Tag Archives: United Kingdom

Police arrested a man and a woman, both British nationals aged 26, upon their arrival at Heathrow Airport from Egypt, as part of an investigation into persons traveling to Syria for terrorist purposes. “We are concerned about reports of extremist groups operating in Syria and we take very seriously any claims that British nationals are […]

The head of London’s Ahmadis, a Muslim sect that is persecuted in Pakistan, urged the government to prevent attacks in the UK by Pakistani Islamist groups with satellite offices there. Recent statements by anti-Ahmadi groups in London have said Ahmadis should be killed.

The High Court found it was “wholly unpersuaded” by radical cleric Abu Hamza’s claims he is medically unfit for trial, and ordered his extradition to the US to proceed immediately. He and four other terror suspects have exhausted appeals against their extradition.

The European Court of Human Rights denied Abu Hamza’s appeal against extradition, so the UK-based radical cleric will face trial in the US for the fatal kidnapping of Westerners in Yemen and attempting to set up a terrorist training camp in Oregon. Four other terror suspects held in the UK — Babar Ahmad, Syed Talha […]

A member of parliament has asked the Foreign Ministry to investigate the Al Muntada Trust, a London-based charity that raises funds for projects in Africa, for possible links to Boko Haram in Nigeria. The charity group has featured radical speakers in the past, and last year “secretly” flew in aid to Somalia.

A British businessman is seeking to prosecute Babar Ahmad, who has been in British custody since his 2004 arrest and is fighting extradition to the US. Ahmad ran a London-based website hosted in the US that supported the Taliban and other Islamist militants.