Where did the money come from? What was he planning to do with it? From the TimesOnline, with thanks to Jeffrey Imm:
A SUICIDE bomber who killed eight people at Aldgate Tube station on July 7 left £121,000.The origins of Shehzad Tanweer’s riches are unknown as the 22-year-old terrorist worked part time at his family’s chip shop in Beeston, Leeds.
The figure of £121,000 is the net value of his estate after loans, debts and funeral costs were paid....It also emerged that the bomber’s father, Mohammed Muntaz Tanweer, has applied for a letter of administration to take over his son’s estate.
I hope the bombers' victims and the state are able to relieve Mr. Tanweer's father of the burden of distributing the £121,000. Actually, perhaps dad, having sent his son to "camp" in Pakistan, should be held liable as well.
Amercian dads --- at least the non-Moslem ones --- send their kids to sports camps. I'm sending mine to a baseball camp in Orlando over spring break. Allahu Baseball!
Moslem dads, say Mr. Mohammed Abdul Sayeed down your street, sends his kid to Jihad camp (i.e., hate-murder camp) over in Pakistan. Allahu Akbar!
Are the tabloids looking into this? Does the UK still have infamous doorstep blocking journalists such as Roger Cook.
He would stand at the guy's door screaming into the letterbox.
"Mr Tanweer, don't you think you should be giving that money to the families of those innocent people your fanatical son murdered?"
Followed of course by a scuffle after which Roger Cook would stand in front of the camera, his shirt collar ripped:
"It appears that Mr Tanweer, after his appaling dereliction of duty as a father, shares none of the feelings of shame, a normal human being would feel"
Where can one find out more about Roger Cook?
Within a week of the 7/7 bombings some people were trying to find other things to blame other than Islam. One excuse that was trundled out was poverty.
Are the tabloids looking into this? Does the UK still have infamous doorstep blocking journalists such as Roger Cook.
The Sun is pre-occupied with Celebrity Big Brother. George Galloway is on it.
What's not to hate.
Roger Cook used to do a show called "The Cook Report", exposing conmen of all kinds. He and/or his camera crew nearly always ended up getting beaten up. It became something of a joke. The show was parodied by - I think - Chris Morris. This had Roger Cook asking some co-operative conman to beat him up to make it more interesting. He hasn't been on for a few years. Some other bloke with a Scottish name was on for a while doing something similar, but he wasn't any good.
Elephant:
Well, of course they're poor. All of their resources have to be spent on jihad.
Oh, and look how much the gorgeous one is costing the British taxpayer. Granny W, etc, are you reading this? Not a tax, a jizya. We're paying his salary, so he can earn money on Big Brother that he then gives to the "needy Palestinians".
A 22-year-old. Leaving close to a quarter of a million dollars. That's a lot for a part-time worker in a fish-and-chips shop.
It was his tip money.
Waterdragon,
Thanks, that's my best laugh of the day.
Might it be possible that the fish & chip shop was a money laundering joint?
Elephant:
How I wish we had better things (less painful at least) to joke about. The beyond sad fact of the matter is that the main reason most middle eastern countries are in the desparate state they are in is because of jihad. Look at tiny, beseiged Israel -- a leading light in biotechnology, and not only as applied to treating and rehabilitating victims of terror vs its petroleum-rich neighbours.
Re: the fish & chip shop being a money-laundering operation. Always possible, especially as it's likely a "cash" operation. The best tip-off would be whether there were any begging jars for the usual "charities" on the counter. You know... ...like the Holy Land Fund or any other organization that is collecting aid money for Palestinian "orphans".
Hi Interested, I read something similar this afternoon (I was on a read only no post computer in darkest commutorland) that he was hoping to raise money for paypal, sorry interpal. The last time I loked at the BBC "Have your Say" on the subject most comments were about his dereliction of duty to the taxpayer and constituents.
Back to the main story there is, or was, good money in fish and chips, although I would have expected the family elders to have held the purse strings. I sent this item to the team last week http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4576346.stm about how the London bombs were so cheap to make £2/300 that they think they were financed out of Mohammad Sidique Khan's wages as a classroom assistant. As Silvester and I discussed yesterday in the Adrian Marriot inquest thread it would indeed be satisfactory if the bereaved families, or some injured and traumatised survivors succeeded in a civil action against their estates.
Off thread again there is also a topic on BBC "Have your Say" about Ariel Sharon where quite a few well recommended posts in support of Israel (including mine) were removed this morning. I don't think the moderator removes the posts she doesn't like until and unless they get a certain number of recommendations. They try to pretend up to that point that this is a minority view.
The figure of £121,000 is the net value of his estate after loans, debts and funeral costs were paid...
If the authorities don't get to the bottom of that, they're certifiably smoking crack.
From Tim Blair:
UPDATE from an English government insider:
I don’t believe that Shehzad Tanweer ever had assets of over £120,000.
This is just a guess, but what probably happened was that the senior members of the family will have bought two or three terrace houses in Beeston or Holbeck or Wortley or wherever and registered them in the name of Shehzad Tanweer at the Land Registry. This sort of manoeuvre means that the “beneficial owners" can hide behind the “legal ownership” of whoever is on the register.
This is useful for tax purposes and also for fiddling Housing Benefit payments where members of the same extended family rent each other’s houses (although I am certainly not suggesting this happened in this case). This normally works well but if the “legal owner” unexpectedly vaporises himself the “beneficial owners” have to go to the inconvenience and expense of going to the Probate Court to get their hands back on their property.
Despite Beeston being near the bottom end of the Leeds housing market, terrace properties can still sell for around £90,000.
http://timblair.net/
Silvester
That sounds very likely.
Silvester:
Nonetheless, Tanweer's family could find that the estate is liable to the extent of its seizable assets.
He needed walking round money to spend on the virgins.
The simple fact that the father of the terrorist wants to keep the money for himself - instead of donating it to the victims and to the families of those killed in the bombings - speaks volumes.
Where is the media outrage? Its silence is deafening.
Just wanted to agree with those who said that Tanweer's "estate" should go to the bombing victims.
Doesn't Britain have the equivalent of the American Internal Revenue Service (IRS)?
Seems to me that this unusual estate would be investigated and such investigation would extend to the immediate family members as well - since the father of Shehzad Tanweer paid for his son's 'camp' adventure in Pakistan - poverty appears unlikely.
Certainly, the estate should be divided among the victim's families.
OT -
Notice how the sermon in DC doesn't conceal or confuse the Qur'an with PC nonsense . . .
Friday Khutbah: The Qur'an Says Zionist Israel Will Be Shattered The Israeli Zionists have convinced themselves that their presence in Palestine is permanent. They have even managed to deceive world public opinion into believing this myth. The brainwashing that has gone into this effort is phenomenal.
http://www.jihadunspun.com/intheatre_internal.php?article=105728&list=/home.php
jihadunspun.com - West Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
... The writer of the original article is Imam Mohammed Al-Asi, the elected Imam of Muslims in Washington DC. Oringally published by the Street Mimbar. ...
Granny Weatherwax, congratulations! At least your comment was posted. I have never succeeded in getting mine visible on BBC website for a split of a second. Perhaps I choose the wrong subjects - i.e. Turkey's accession to the EU. Every time I make the cardinal mistake of watching "Question Time" and reaching the point of explosion I rush to the computer and give vent to my soaring anger I only get disappointed, though at least those dhimmis at BBC get the message! The Polish Daily's (Gazeta Wyborcza) online edition allows readers to discuss the topic on the forum. The moderator intervenes only when the very last frontiers of parlamentarism are crossed, no other type of censorship is applie. I curse sometimes the complete lack of inhibition on the part of the internauts, their foul, abusive language, but now I realise how lucky we are to be able to enjoy this sort of freedom of speech.Hmmmm...here it seems to be quite contrary...Scary.
It is quite possible that he had not shared the money with the rest of his murdering buddies, as most jihad murderers, in a well organised plot, are paid upwards of $25,000 U.S. dollars [or more] for such a "mission." Generally, they are paid directly, so he should not have been holdoing the other's money; but this is murder-for-hire-money, so the rules might be different. The money, by the way, is given to entice [these activists] because their family is poor; in giving their lives [by being murderers], their family earns $25,000, the likes of which most of them will never see - let alone at one time.
The really sad part of this story: our G.I.'s pay for their own protective gear [many of them do] and their families are not given anything like $25,000 when they die. Those who are reservists [most of them in Iraq are], have their wives working while they serve because there is no supplemental income for their "mission" ... and these are the good guys, not murderers-for-hire. Shame. Shame.
It's obvious the money was transferred via a Swiss bank account from Al Qaida funds. The account should be immediately frozen and investigated.