Call to sniff out bomb ‘brainwashers’

A Muslim advisor has called for the extremists who “brainwashed” failed Exeter suicide bomber Nicky Reilly to be brought to justice. Muslim convert Reilly from Plymouth has admitted attempted murder at the Giraffe restaurant on 22 May. During the inquiry, police said he had been radicalised. Imam Dr Abdul-Jalil Sajid, from the Muslim Council for

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Glasgow Airport bomb attack: doctor jailed

The brother of a terrorist who died in an airport suicide attack has been jailed for 18 months for withholding information about the plot. Sabeel Ahmed, an NHS doctor, was sent a chilling email about the mission two days before his older brother Kafeel rammed a jeep into the air terminal in Glasgow. In it

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Senior Muslim officer is promoted

One of the country’s most senior Muslim police officers has been promoted by the Metropolitan Police. Ali Dizaei is now a Commander and can now join the Association of Chief Police Officers, having previously been a Chief Superintendent. He was at the centre of a four-year _4m investigation over allegations of perverting the course of

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Five students win terror appeal

The convictions of five young Muslim men jailed over extremist literature have been quashed by the Appeal Court. Freeing the men, the Lord Chief Justice said their convictions for downloading extremist propaganda were unsafe as there was no proof of terrorist intent. A jury convicted the students in 2007 after hearing the men, of Bradford

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Wooded terror suspects face court

A pair of terror suspects charged with training in woods near Maidenhead last summer are set to appear at the Old Bailey in London on Monday. Yassin Mutegombwa, 23, and Kibley Da Costa, 24, were part of a group of nine Muslim men arrested after a series of anti-terror raids across the south east last

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