Islamic State ‘plans new wave of terror attacks’ using ‘crocodile cells’, educated in the West, mentored by Jihad John

The devout Muslims who waged bloody war in Sri Lankan churches and hotels were educated in the West and mentored by infamous Western jihadi, Jihadi John.

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ISIS ‘plans new wave of UK and Europe terror attacks’ using ‘crocodile cells’, MI5 fears, after it emerged Sri Lankan bomb plot ringleader may have been radicalised by Jihadi John

• MI5 are reportedly investigating Isis plans to carry out new attacks in the UK
• Suicide bomber Abdul Lathief Jameel Mohamed travelled to Syria in 2014
• He was ‘mentored’ by group of British Isis fighters, including Jihadi John

By Jessica Green For Mailonline, 28 April 2019:

MI5 is investigating Isis plans to carry out a new wave of attacks across the UK and Europe using ‘crocodile cells’ made up of sleeper operatives.

It comes amid revelations that a ringleader of Sri Lanka’s Easter massacre was ‘mentored’ by a group of notorious British Isis fighters, including the killer known as Jihadi John, when travelling to Syria to prepare for the attacks.

Abdul Lathief Jameel Mohamed, 36, who is considered by western intelligence agencies to be one of the plot’s ringleaders, blew himself up at the Tropical Inn in Colombo on Easter Sunday.

Abdul Lathief Jameel Mohammed, one of eight Sri Lanka suicide attackers, was filmed on CCTV walking into the Tropical Inn guest house where he blew himself up

Mohammed was born in Sri Lanka but spent a year studying at Kingston University in south west London and also lived in Australia before returning to his home country
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Abdul Lathief Jameel Mohammed, one of eight Sri Lanka suicide attackers, was filmed on CCTV walking into the Tropical Inn guest house where he blew himself up

And now, experts fear the West could see more deadly ‘spectaculars’ as Isis, which claimed responsibility for the Sri Lanka attacks, switches tactics.

The terror group is said to be relying on regional cells to do its work following its military defeat in its Syria and Iraq strongholds earlier this year.

Mohamed was also ‘mentored’ by a group of notorious British Isis fighters, including the killer known as Jihadi John (pictured)

Police chiefs have urged churches and mosques in Britain to undertake counter-terrorism training over the fears of further attacks and far-right revenge plots.

It comes as security services scramble to find out any associates or signs of extremist activity during Mohamed’s time in Britain which could have encouraged him onto a journey of terrorism.

Following his studies in the UK and Australia, where it is thought he formed links with local extremists, Mohamed travelled to Syria to join the murderous Islamic State group in 2014.

Once in Syria, privately educated Mohamed is thought to have become a member of a Western cell within Isis called ‘the Legion’, which included among its members Mohamed Emwazi, also known as Jihadi John.

‘We’ve seen intelligence which connects him [Mohamed] to a number of British terrorists who were in Syria, as well as to Jihadi John and Junaid Hussain, around the time that Isis set up its caliphate,’ an intelligence source told The Sunday Times.

Police in Ampara show the explosives, chemicals and Islamic State flag they recovered from the site of one security force raid on Sunday

It comes amid revelations that Mohamed studied at Kingston University, south-west London, the same year a preacher (Shakeel Begg pictured) linked to Lee Rigby’s killers gave a speech promoting Jihad

‘The British jihadists seemed to be mentoring him through communication online and also when he travelled to Syria.’

It is likely Mohamed only remained in the war zone for a few months, although it remains unclear when he returned to Sri Lanka to become part of an Isis sleeper cell.

The Legion was set up to lure other English-speakers to the so-called caliphate and to encourage supporters in the West to carry out attacks.

Made up of around a dozen members, at least a third of whom were from the UK, the Legion included Junaid Hussain, a computer hacker from Birmingham, as well as Jihadi John and Neil Prakash, an Australian-born Buddhist converted to Islam.

The unit was killed in drone strikes, with one member Prakash jailed in Turkey last month after trying to flee the terror group’s territory.

The sister of British-educated Sri Lanka suicide bomber Mohamed (pictured as a school boy) has revealed how he became radicalised abroad and ended up ‘really angry and totally crazy’ – even telling off male relatives off for trimming their beards

Mohamed’s sister said her sibling lost a lot of his childhood innocence, becoming serious and withdrawn – adding ‘He would not even smile at anyone he didn’t know, let alone laugh.’

Charlie Winter, of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King’s College London, said: ‘Now that Isis has been defeated in Syria and Iraq, it will become more violent outside [this area].

‘It’s a grim outlook, but we are likely to see more attempts at attacks, more regularly, for the foreseeable future. Sri Lanka was not a one-off. If anything, it was a test run.’

On Friday, MI5 was investigating whether Mohamed had his first taste of extremism while studying at Kingston University from 2006-07.

He enrolled on an aerospace engineering degree at the Asian Aviation Centre in Sri Lanka, in which students spend their third and final year at Kingston University.

Aged 23, he arrived in the UK on January 1, 2006, and returned to Sri Lanka in September 2007. He also visited Britain in 2008.

During Mohamed’s first year in Surrey, hardline preacher Shakeel Begg, spoke at the university, telling students: ‘You want to make jihad? Very good… go to Palestine and fight the terrorists, fight the Zionists.’

Mohamed, one of six siblings, was from a wealthy tea trading family based near the central city of Kandy. He lived in this house in an upmarket part of Colombo which was raided on Monday

Begg is the imam at the Lewisham Islamic Centre, which was later attended by the killers of Fusilier Lee Rigby.

Kingston University said it condemned extremist activity ‘in the strongest terms’.

It is not known if Mohammed attended the speech or came into contact with Begg.

Mohammed’s sister, Samsul Hidaya, said that after he returned from his studies at Melbourne’s Swinburne University, he was a changed man.

‘My brother became deeply, deeply religious while he was in Australia,’ she said. ‘He was normal when he went to study in Britain, and normal when he came back.

‘But after he did his postgraduate in Australia, he came back to Sri Lanka a different man.

She said: ‘He had a long beard and had lost his sense of humour. He became serious and withdrawn and would not even smile at anyone he didn’t know, let alone laugh.’

Mohammed is thought to have been radicalised in Melbourne, after Kingston University. It is thought he formed links there with local jihadis who would go on to Syria to join IS.

He is believed to have botched his attempt to detonate his bomb at a five-star hotel and is thought to have blown himself up by accident at a much smaller guest house on Easter Sunday.

Mohammed tried to blow up the luxury Taj Samudra hotel (pictured) in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo on Easter Sunday

But he is believed to have botched his attempt to detonate his bomb at the five-star hotel and is thought to have blown himself up by accident at a much smaller guest house (pictured)

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Laurence Jarvik

5 years ago

UK appears up to its neck in jihad, Pam. Maybe time for US to end Intelligence cooperation, especially after Steele dossier anti-Trump operation? Find better partners against Fundamentalist Islam? What do you think?

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felix1999

5 years ago

Reply to  Laurence Jarvik

Eventually we will have to. P.M. May is letting CHINA handle their “none core” – LOL – intelligence.
Now WHY wouldn’t she use loyal UK IT people for that? You don’t outsource this to a COMMUNIST country. The “Five Eyes” (FVEY) refers to an alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. These countries are bound by the multilateral UKUSA Agreement for joint cooperation in signals intelligence, military intelligence, and human intelligence. May is determined to break lose of any US alliance slowly but surely in any form. She is a globalist.

May to Let China Build UK 5G Network, Damaging National Security, Anglosphere Co-operation
By Jack Montgomery
4/24/19

Theresa May appears set to approve Chinese participation in “non-core” elements of Britain’s 5G network via Huawei, delivering a blow to the Five Eyes security alliance of Anglosphere nations, reports suggest. British prime minister overrode the objections of Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson, Home Secretary Sajid Javid, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Trade Secretary Liam Fox, and International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt at a meeting of the National Security Council to allow Huawei, an allegedly employee-owned Chinese telecoms giant, to develop “non-core” infrastructure for the 5G network, according to The Telegraph.

Digital minister Margot James has pushed back on the reports somewhat, not denying that Huawei will be involved in 5G development, but claiming that “In spite of Cabinet leaks to the contrary, final decision yet to be made on managing threats to telecoms infrastructure.”
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The U.S. is keen that Five Eyes members do not involve Huawei in 5G development, as it could afford the Chinese Communist Party regime a back door to spy on their activities.

The Australian government agrees, warning that there are “serious concerns over Huawei’s obligations to the Chinese government and the danger that poses to the integrity of telecommunications networks in the U.S. and elsewhere”.
…
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/04/24/may-to-let-china-build-uk-5g-network-damaging-national-security-anglosphere-co-operation/

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MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet

5 years ago

Reply to  felix1999

I suppose I’d rather have the UK run by the PRC than the f’ing muslums.

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felix1999

5 years ago

Reply to  MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet

China is a bigger enemy than Russia. China is an economic powerhouse and has a large military. China is not our friend. China is busy taking over while we get distracted by Muslims. Yes Muslims are a cancer but China is being over looked. China is about to pass the U.S. is a super power. That is why Trump is working so hard to end the trade abuse. China knows the future belongs to technology. Muslims are savages and if we ever get serious, easily handled. Unfortunately we ill need more 9/11’s to get serious with Islam and Muslims.

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MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet

5 years ago

Reply to  felix1999

Well, I don’t exactly like the PRC, not after they helped facilitate the genocide of 2.5 million Hindus in Bangladesh. I do like how they treat their ‘indigenous’ muslum vermin though.

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R. Arandas

5 years ago

Reply to  felix1999

And many Muslim governments seem to be investing a lot in China’s projects, if they do ally, the consequences would be serious for the West!

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R. Arandas

5 years ago

Reply to  felix1999

Maybe Theresa is a Conservative in Name Only. 🙁

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Rose Dudley

5 years ago

They don’t need sleeper cells. European governments have welcomed back thousands of already trained and battle hardened jihadist. They have been given houses and welfare while the troops that fought them are on the streets.

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R. Arandas

5 years ago

Never forget, 84,000 lives were taken by Islamist violence in 2017 alone:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/islamist-extremism-caused-84000-deaths-worldwide-in-2017-a-new-report-says/

I wonder how many it will be for this year, 100,000 or more?

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Alleged-Comment

5 years ago

I thought the British BLEW up Jihadi John with a drone strike several years ago? His fat and grease sprayed all over the place?

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Donna Garland

5 years ago

Knew they wouldn’t give up that easily and we also knew they were placing their pawns in strategic positions around the world. Now it’s a waiting game and suicide watch for our innocent going to schools, universities, churches, concerts, work, catching public transport, our military and police and our nation in general!
Thank you to all those naive imbeciles who allowed these unstable psychopaths among us…idiots!

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Roma Mikhasev

5 years ago

ordinary islam

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jerrys

5 years ago

For 1400 years the moslems have been honing their techniques for taking over countries by using the combinations of jihad, political insurrection and migration.
Our Western Civilization is under heavy attack by islam and unless we realize we are at war and begin to exterminate the enemy we will be doomed to sharia enslavement.

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Norge4Nordmenn

5 years ago

Reply to  jerrys

THIS IS PRECISELY WHAT IS HAPPENING AND IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE FOR IT NOT TO HAVE BEEN KNOWN BY EUROPEAN POLITICIANS.

“We’ve got one that can see!“

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