'Terror leader set up murder plan'
CHRIS GREENWOOD AND ANNA FORD THE leader of a group linked to terrorist training camps at which some of the 21 July bombers were pupils has admitted soliciting murder, a court heard yesterday. Atilla Ahmet was the alleged emir, or leader, of five men who went on trial yesterday accused of terrorist offences. <http://c.casalemedia.com/c?s=82721&f=4&id=0> The extremist preacher boasted that CNN labelled him "the number one of al-Qaeda in Europe", Woolwich Crown Court in London heard. One of those on trial, Mohammed Hamid, 50, once told police his name was "Osama bin London" and threatened to blow them up. He made the comments after being arrested with the 21/7 ringleader, Muktar Said Ibrahim, in 2004. David Farrell, QC, prosecuting, told the court that Hamid was Ahmet's "partner in terrorist conversion". Mr Farrell described some of the 21/7 bombers as Hamid's "pupils", after they attended trips and meetings at his home. He said: "The prosecution do not suggest that Hamid's role in seeking to train and influence those who took part in 21/7 was the only training or influence they received. "The prosecution's case is that Hamid, assisted by Ahmet, was a recruiter, groomer and corrupter of young Muslims. "His purpose was to convert such men to his own fanatical and extreme beliefs and, having given them such a foundation, thereby enabled them to move on to join others in the pursuit of 'jihad' by acts of terrorism." Ahmet's guilty plea to three counts of soliciting murder last month can now be revealed after reporting restrictions were lifted. Secretly recorded conversations featuring him are a key part of the trial. The jury heard evidence of a number of links between the five defendants and the four 21/7 failed bombers. Just hours after the 7 July bombings in which 52 people died, Hamid sent a text message to one of them, Hussain Osman. Two weeks later, Osman and three other men would go on to try to blow themselves up on the London transport network. Hamid ran "military-style" training camps and paintballing trips across the UK and held regular Friday meetings at his east London home, it was said. The prosecution claims that he used them to encourage his young Muslim followers to murder kuffars - non-believers. Many of the meetings were secretly recorded after MI5 planted a bug at his home in late 2005. Later, an agent also infiltrated the group. During one conversation, Hamid spoke of "six or seven atrocities" before the 2012 Olympics, Mr Farrell said. Hamid, of Clapton, east London, is on trial alongside four other men. They are Mousa Brown, 41, of Walthamstow, east London; Kibley da Costa, 24, of West Norwood, south-east London; Mohammed al-Figari, 42, of Tottenham, north London; and Kader Ahmed, 20, of Plaistow, east London. All five deny a range of terrorism charges. The court was also told there was evidence that Brown was also training people. At one meeting he was recorded praising the actions of the 7/7 suicide bombers, responding "yeah, yeah, yeah", when someone called them the "fantastic four", the jury heard. The jury heard phone calls and text messages were exchanged between Hamid and Ibrahim, Osman and the two other 21/7 bombers, Ramzi Mohammed and Yassin Omar. The trial continues. 'LYRICAL TERRORIST' A HEATHROW Airport worker who called herself the "lyrical terrorist" wrote of how she "longed to go for martyrdom", a court heard yesterday. British-born Samina Malik, 23, an "unlikely" terrorism supporter, penned poems entitled How To Behead and The Living Martyrs, an Old Bailey jury was told. Police discovered a "library" of documents related to terrorism in her bedroom in Southall, west London, her trial heard. One document in her handwriting read: "The desire within me increases every day to go for martyrdom, the need to go increases second by second." Jonathan Sharp, prosecuting, told a jury Malik liked to be known as the "lyrical terrorist" or "a stranger awaiting martyrdom". He said: "She is a committed Islamic extremist, who supports terrorism and terrorists. "She had a library of material she had collected for terrorist purposes. That collection would be extremely useful for someone planning terrorist activity." Malik was arrested in October 2006 after an e-mail from her was found on another person's computer. When her bedroom was searched, police found a ringbinder full of documents as well as a bracelet bearing the word "jihad". Malik denies possessing articles and records for terrorist purposes. 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