Four British Pakistanis charged with planning terror attacks
Special Correspondent
LONDON: Four British Pakistanis and a well- known Muslim convert have been charged with planning terrorist attacks.
Richard Dart, 29, is one of the five people four men and a woman arrested in London on July 5, 7 and 18, who were charged late last night with terrorist offences by the Metropolitan Police. Imran Mahmood, 21, from Northolt, West London, and Jahangir Alom, 26, understood to be a former Metropolitan Police community support officer, from Stratford, East London, have also been been charged with preparing for acts of terrorism.
Dart, Mahmood, and Alom are alleged to have travelled to Pakistan for terrorism training, travelled abroad to commit acts of terrorism and advised and counselled the commission of terrorist acts between July 25, 2010 and July 6, 2012. A fourth man, Khalid Javed Baqa, 47, from Barking, East London, was charged with three counts of possession of terrorism-related material.
The material included a CD containing 39 ways to support and participate in jihad and three issues of an al Qaeda inspired magazine. A fifth, Ruksana Begum, 22, from North London, has been charged with possession of a micro memory card likely to be of use to a terrorist.
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Three British Muslims - including a convert who was featured in a documentary about radical Islam and a former London police support officer - have been charged with travelling to Pakistan for terror training, police said early Thursday. Scotland Yard said in a statement that Richard Dart, 29, Imran Mahmood, 21, and Jahangir Alom, 26, had travelled to Pakistan between 2010 and 2012 ``with the intention of committing acts of terrorism or assisting another to commit such acts.''
The statement also alleges that the three provided others with advice and counselling about how to travel to Pakistan, find training, and how to stay safe while there. Two others, 22-year-old Ruksana Begum and 47-year-old Khalid Javed Baqa, were charged with having material likely to be useful for terrorism.
All five had been arrested earlier this month, and at least two of the accused had previously come to public attention. Dart was featured in a recent BBC documentary, ``My Brother the Islamist,'' which chronicled the efforts of his filmmaker stepbrother Robb Leech to understand why the former had rejected his family and embraced an uncompromising form of Islam. He was also featured in a YouTube video in which he criticized the British royal family, the marriage of Prince William to the then-Kate Middleton, and UK foreign policy.
Alom - a former police support officer who was arrested in an armed raid at his home - also made a YouTube appearance in which he described his time as an officer and expounded on his hard-line beliefs. The force said Begum was caught with a memory chip carrying issues of a publication it identified as ``Inspire,'' the name given to al Qaida's English-language magazine. Police said she had the documents ``without reasonable excuse.''
Police said Baqa was also caught with issues of Inspire, along with a CD containing the work ``39 Ways to Support and Participate in Jihad.'' Scotland Yard did not immediately release much information on Mahmood, but both he and Alom live near Olympic sites.
Alom's home is only a mile (1.6 kilometers) from London's Olympic Stadium, while Mahmood lives just down the street from the site of a Royal Air Force at Northolt in north-west London, from where Typhoon jets and other military elements are due to provide security for the 2012 Games. Nevertheless police insisted the case has nothing to do with the games, which begin July 27.
Intelligence officials say there has been an expected increase in chaeased without charge - after they were spotted canoeing on the River Lee, a branch of which runs through the Olympic site. Britain's terror level is labelled substantial, a notch below severe. A substantial threat level indicates that an attack is a strong possibility.
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Special Correspondent
LONDON: Four British Pakistanis and a well- known Muslim convert have been charged with planning terrorist attacks.
Richard Dart, 29, is one of the five people four men and a woman arrested in London on July 5, 7 and 18, who were charged late last night with terrorist offences by the Metropolitan Police. Imran Mahmood, 21, from Northolt, West London, and Jahangir Alom, 26, understood to be a former Metropolitan Police community support officer, from Stratford, East London, have also been been charged with preparing for acts of terrorism.
Dart, Mahmood, and Alom are alleged to have travelled to Pakistan for terrorism training, travelled abroad to commit acts of terrorism and advised and counselled the commission of terrorist acts between July 25, 2010 and July 6, 2012. A fourth man, Khalid Javed Baqa, 47, from Barking, East London, was charged with three counts of possession of terrorism-related material.
The material included a CD containing 39 ways to support and participate in jihad and three issues of an al Qaeda inspired magazine. A fifth, Ruksana Begum, 22, from North London, has been charged with possession of a micro memory card likely to be of use to a terrorist.
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Three British Muslims - including a convert who was featured in a documentary about radical Islam and a former London police support officer - have been charged with travelling to Pakistan for terror training, police said early Thursday. Scotland Yard said in a statement that Richard Dart, 29, Imran Mahmood, 21, and Jahangir Alom, 26, had travelled to Pakistan between 2010 and 2012 ``with the intention of committing acts of terrorism or assisting another to commit such acts.''
The statement also alleges that the three provided others with advice and counselling about how to travel to Pakistan, find training, and how to stay safe while there. Two others, 22-year-old Ruksana Begum and 47-year-old Khalid Javed Baqa, were charged with having material likely to be useful for terrorism.
All five had been arrested earlier this month, and at least two of the accused had previously come to public attention. Dart was featured in a recent BBC documentary, ``My Brother the Islamist,'' which chronicled the efforts of his filmmaker stepbrother Robb Leech to understand why the former had rejected his family and embraced an uncompromising form of Islam. He was also featured in a YouTube video in which he criticized the British royal family, the marriage of Prince William to the then-Kate Middleton, and UK foreign policy.
Alom - a former police support officer who was arrested in an armed raid at his home - also made a YouTube appearance in which he described his time as an officer and expounded on his hard-line beliefs. The force said Begum was caught with a memory chip carrying issues of a publication it identified as ``Inspire,'' the name given to al Qaida's English-language magazine. Police said she had the documents ``without reasonable excuse.''
Police said Baqa was also caught with issues of Inspire, along with a CD containing the work ``39 Ways to Support and Participate in Jihad.'' Scotland Yard did not immediately release much information on Mahmood, but both he and Alom live near Olympic sites.
Alom's home is only a mile (1.6 kilometers) from London's Olympic Stadium, while Mahmood lives just down the street from the site of a Royal Air Force at Northolt in north-west London, from where Typhoon jets and other military elements are due to provide security for the 2012 Games. Nevertheless police insisted the case has nothing to do with the games, which begin July 27.
Intelligence officials say there has been an expected increase in chaeased without charge - after they were spotted canoeing on the River Lee, a branch of which runs through the Olympic site. Britain's terror level is labelled substantial, a notch below severe. A substantial threat level indicates that an attack is a strong possibility.
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It was Pakistan that invaded Iraq and killed over a million people, maiming many more. It's Pakistan that is causing the bloodshed in Libya, Syria, Palestine, Lebanon.. not the West and Israel of course.. but Pakistan! Now go eat curry and start farting!
