to one of Mahmoud's daughters, without specifying if it was referring to one of the two aforementioned women.
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Britain
UK charges radical preacher Choudary with inviting support for IS
2015-08-06
[CBSNEWS] Authorities in Britannia have charged radical 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...
and another man with inviting support for the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Wednesday that Choudary, 48, and Mohammed Mizanur Rahman, 32, have been charged with supporting ISIS, which is a banned
...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organization
. The service said the offenses occurred from June 29, 2014, until March 6 of this year.

"We have concluded that there is sufficient evidence and it is in the public interest to prosecute Anjem Choudary and Mohammed Rahman for inviting support for ISIL, a proscribed terrorist organization," said Sue Hemming, head of special crime and counter-terrorism at the CPS, in a statement.

"It is alleged that Anjem Choudary and Mohammed Rahman invited support for ISIS in individual lectures which were subsequently published online," she said.

Each man is charged with one offence under Britannia's Terrorism Act 2000. They were set to appear on Wednesday at Westminster Magistrates Court.

Choudary is the former leader of a banned radical group called 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....
. A British-born lawyer turned Islamic preacher, he has for years been asserting his democratic right to call for an end to democracy.

"You cannot have man legislating and playing God in Parliament, and at the same time believe that Allah is the only politician," Choudary told CBS News correspondent Clarissa Ward in a June 2014 interview.
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