Most wanted Brit killed in drone strike

Telegraph:
An international alert was issued last year warning that Ibrahim Adam was trying to secure a passport and might be trying to return to Britain to launch attacks.
He was killed in the tribal region of Waziristan alongside Mohammed Azmir Khan, 37.
Both men and their brothers were believed to be part of an established network of radicals from Ilford, East London with connections to al-Qaeda.
Adam's father confirmed that his son had been killed and a close friend of Khan's family, who did not want to be named, said: "They have taken it very badly - this is the second son who has been killed in a drone strike."
Adam, 24, was the younger brother of Anthony Garcia, 28, one of the men jailed for life for plotting to blow up the Ministry of Sound night club or the Bluewater Shopping Centre with a fertiliser bomb in 2004.
Adam disappeared along with his older brother Lamine, 30, in May 2007 despite being put under a control order after previously being stopped while en route to Syria.
Lamine, who had a job as a tube driver had allegedly wanted to carry out an attack on a nightclub in Britain. He appears to have survived the drone attack.
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The UK has had more of its young men go over to the dark side than any Western country.  It probably says something about its multi culti environment.
 

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