Posted on 09/09/2009 5:03:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Like other Britons convicted of plotting violence in the name of al-Qaida, there was little to mark Abdulla Ahmed Ali as a potential terrorist.
The UK-based ringleader of the airlines plot had led a life of little note until his conviction for planning to explode bombs on seven transatlantic planes, in Britain's biggest terrorist conspiracy.
Ali was born in Newham, east London, in 1980 and a year later his parents returned to their native Pakistan before returning to Britain in 1987. He was the fourth of eight children born to parents who had aspirations for their offspring. All bar one brother made it to university.
One of Ali's brothers works as a probation officer; another has worked for London Underground.
He went to school in Walthamstow, where he met two of his fellow accused, Arafat Khan and Ibrahim Savant, neither of whom were convicted. One source said of Ali that his peers described him as well- read and some thought him charismatic.
He would boast in his martyrdom video of dreaming of giving his life to jihad since the age of 16. While at school he came into contact with the Islamic missionary group, Tablighi Jamaat, which he described in court as "boy scouts in a religious environment". The group denies encouraging extremism and stresses it is purely peaceful. Ali gained a place at City University, London, where he graduated with a degree in computer systems engineering in September 2002. He struggled to hold down a job and had a couple of part time jobs.
He began working for the Islamic Medical Association charity with his older brother, Dawood, and Ibrahim Savant. In late 2002 Ali travelled to Pakistan, he said, to help refugees fleeing the US attack on the Taliban at refugee camps on the Afghan border.
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He's a Muslim, yes?
Isn't that enough?
"Isn't that enough? "
Yup.
Every Muslim is either a jihadist or a sleeper jihadist.
They can be radicalized by being cornered into proving whether they are truly Muslim by following the Islamic Trilogy and the example of Muhammad, Poop Be Upon Him.
"Peaceful" Muslim is synonymous with wishy washy Muslim, no matter how devout they may appear with their prayers, mosque attendance, tent attire, etc.
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