Osama bin London recruited terrorist in UK

Telegraph:

An Islamic leader who called himself "Osama Bin London" groomed and corrupted young Muslims - including the 21/7 bombers - at terror training camps across Britain, a court has heard.

Mohammed Hamid told his followers the 52 deaths in the July 7 attacks on London were "not even breakfast to me", the jury was told.

Hamid organised Friday prayer groups at his home in East London and went on a camp in the Lake District with all four of the men convicted of the July 21 attempted bombings, Woolwich Crown Court was told.

He ran an Islamic bookstall on Oxford Street with Muktar Ibrahim, one of the guilty bombers, where he was arrested for being aggressive to members of the public and making a racist comment to a policeman, the jury was told.

Hamid was said to have given his name as Osama bin London and to have told the police officer: "I’ve got a bomb and I’m going to blow you all up."

The court heard that Hamid, 50, of Clapton, east London, is accused of soliciting to murder, a charge to which co-accused Atilla Ahmet has already pleaded guilty.

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The court was told that terrorist training took the form of camping and paint-balling trips. Mr Farrell said the trips were designed to “foster within the participants that they were training for 'Jihad’ against the 'Kuffir’, or non-believers”.

The court was shown police surveillance pictures of a training camp at a farm in Great Langdale in the Lake District in May 2004 when Hamid was shown wearing a woollen hat and walking boots, alongside the four July 21 bombers - the men who tried and failed to detonate rucksack bombs two weeks after the 7/7 attacks.

Then in August 2004, MI5 surveillance officers allegedly saw Muktar Ibrahim on a camp at the same farm with 14 others, firing imaginary weapons, performing “leopard crawling” through streams and up hills and practising silent “ghost walking.”

The court also heard how Hamid and two other of his co-defendants, Mousa Brown and Mohammed al-Figari, were filmed paintballing in February 2005 by a BBC crew in Tonbridge, Kent, for a documentary called “Don’t Panic, I’m Islamic.”

Five of the six defendants, along with July 21 bombers Ramzi Mohammed and Hussein Osman, were at the same centre on July 3 - just four days before the suicide attacks in London, it was alleged. MI5 put a recording device in Hamid’s home in September 2005 and in April 2006 an undercover officer approached his stall in Oxford Street and was invited to join the Friday prayer meetings and to go on camping weekends in the New Forest and at an Islamic school in Sussex.

It was at the school in Sussex on July 22 2006, that Hamid’s comments about the July 7 deaths more than a year earlier were recorded.

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All of the pictured suspects are black including the one accused of making a racist remark. This guy is a real preacher of hate. He needs to be isolated so that he can not infect prisoners with his virulent Islamic preachings. He apparently was directly responsible for recruiting people to engage in mass murder for Allah. The Independent has more on the recruiters.