The London Bombings by Marc Sageman

Author:Marc Sageman [Sageman, Marc]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, Terrorism, Security (National & International)
ISBN: 9780812251180
Google: nw2EDwAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 41882620
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2019-03-01T00:00:00+00:00

The Perpetrators’ Love Lives

On 20 June, Lindsay was practicing boxing at a community center in Aylesbury. A 17-year-old girl named Nicki noticed he was interested in her and they exchanged phone numbers. He told her his name was Tyrone. He picked her up outside her home late that evening and drove for an hour. When he dropped her off, he kissed her and arranged to meet during the day. He took her to a shopping center. He asked her whether she could get hold of a gun for him. He said “he was going to London with some of his mates to teach some people a lesson. . . . It was to do with drugs,” Nicki later recalled. There was something wrong with his gun but she told him she could not help him. “We drove the rest of the way home in uncomfortable silence and he turned the music on.”152 He saw her again the next day and he read to her poems praising al Qaeda and Islam. Three days later, on 25 June, she saw him cash a check and receive a phone call, which made him very agitated. He told her that he had to go and drove her back home. “He tried to control his temper and said he needed to prepare himself. I asked him what did he need to prepare himself for, and he said ‘shooting the people who need to be taught a lesson in London.’ ” The call was from Sidique, who had just received a call from Rauf in Pakistan.153 Nothing more is known about it.

On 28 June, Sidique, Tanweer, and Lindsay were captured on CCTV at Luton station around 8:10 AM. They bought tickets and boarded a train to King’s Cross station in London, arriving at 8:55 AM. They were photographed together again at Baker Street station around midday and again at King’s Cross at 12:50 PM. They returned to Luton, arriving at approximately 1:40 PM. A chart of times taken to travel between stations was later found among Lindsay’s belongings. Other tickets were also found at the bomb factory, suggesting other visits to London dating back to mid-March.154

The next day, Lindsay called Nicki and told her he had to lie low. He texted her that he suffered a minor wound in his back but had not fired his gun. They continued their texting and on 1 July she wrote that she did not want to lose him because she had started to have feelings for him.155

In the weeks before the bombings, Lindsay made a number of purchases with overdrawn checks. Bank investigators visited his home on the day after the bombings. His wife later told the authorities that he had spent less time at home lately, and when he was home, he locked himself away in the computer room. Shortly before the bombings, she had allegedly confronted him about text messages she discovered on his cell phone, apparently from a girlfriend, and threw him out of the house.156

Meanwhile Tanweer texted his girlfriend and asked her to spend the night with him.

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