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By:
Torquemada
When: 22 Mar 17 19:27
Who was he CJ?
By:
GoOnThen
When: 22 Mar 17 19:28
Omar Brooks.
By:
Torquemada
When: 22 Mar 17 19:29
I never saw the John Reid thing. Murderer a well known extremist muslim was he?
By:
Ibrahima Sonko
When: 22 Mar 17 19:32
Finsbury park regular.
By:
GoOnThen
When: 22 Mar 17 19:33
Google Abu Izzadeen
By:
moisok
When: 22 Mar 17 19:33
don't jump to that!!  He may have converted to christianity - as some are doing to stay in germany for instance
By:
Ibrahima Sonko
When: 22 Mar 17 19:38
I didnt realise he drove the length of the bridge on the pavement Sad
By:
sixtwosix
When: 22 Mar 17 19:40
we allowed him to speak his hatred and racism on the streets for year after year ....the lunatics are truly running this asylum.
By:
GoOnThen
When: 22 Mar 17 19:40
Choudary chuckling in his cell.
By:
scandanavian_haven
When: 22 Mar 17 19:41
I would imagine the police would have been half expecting something like this to happen in the summer time where there are more people around in these tourist hotspots
By:
Ramruma
When: 22 Mar 17 19:46
Don't name names. They are probably wrong anyway but this is why the mods delete threads: to save Betfair from potential libel suits.
By:
Hamsterdam
When: 22 Mar 17 19:47
That bridge is always packed ...i was there on a wet weekend in October...tourists taking photos ... they spill over onto the road also.
By:
GoOnThen
When: 22 Mar 17 19:48
He looks beyond the libel stage!
By:
guinness2dear
When: 22 Mar 17 19:49
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By:
Shrewd_dude
When: 22 Mar 17 19:49
That bridge is always packed ...i was there on a wet weekend in October...tourists taking photos ... they spill over onto the road also.

Yeah. I was there on a the Saturday before going to the boxing at the O2 and I wanted to wander up the bridge to the War Rooms to see if there was a queue. Crowds barely moving so got 100 yards from the bridge and turned around.
By:
zorrostrikes
When: 22 Mar 17 19:53
right in front of M I 6 building. ?

maybe it's a trial attack to see what they have in response?
By:
sixtwosix
When: 22 Mar 17 19:55
The MP's in the building were in the safest possible place , not a chance one person with a knife would get close .
By:
scandanavian_haven
When: 22 Mar 17 19:58
apparently today there wasn't that many people on the bridge, at 2:50 around this time of year it wouldn't have been ram packed thankfully. Summer though it is heaving.
By:
Make my hay
When: 22 Mar 17 20:06
Police probably already closed areas off around the  bridge to pedestrians before 2.50, getting ready for the scripted event.
By:
Hamsterdam
When: 22 Mar 17 20:12
Abu Izzadeen, confirmed on channel 4
By:
Hamsterdam
When: 22 Mar 17 20:13
Abu Izzadeen (Arabic: ابو عز الدين‎‎, Abū ‘Izz ad-Dīn, born Trevor Brooks (18 April 1975 – 22 March 2017), was a British spokesman for Al Ghurabaa, a British Muslim organisation banned under the Terrorism Act 2006 for the glorification of terrorism.[1] He was convicted on charges of terrorist fund-raising and inciting terrorism overseas on 17 April 2008,[2] and sentenced to four and a half years in jail. He was released in May 2009,[3] after serving three and a half years, including time on remand.

In March 2017 he was shot and died after carrying out the 2017 Westminster attack in Westminster.[4]

Contents  [hide]
1    Personal background
2    Political activities
3    Arrests
3.1    February 2007
3.2    April 2007
3.3    April 2008
3.4    November 2015
4    See also
5    References
Personal background
Abu Izzadeen is a British citizen born on 18 April 1975 in Hackney, east London, to a family originally from Jamaica. Brooks converted to Islam the day before he turned 18, on 17 April 1993, changing his name to Omar, but preferring to be called Abu Izadeen. He is fluent in Arabic.[5][6]

He trained and worked for a while as an electrician. He and his Arab-born wife Mokhtaria were married in 1998. They have three children.[6][7][8]

Political activities
Abu Izzadeen met Omar Bakri Muhammed and Abu Hamza al-Masri at Finsbury Park Mosque in the 1990s; this is when he is thought to have been radicalized.[7]

He visited Pakistan in 2001, before the September 11 attacks, as part of Al-Muhajiroun; he claims he went there to give a series of lectures. He also claimed to have attended terror training camps in Afghanistan.[6][7]

He described the 7/7 suicide bombers in London as "completely praiseworthy".[9]

On the eve of the anniversary of the 7/7 attacks in London, he was filmed preaching to a group of Muslims in Birmingham mocking and laughing at those who believe in the war on terror and who feel a need to resist Islamic terrorism. He also mocked the courage of journalists who were captured by insurgents.[10]

He has openly stated that he wishes to die as a suicide bomber.[11]

On 20 September 2006, Abu Izadeen and Anjem Choudary disrupted Home Secretary John Reid's first public meeting with Muslims since his appointment. He called Reid an "enemy" of Islam.[12] John Humphrys interviewed Izzadeen on the 22 September 2006 edition of BBC Radio 4's Today programme. In a heated discussion Abu Izzadeen stated that his aim was to bring about Sharia law in the UK and that this should be achieved without following the democratic process but rather "in accordance to the Islamic methodology".[13]

Arrests
February 2007
British police arrested Abu Izadeen on charges of inciting terrorism on 2 August 2007. A spokesman for Scotland Yard said the arrest is related to an "on-going inquiry," involving a speech Abu Izadeen gave in the West Midlands area in 2006, which predates the 20 September 2006 incident.[14][15]

April 2007
He was arrested again in a pre-dawn police raid on 24 April 2007 under the Terrorism Act 2000 "in connection with inciting others to commit acts of terrorism overseas and terrorist fundraising". [16]

April 2008
On 17 April 2008 Izzadeen was among six men convicted at Kingston Crown Court of supporting terrorism, while the jury failed to reach a verdict on a third charge of encouraging terrorism.[17] He was subsequently jailed for four and a half years.

November 2015
On 14 November 2015, Izzadeen and Sulayman Keeler were detained by Hungarian police at Lőkösháza, Hungary on a train heading to Bucharest, Romania, because they were not able to identify themselves.[18][19][20][21] During the time of their detention, on 17 November 2015, a European Arrest Warrant appeared in the Schengen Information System against both individuals. The two men did not inform the British authorities about leaving the UK despite the court decision ordering them to do so.
By:
Ibrahima Sonko
When: 22 Mar 17 20:13
if it is him then the left wing media are going to find it hard to say he was mentally ill.
By:
sixtwosix
When: 22 Mar 17 20:14
If it is him , and the Americans see the vile spewed out by him on the streets for years .....they will put us on their new banned state list.
By:
Dr Crippen
When: 22 Mar 17 20:16
Who will question their wisdom if they do the way we're harboured them.
By:
Torquemada
When: 22 Mar 17 20:18
Not been named yet on SKY. I wonder how C4 found out so fast?
By:
saddo
When: 22 Mar 17 20:19
Agree with 626, we look as though we encourage this type.
By:
GoOnThen
When: 22 Mar 17 20:19
I'm amazed he didn't work for Ch4.
By:
Hamsterdam
When: 22 Mar 17 20:20
I wonder how the poster on other page founded out so fast. It is him though, no doubt.
By:
Hamsterdam
When: 22 Mar 17 20:21
Which means homegrown although i think he is of jamaican heritage.
By:
moisok
When: 22 Mar 17 20:24
I cannot believe ch 4 talk about jumping ship midstream etc - they appear to be going really anti the dickhead - amazing scences.  Having a go at the security services  ho ho
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just thinks bubble

'how they treat trumpton'
By:
moisok
When: 22 Mar 17 20:24
Mr kahn says get used to it  or he did
By:
Mr Eboue
When: 22 Mar 17 20:28
Trevor Brooks aka Abu Izzadeen's solicitor confirms that he is still in jail and could not have been the attacker today.
By:
tobermory
When: 22 Mar 17 20:29
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/abu-izzadeen-london-terror-attacks-westminster-who-is-he-police-politicians-a7644626.html

here is on video saying Sajid Khan is an apostate and any muslims in parliament are too

Maybe he was hoping to get one of them
By:
Ramruma
When: 22 Mar 17 20:31
Conflicting reports about whether the guy named is still in prison (which would mean it's the wrong name) or if he got early release. 1.01 gubbed?
By:
tobermory
When: 22 Mar 17 20:34
The Police have named  him , not just media
By:
Torquemada
When: 22 Mar 17 20:37
Have they got the right name though? Is it this Abu Izzy guy or not?
By:
1st time poster
When: 22 Mar 17 20:37
ch 4 backtracking now ,still in jail
By:
Ramruma
When: 22 Mar 17 20:37
The Police have named  him , not just media

Probably is him then.
By:
moisok
When: 22 Mar 17 20:38
IRONY

they are meeting now in europe  RIGHT NOW how to deal with daesh  ho ho
By:
moisok
When: 22 Mar 17 20:39
discussing a new frame work to deal with them
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