Posted on 07/26/2005 6:24:15 AM PDT by Prince Charles
Suspect paid thousands in benefits 26 July 2005
One of the would-be suicide bombers who tried to blow up a London Tube train had been handed thousands of pounds in taxpayers' money.
Yasin Hassan Omar, 24, was given £75 a week in housing benefit to pay for the one-bedroom flat where he has been the registered tenant since February 1999.
His housing benefit stopped in May but he may have been given up to £24,000 over the last five years.
The flat, on the ninth floor of a 12-storey tower block in New Southgate, north London, is believed to have been used as a bomb factory by the suicide team who unsuccessfully targeted the London transport network last Thursday.
Explosives experts were examining material found inside.
Neighbours said another suspected bomber Muktar Said-Ibrahim, 27, had also been staying at the flat.
And they described seeing men lugging boxes into the flat only a few weeks ago. The men said the boxes contained wallpaper stripper.
Police have spoken to Ibrahim's father, who lives in north west London, as they look into the background of the bombers, but he has not been arrested.
Home Office officials were trying to establish the immigration status of Omar and Ibrahim who are both thought to be of east African origin. The cordon around their tower block flat was widened and police were searching lock-up garages nearby.
Detectives now fear there were five would-be suicide attackers on July 21. Devices were found on a number 26 bus and on Tube trains at Warren Street, Shepherd's Bush and Oval. The fifth bomb was dumped on open ground at Little Wormwood Scrubs, west London, suggesting that the final member of the suicide team may have lost his nerve.
Ah yes... over here they go to places like Home Depot and tell the clerks they're repairing something like an outdoor grill, and need igniters and timing devices...
Goes back to the philosophy of islam - they will destroy us by exploiting our freedoms and socialism. We've given them the rope to hang us with and will never take it away. No one wants to hear muslims crying their eyes out about discrimination and profiling.
So in other words, the British taxpayer paid 25k pounds to blow up those trains and kill those 50 people.
That's a socialist/multi-culti civilization for ya. forget about need. If theres a hand out, fill it with money.
Thanks if its yours
I have a black screen. :)
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