A terrorist who helped would-be bombers prepare an attack on London's transport network has been spotted travelling on the capital's buses and tubes.
Siraj Yassin Abdullah Ali, who helped clean up the bomb factory used by the 21/7 terrorist gang, was seen on a bus and going into Willesden Green Tube station in north west London.
The 35-year-old was jailed for nine years in 2008 but released on bail early. He cannot be deported.
The sight of the Eritrean being able to move freely about the capital he intended to attack will anger all Londoners and in particular all those who lost friends and family in the 7/7 bombings a fortnight earlier.
The Home Office contested his release and today expressed disappointment with the court's judgement.
Ali is the foster brother of Yassin Omar and close friends with Muktar Said Ibrahim who both orchestrated a failed terrorist attack on the capital on July 21, 2005. All the bombs created by the gang failed to explode.
The failed plot came just two weeks after 52 people travelling on London's buses and tubes were killed by the 7/7 bombers.
Ali was living in the same block of flats in north London as his foster brother at the time of the attack. The terrorists had turned Omar's eighth-floor flat, in Curtis House, New Southgate, into a bomb factory and the group would escape to Ali's home when the fumes created during their bomb-making experiments, became over-whelming.
Jailed for 9 years in 2008, now out. Not sent back to his own country, living in a council house and on benefits.
The UK is fucking mad.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Obviously he would have been serving some of that 9 year sentence out on supervision. Only 3 years in custody on a 9 year sentence appears pretty light (in Canada, one would generally have to serve at least two thirds of a sentence behind bars, I don't know what the usual practice would be in the UK). As to why he can't be deported, was he already a citizen prior to committing the crime?
"Hang on while I log in to the James Webb telescope to search the known universe for who the fuck asked you." -- James Fell
He's released on bail, so he is supervised. I'm assuming he will serve the remainder of the 9 years on probation?
Anyway, they probably needed to make room for all those rioters, eh?
Here in Montana a prisoner must serve only 1/3 of a prison sentence before becoming eligible to apply for supervised release - however the Parole Board still must approve that release, and something tells me a terrorist plotter - if we had one - wouldn't be getting early release.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
