Posted on 08/12/2006 10:20:58 AM PDT by Grendel9
12 August 2006 LONDON - A taxi driver, pizza delivery man, accountant and student. The 23 people in British custody Saturday over an alleged aircraft bomb plot are ordinary people leading seemingly ordinary lives.
Some are family men with young children, others have pregnant wives. To relax they play football or watch cricket, live in unremarkable suburbs or commuter towns and pray at the local mosque, according to reports.
But the apparently unexceptional men are at the centre of an extraordinary alleged plot that has once again focused minds here on the possible existence and extent of Islamic extremism within multi-cultural Britain.
In a headline, Britain’s right-of-centre Daily Mail newspaper called them ‘The middle-class ‘plotters’’, focusing on Don Stewart-Whyte, the son of an agent for Britain’s main opposition Conservative party and a sports teacher.
Art student Stewart-Whyte, 20, is also the half-brother of former model Heather Stewart-Whyte, who was once married to the French tennis star Yannick Noah, newspapers reported.
The suspect—who is white and from a Christian family in the leafy London commuter belt of High Wycombe—is said to have converted to Islam about six months ago, marrying a Muslim woman and changing his name to Abdul Waheed.
Two of the other men arrested there—Shazad Khuram Ali, 27, and taxi driver Waseem Kayani, 29 -- were said to be his friends.
Of the others arrested in High Wycombe, one was British-born West Indian Brian Young, also said to have been born into a devout Christian family and who changed his name to Umar Islam three years ago.
The 28-year-old reportedly became a postman on leaving school and is understood to have a son with his wife Theresa, the Daily Mail said.
Four of the six arrested in High Wycombe worked in the car export business: the firm was run by Shazad Khuram Ali, who employed his younger brother and Amjad Sarwar, a 28-year-old who loved cricket. Sarwar’s brother Assad was also detained.
Another Muslim convert, Oliver or Ibrahim Savant, 25, is an accountant. He is being held with his heavily pregnant nursery teacher wife Atkia Sidyot after being arrested at their home in Walthamstow, east London.
Savant—whose childhood friends Waheed Zaman, 22, Assan Abdullah Khan, 21, and computer salesman Waheed Arafat Khan, 25, are also under arrest—is reportedly the son of an Iranian-born architect and an English-born bookkeeper.
Zaman is a biomedical science student at London’s Metropolitan University, where he was president of the Islamic Society, who has ambitions to be a doctor or forensic scientist, according to his sister.
Friends and family of the student told The Independent newspaper he was a ‘typical British lad’, who liked nothing better than watching football.
No, they were not all ordinary people. They were ALL MUSLIMS!!!
The more we are learning about all the details the scarier this gets, not that it wasn't in the first place. Ordinary people, just like you n' me, except they want to kill mass numbers of people in the name of their (insert foul word here) religion.
How about biochemistry student and "all-access" airport worker?
Is there a reason these two "occuppations" are left out of the article?
I hate the MSM!!
More detail of the individuals found here:
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1172572006
How about biochemistry student and "all-access" airport worker?
Is there a reason these two "occuppations" are left out of the article?
I hate the MSM!!
Indeed they are ALL Muslims!
No one wants to talk about that.
What the U.S. needs to do is STOP ALL IMMIGRATION.
Ideally legal or otherwise.
Just halt it and review what we ALLOW in this country and make it tougher to get in here. Next fine the HELL out of EMPLOYERS who insist on breaking the immigration laws to hire ILLEGALS. If you don't take the PROFIT out of hiring them, they'll keep coming.
That does seem to be the one thing they all had in common.
while I agree with you how the heck do you target a white convert.
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