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Two students are facing long jail sentences after being convicted of plotting a drive-by shooting inspired by so-called Islamic State. Suhaib Majeed, 21, of west London, was convicted of conspiracy to murder and preparation of acts of terrorism. Ringleader Tarik Hassane, 22, of west London, had admitted the same charges. Two men who provided a gun were cleared of conspiracy to murder and preparing terrorist acts by an Old Bailey jury, but admitted firearms offences. Nyall Hamlett, 25, and Nathan Cuffy, 26, had admitted their role in handing over a gun to Majeed and Hassane but denied knowing what it was going to be used for. The trial heard that Hassane, a medical student who split his time between London and university in Sudan, was immersed in extremist ideology and aspired to kill in London months before the IS group urged supporters in the West to carry out such attacks. He turned to his childhood friend, Majeed, to help him put the plan into action - and the pair communicated secretly through social media apps. Majeed agreed to get a gun and moped for the attack. Hamlett, a known criminal, supplied the weapon to Majeed after first acquiring it from Cuffy. Hamlett and Cuffy admitted supplying the gun - but denied knowing about the terror plot and were cleared of conspiracy to murder and preparation of acts of terrorism. When Majeed, Hamlett and Cuffy were arrested in September 2014, Hassane was out of the country - but he later came home to continue his planning. When he was eventually arrested, police discovered he had been carrying out online surveillance of west London's Shepherd's Bush police station and a nearby Territorial Army base with the help of Google Maps.
Neighbors, it turns out, put up this homemade sign after a series of drive-by shootings at the house.
Apparently, the house has been targeted every few nights since Christmas and is now riddled with more than two dozen bullet holes, the result of five drivebys so far.
On Sunday night, even after the sign went up, the situation escalated.
A car parked in front of the house was blown up.
originally posted by: gladtobehere
Wait, I thought guns were illegal in the UK? Meh, it was probably supplied by the government "informant".
originally posted by: gladtobehere
I think Americans may have actually invented the drive-by-shooting
originally posted by: queenofswords
IMO, they aren't British.
"Mr Hassane had traveled to London to spend Eid with his family from Sudan (an East African country), where he is a medical student, hence the nickname. He was due to return to Sudan in a few days."
originally posted by: paraphi
originally posted by: queenofswords
IMO, they aren't British.
Well, this article in CAGE.
CAGE - if you don't know - is "... an independent advocacy organisation working to empower communities impacted by the War on Terror", to quote the About Us.
"Mr Hassane had traveled to London to spend Eid with his family from Sudan (an East African country), where he is a medical student, hence the nickname. He was due to return to Sudan in a few days."
Yep, very British!
CAGE
He was born in the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea to a Moroccan mother and a Saudi father, a diplomat from Riyadh who moved on from his job in London and took his wife and younger son with him. It is understood Hassane was brought up by his aunt, with whom he lived on a council estate in West London along with his younger sister. He also probably knew the man who was to become executioner Jihadi John. Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk... blood-streets-Britain.html#ixzz43lxSSCEg Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook