Yet another convert to Islam somehow gets the crazy notion that the religion that every last non-Muslim politician in the Western world assures us is peaceful and tolerant somehow obligates him to commit violence to nonbelievers. Authorities remain completely indifferent to this recurring phenomenon.
“EXCLUSIVE: British Muslim convert described as ‘global terrorist’ who kept mortar bombs handbook is still too dangerous to be released from jail,” by Andy Gardner, MailOnline, March 18, 2023:
A British Muslim convert described as a ‘global terrorist’ who kept handbooks on how to fire mortar bombs and a secret terrorism code is still too dangerous to be released from jail, a parole board has decided.
Andrew Rowe, who took the Muslim name Yusef Abdullah, was sentenced to 15 years in September 2005 after being found guilty of possessing items that could be used in terror attacks.
The trial at the Old Bailey was told that Rowe, from west London, had the terrorist paraphernalia hidden at homes linked to him in London and Birmingham.
That sentence was reduced on appeal to 10 years in prison.
Rowe was released from jail in 2010 and made the subject of a 15-year notification order.
He was told in March 2019 of a new obligation to give details of all vehicles used by him following a change in legislation.
It followed a series of terror attacks involving the use of vehicles as weapons in Britain and abroad.
In August 2019, he was employed by Serco to drive bin lorries, but concealed the vehicles he was driving from the police, which he had an obligation to report under a terrorist notification order.
In July 2021, he was handed a 10-month sentence at the Old Bailey after pleading guilty to failing to notify police about the use of four different vehicles on nine occasions between August 15 and September 27, 2019 after passing his heavy good vehicle test.
Rejecting a non-custodial sentence, Judge Angela Rafferty QC said: ‘You, a terrorist offender, drove a heavy goods vehicle in this city without notifying the police you were doing so.’
She added: ‘You clearly knew what your notification requirements were, and this had been reiterated to you. This was a deliberate decision not to notify.’
Last year, Rowe, now 51, became eligible for his first parole hearing since being recalled. Under terrorism legislation introduced in 2020, his case was referred to the Parole Board for consideration.
The Parole Board rejected his appeal after the three-person panel read his prison dossier. He did not personally appear or give evidence to the panel.
Rowe will now have to wait until 2024 to apply again to be released from prison….
Rowe was detained by police on the French side of the Channel Tunnel in 2003 when traces of explosives were found on socks he was carrying.
Raids on his homes uncovered a handwritten guide to firing battlefield weapons, a coded sheet, videos of the 9/11 atrocities and tapes of Osama bin Laden.
He had used the names of specific models of Nokia mobile phones as code for words and phrases such as ‘airline crew’ ‘explosives’ and ‘army base’.
Rowe was also known to have met terrorism suspect Lionel Dumont, who was convicted in December 2005 of participating in armed robberies in France in 1996. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Dumont, an Islamic convert, fought in Bosnia, and was involved in a plot to bomb a gathering of leaders of the Group of Seven industrial nations in France in 1996.
He also spent years raising money for Al Qaeda and organising cells in Europe and Asia.
Rowe was returning from meeting Durmont in Frankfurt when he was stopped by French police.
The court heard his socks carried traces of TNT, plastic explosives PETN and RDX and nitro-glycerine.
The prosecution claimed they were probably used to clean the barrel of a mortar or as a muzzle protector.
Rowe claimed the socks – which were bound with cord – were used during martial arts training and that the explosive material was picked up during a humanitarian visit to Bosnia in 1995.
The jury was told that Rowe, of Maida Vale, west London, travelled extensively after converting to Islam, including to places of conflict, and had gained four passports in seven years.
A search of his former flat in west London in August 2003 unearthed a WH Smith notebook with 22 pages of handwritten notes on how to aim and fire a mortar….
He said he agreed to be an aid ‘courier’ after being asked by someone at a mosque in west London….
Rowe told the jury he became a Muslim in the 1990s after a drug-fuelled conversation at a rave and converted at the Central mosque in Regent’s Park, London, an event which ‘put meaning into my life’….
gravenimage says
UK: Man converts to Islam, keeps handbooks on mortar bombs, considered ‘too dangerous’ to release from prison
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Another fine convert to the “religion of peace”. Glad at least to see that British authorities are not unleashing this thug on the public.
Keith O says
If anyone is the poster child for the argument for life in prison, with hard labour and no parole, this is him!
the simple fact that the Brit police actually did their job is nothing short of amazing.
Phil Copson says
Here’s hoping they jail his mate “Serco Bin Lorry” too…..