Generation of terrorist killers were inspired by Choudary and al-Muhajiroun group across world
A GENERATION of terrorist killers have been inspired by Choudary and his al-Muhajiroun group across the world for two decades.
They included Usman Khan, one of a group of ALM members who plotted a Christmas 2012 car bomb attack on the Stock Exchange.
After his release from jail Khan murdered students Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones at a prisoner rehabilitation conference at Fishmongers’ Hall, London, in November 2019.
Passers-by tried to subdue Khan with a narwhal tusk before cops shot him dead.
Khan had Choudary’s number in his phone when held in 2010.
Khuram Butt, leader of three men who killed eight people at London Bridge in June 2017, was said to have been “like a lion out of a cage” after meeting with Choudary at his home.
Omar Kyham was the leader of a gang of ex-ALM followers arrested in March 2004 for planning a bomb attack on London’s Ministry of Sound club and Bluewater shopping centre.
They had attended lectures by ALM leader Omar Bakri Muhammad, at a mosque in Crawley, West Sussex.
The arrests prompted Bakri to shut down ALM in November that year but the group continued under different guises.
Another Choudary disciple was Michael Adebolajo who, along with Michael Adebowale, murdered Fusilier Lee Rigby outside Woolwich Barracks in South West London in 2013.
Adebolajo converted to Islam around the age of 15 or 16 after attending a stall run by ALM.
Brusthom Ziamani, 19, fell under the influence of convert Anthony Small, who was linked to Choudary.
Ziamani was arrested in 2014 wandering the South London streets with a knife intending to kill a soldier. He was jailed for 22 years.
Choudary’s influence spread abroad. Paris attacks ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud is thought to have been involved with a group started by Choudary called Shariah4Belgium.
Taimur Abdulwahab Al-Abdaly, from Luton, blew himself up in Stockholm, Sweden, just before Christmas 2010.
It emerged he had been attending a mosque popular with ALM supporters.