UK police charged five people with terrorism offences
Thursday, July 19th, 2012 10:42:28 by Faisal Farooq
London police has charged five British Muslims, including a convert, for travelling to Pakistan for terror training and carrying out other preparations for acts of terrorism.
According to the media reports, three men accused of going to Pakistan for terrorist training, while a man and a woman are charged for possessing documents of militants.
“Richard Dart, 29, Imran Mahmood, 21, and Jahangir Alom, 26, had traveled to Pakistan between 2010 and 2012 with the intention of committing acts of terrorism or assisting another to commit such acts,” a statement issued by the Scotland Yard said on Thursday.
It further said that the others were charged for allegedly providing advices and counseling 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”, it stated.
According to BBC, all the five had been apprehended earlier this month, and at least two of the accused had previously come to public attention.
Richard Dart, the reportedly convert Muslim, 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 religion.
It is vital to mention here that Dart was also featured in a YouTube video in which he lashed out at British royal family, the marriage of Prince William to the then-Kate Middleton, and foreign policy of the United Kingdom.
The reported published in UK daily said, “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 hardline beliefs”.
Police officials while speaking to the media said that they arrested Begum with a memory chip carrying issues of a publication it identified as Inspire. According to the forces, another arrested, Baqa was also apprehended the issues of English version of Al-Qaeda magazine.
He was carrying a CD containing the work, “39 Ways to Support and Participate in Jihad”. However, the Scotland Yard didn’t release much information about the arrested persons.
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Posted by Faisal Farooq
on Jul 19 2012. Filed under Latest News, World.
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Pakistan should be removed from the commonwealth,it has bred terrorists that come to the uk and think that they have the right to bomb,along with honour killings in the UK Pakistani people living here kill daughters who do not obey their rule,and should be reminded that the UK laws must be obeyed and do not have the right to do that.