Iranian asylum seeker from Newcastle encouraged German
terror cell to carry out mass casualty attack
The
Telegraph
June 15,
2020
An Iranian asylum seeker tried to incite a German terror cell to carry
out a mass attack by driving into a crowd and then hacking down the survivors
with a meat cleaver, a court has heard.
Fatah Abdullah, from Newcastle upon Tyne, also stockpiled bomb making
equipment to help arm his co-conspirators.
When police
raided his flat in the Arthur’s Hill area of the city in December 2018 they
discovered propaganda videos showing children beheading prisoners and
animations of lorries exploding at well known UK landmarks.
The 35-year-old Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) inspired
fanatic used the encrypted Telegram site to encourage to German based
terrorists, Omar Babek and Ahmed Hussein to carry out a bomb, vehicle and knife
attack.
In one message, he wrote: "After you have set off the explosions,
you target a crowd or group of people with your car, you drive through them.
"Find a
meat cleaver which is used by butchers, once you have run them over with the
car, get out of the car and start attacking them with it.
"If you
couldn't attack them with a car after the explosion, attack them with a knife,
sword or meat cleaver.
"The aim is that you kill them and make them feel terrified and
show them that (Islamic State), is here and Islam is here. The most important
thing is that you carry out the jihad.”
In order to
help facilitate the plot he bought 8,000 matches, explosive precursors,
fireworks, fuses and a remote control detonator, the Old Bailey heard.
The attack
was foiled in January last year when Hussein and Babek were arrested in the
northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein.
Abdullah, who had come to Britain in 2005 from Iran, had been arrested
by British police the month before.
His original
asylum claim had been rejected and in 2007 he was sectioned after becoming
mentally ill. His asylum was finally approved in 2010.
Following
his arrest, Abdullah attempted to explain away the bomb making equipment in his
flat, claiming the large quantity of sulphur was for growing flowers and an SAS
balaclava was to wear when it was cold.
He also told
police a pocket knife he had bought on Amazon was to cut grass for his rabbits
and a food mixer was to make pizza dough.
In March,
Abdullah pleaded guilty to inciting terrorism overseas and engaging in conduct
in preparation to assist others to commit terrorist acts.
Opening the
facts of the case on Monday, prosecutor Barnaby Jameson QC said: "Mohammed
Abdullah incited a terror cell, based in Germany, to commit terrorist
atrocities that would have caused mass fatalities.
"His
encouragement was not limited to words. He researched, obtained and tested
explosives in order to teach the German cell to carry out the terrorist attacks
to maximum effect.” Hussein and Babek pleaded guilty to the preparation of a
serious act of violent subversion involving unlawful handling of explosive
substances and were sentenced to four years and eight months in prison.
Abdullah is
expected to be sentenced at the Old Bailey on Friday.
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