Monday, May 27, 2013

Muslims linked to soldier murder suspects

Not lone wolf after all.  Of course not, Muslims are always part of a group.

 

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Islamist extremists linked to soldier murder suspects

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/islamist-extremists-linked-to-soldier-murder-suspects-29298642.html

 

David Barrett, Ben Farmer and Gordon Rayner London - 27 May 2013

 

An extensive network of Islamist extremists and terrorism suspects lies

behind the men suspected of murdering Drummer Lee Rigby, it has emerged.

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Both men had direct links with Usman Ali, an alleged extremist and former

member of the banned group Al-Muhajiroun, and Khalid Fikry, an extremist

cleric and supporter of convicted terrorists.

 

Michael Adebolajo, the older of the two suspects, was also close friends

with Ibrahim Hassan, who has served time in prison for inciting terrorism

overseas. Others in their circle include Richard Dart, a white Muslim

convert who was jailed earlier this year over a plot to target soldiers'

funeral corteges at Royal Wootton Bassett.

 

The freshly discovered links are in addition to strong connections between

both men and Anjem Choudary, the former leader of Al-Muhajiroun, which he

took over from Omar Bakri Mohammed, the man who converted Adebolajo to

Islam.

 

The sheer number of radicals and terrorism suspects connected to the two men

raises yet more uncomfortable questions for the British security services

about their assessment of the two suspects, who are understood to have been

categorised as not posing a threat to life.

 

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One of Adebolajo's close friends is Ibrahim Hassan - also known as Abu

Nasaybah - who was arrested at the BBC on Friday night on suspicion of

terrorism offences after giving an interview to 'Newsnight'.

 

He was jailed in 2008 for inciting terrorism abroad, alongside Abu Izzadeen,

another Muslim convert who was radicalised by Abu Hamza, the hook-handed

cleric awaiting trial for terrorism offences in the US.

 

Hassan was regularly seen at demonstrations with Dart. He also featured in a

TV documentary about Dart called 'My Brother the Islamist'.

 

It emerged yesterday that Adebolajo (28) and his co-accused, Michael

Adebowale (22), attended a prayer group organised by Usman Ali.

 

Ali (36) a former member of Al-Muhajiroun, was banned for life from the

Greenwich Islamic Centre in 2007 after the mosque's trustees won an

injunction against him.

 

Both men are also thought to have come into contact with Khalid Fikry, an

extremist cleric who has supported convicted terrorists, and who has spoken

at events at the Islamic Society of Greenwich University, where both

suspects studied.

 

Last week, Omar Bakri Mohammed, the so-called 'Tottenham Ayatollah' who

founded Al-Muhajiroun and is now banned from the UK, said he had personally

converted Adebolajo.

 

Bakri Mohammed also said Adebowale was "well known" to his successor Anjem

Choudary.

 

There were calls yesterday for Choudary to be placed under a Terrorism

Prevention Investigation Measure but he said: "I don't think they have a

case. I read the legislation - it's all about people involved in inciting

terrorism or involved in terrorism themselves. When have I ever done that?"

(C Daily Telegraph, London)

 

Irish Independent

 

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