A Somali man was on Saturday arrested in London on suspicion of involving in acts of terrorism near Olympic Games venue.The suspect who the British intelligence agency (MI5) alleged would
have been a suicide bomber was found repeatedly near the Olympic Games
venue.The alleged al-Qaeda militant was caught crossing through the Olympic
Park five times, breaking a ban imposed by the Home Secretary, The
Sunday Telegraph has learned.The 24 year-old man only named as CF has been under a control order
not to enter the multimillion pound development in Stratford, East
London, was arrested leading to fears he could have been carrying out a
reconnaissance mission for an attack at the park.The man previously tried to get to Afghanistan, allegedly for
terrorist training, and is suspected of fighting for the Somali Islamist
group Al-Shabaab, which has been responsible for thousands of deaths,
including those of Western aid workers. He is accused of trying to
recruit other Britons to its cause.The man, who is of Somali origin and known only as CF, appeared in
court last month charged with five breaches of the order after he
travelled across London on a train line which passes close to the
Olympic development.The Home Office says he is linked to a group of six British nationals
who received terror training from Saleh Nabhan, the Al Qaeda leader
killed in a raid by American Navy Seals in 2009.
Officials claim CF, who comes from a large family of Somali origin
from north London, attended a terrorist training camp and fought
alongside jihadis from the al-Qaeda group Al-Shabaab.
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Samantha Lewthwaite 'recruiting all-women terror squads'
Possible picture of Samantha Lewthwaite with unidentified man released by the Kenyan police
Lewthwaite, the widow of Jermaine Lindsay, one of the 7/7 bombers, fled Kenya's main coast city, Mombasa, last December after police stumbled upon a plot to attack tourist hotels with chemical bombs.
Despite an international hunt by British and Kenyan police and Interpol, the
28-year-old has not been seen since.
But according to a blog entry on a website used by the Muslim Youth Centre, a
radical Kenyan pro-jihadi movement, she is in Somalia
and has been connected to terror attacks in East Africa.
The entry, which is anonymous but appears to be written by a female
sympathiser in Tanzania, says that Lewthwaite is known in terror circles as "Dada
Mzungu", which means "white sister" in Swahili."More than five times our 'Dada Mzungu' has defeated the kuffar
[non-Muslims] in Kenya and Tanzania," she writes."She gave her life to Allah and she now serves Allah as His female
soldier. In +252 [Somalia] she commands her 'all-female mujahid terror
squad' and conducts her operations against the kuffar."Now every Muslim sister wants to be like our 'Dada Mzungu'.
Inshall'allah, I will join you."The blog entry goes on to say that "the kuffar calls her 'black widow'
but we call her Dada Mzungu tormentor of the kuffar." "She is one
of the many female Anmiyat ordained by Allah to torment the kuffar in East
Africa," it says."She came to Kenya to torment the kuffar and left the kuffar in a state
of "confused" [sic] as we say. The kuffar hunt her but still can't
find her for Allah protect His warriors."Kenyan police sources in Mombasa confirmed that according to their
intelligence, Lewthwaite was in southern Somalia, where she is being
protected by al-Shabaab, the country's militant Islamist army."We cannot say that she is connected to any terrorist attacks in Kenya,
but it is consistent with our information that she is with Shabaab in
Somalia," one senior anti-terror officer in Mombasa said."Even if she is there training people for jihad, she will find that we
are waiting for her here and she will not succeed."The fresh revelations came as details of a diary that Lewthwaite kept before
she fledKenya yesterday showed that she wanted her children to become "mujahid"
or holy warriors.The Daily Telegraph first revealed the existence of Lewthwaite's diary in
March.In it, she kept notes that appeared to be plans for a book about being the
wife of an Islamic holy warrior and how to stay true to plans for jihad and
not tell even your closest family.She said that she decided to continue with the book after seeing her husband,
Habib Saleh Ghani, also wanted by Kenyan police, talking to her children."He gave a talk to my eight-year-old son and five-year-old daughter. He
asked them what do you want to be when you are older? Both had many answers
but both agreed to wanting to be a Mujahid," she wrote, according to
The Mail on Sunday."He asked them how did they plan to achieve such a goal and what really
is a Mujahid? What makes someone a Mujahid? These are answers that only
those who have been living the path of Jihad would know." via The Daily Telegraph
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