Danika Fears and Natalie
Musumeci
The terrorist behind the London rampage was identified as Abu Izzadeen [photo], a radical Muslim
cleric who’s been convicted of inciting terrorist acts in England, law
enforcement sources told The Independent.
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Izzadeen, a well-known
Islamist extremist formerly known as Trevor Brooks, was born to Jamaican
parents in the UK and converted to Islam when he was 17, according to The Guardian.
In January 2016, Izzadeen —
who was killed by cops Wednesday — and another Islamist militant were sentenced
to two years in prison for breaching the Terrorism Act by leaving the UK
without notifying the police, the BBC reported.
They were found on a train in
Hungary that was headed for Bucharest, Romania, in Nov. 2015.
In 2008, he was convicted of
inciting terrorist acts and funding terrorism after giving hate-filled speeches
at the Regents Park mosque in London.
A 2014 Live Leak video shows
activists of the “British First Defence Force” clashing with Izzadeen and
notorious hate preacher Anjem Choudary as they walk down the street during a
protest in London.
“That was Abu Izzadeen – a man
who says he wants to die as a suicide bomber,” an activist says to the camera.
Izzadeen often condemned the
US on his Twitter account, according to the Counter Extremism Project.
“#texasattack the USA is a
crusader nation at war with the believers they worship the cross we worship the
one who created the prophet Jesus,” he wrote in May 2015, after the attack
outside a Prophet Mohammed cartoon contest in Garland, Texas.
He once told the BBC that the
terrorists behind the 2005 London suicide bombings should “be praised widely.”
Danika Fears and Natalie Musumeci, NewYork Post, 22-3-2017
The man responsible for the terrorist attack in Westminster has been named by police as Khalid Masood.
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