Omar Khyam

Omar Khyam
Omar Khyam
Born 1982 (age 28–29)
Arrested UK security official
Citizenship United Kingdom
Detained at Guantanamo
Alleged to be a member of al-Muhajiroun

Omar Khyam is a citizen of the United Kingdom, who led a terrorist plot.[1][2][3][4] He was trained in bomb-making at the Malakand training camp in Pakistan in 2001 or 2002. He was the ringleader of a plot to explode a fertilizer bomb in London.

References

  1. ^ "The jihadi house parties of hate: Britain’s terror network offered an easy target the security sevices missed, says Shiv Malik". The Times. 2007-05-06. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1752338.ece. Retrieved 2010-08-02. "Within weeks two of the most dangerous British-born jihadi terrorists — Mohammad Sidique Khan, leader of the 7/7 suicide bombers, and Omar Khyam, leader of the so-called Crevice gang — were learning to make bombs at Malakand. Details of the party were disclosed this weekend by one of the guests, Hassan Butt, a former associate of the Islamist radicals who has turned against violence."  mirror
  2. ^ Dominic Casciani (2007-06-14). "Jihadi diary: Inside the mind". BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6750911.stm. Retrieved 2010-08-03. "Two of the men who trained with Zeeshan are better known. Mohammad Sidique Khan was the ringleader of the 2005 7 July suicide bombers. The second was Omar Khyam, the now jailed head of a plot to detonate a massive fertiliser bomb in England." 
  3. ^ Richard Brennan (2008-06-24). "Khawaja excited by guns and rockets, court hears". Toronto Star. http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/448377. Retrieved 2010-08-03. "Khawaja went to the camp with Omar Khyam, a ringleader in the failed London bombing plot, for which Khawaja is an accused participant." 
  4. ^ "The five found guilty yesterday". The Guardian. 2007-05-01. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/may/01/politics.terrorism. Retrieved 2010-08-03. "Omar Khyam, 25, from Crawley, was drawn to radical Islam in his teens." 

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