A MAN who dubbed himself "Osama bin London" was found guilty of organising extremist training camps and soliciting murder by a British court.
| The logistics of organizing an extremist training camp would seem to require a certain number of dollars or pounds or euros or whatever. Wonder where they came from? |
Pupils of Mohammed Hamid, 50, included some of the men later convicted of being involved in failed bomb attacks on the London public transport system on July 21, 2005.
The verdict against him came after a four-month trial at the high security Woolwich Crown Court in south-east London. Prosecutors said Hamid wanted to send recruits for training in Afghanistan and east Africa and that he boasted his name was "Osama bin London" - a play on the name of the al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
| Really? Hey, that's pretty witty! |
He was arrested on London's Oxford Street shopping district in 2004.
Kibley da Costa, 25; Mohammed Al-Figari, 45; and Kader Ahmed, 20, were found guilty of attending terror camps and of other terrorist offences. Two other members of the cell, Mohammed Kyriacou, 19, and Yassin Mutegombwa, 23, admitted attending terrorist training camps at a separate court hearing. |