Al Qaeda in Europe by Lorenzo Vidino

Author:Lorenzo Vidino [Vidino, Lorenzo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2009-08-12T04:01:00+00:00

And while the first team was made up of three British-born Muslims and a Jamaican convert, the "failed bombers" of July 21 were asylum seekers who obtained their residency permits and British passports through scams and irregularities. According to published reports, Mukhtar Said Ibrahim, the Eritrean man who allegedly placed a bomb on a double-decker bus on July 21, obtained a British passport even though he had spent several years in jail for mugging and knife possession. According to British law, a key condition for obtaining citizenship is that an applicant must be "of good character."85 Ibrahim and his three July 21 accomplices, all immigrants from war-torn East African countries who sought refuge in Britain in the 1990s, are also accused of having used multiple identities and nationalities to fool British immigration authorities. The Bank of England's official order to freeze the assets of the men shows that Ibrahim used six aliases, Osman Hussein had five, Mohammed Ramzi six, and Omar Yassin five.86 Naturally, once they fooled the nation's immigration laws, the men also took advantage of Britain's generous welfare system. Investigators believe that the four men collected more than £500,000 in state benefits since their arrival into the country.87

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