Omar Khyam Explained
Omar Khyam is a citizen of the United Kingdom, who led a terrorist plot in 2004.[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. He was moved to HM Prison Full Sutton, near York, in March 2008.[5]
References
- News: The jihadi house parties of hate: Britain’s terror network offered an easy target the security services missed, says Shiv Malik . . 2007-05-06 . 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. . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20110629110221/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1752338.ece . 2011-06-29.
- News: Jihadi diary: Inside the mind. BBC News. 2007-06-14. Dominic Casciani . 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..
- News: Khawaja excited by guns and rockets, court hears. Toronto Star. 2008-06-24. Richard Brennan. 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..
- News: The five found guilty yesterday. The Guardian. 2007-05-01. 2010-08-03. Omar Khyam, 25, from Crawley, was drawn to radical Islam in his teens..
- Web site: Terrorists moved to new jail after death threats. Caroline. Gammell. March 20, 2008. www.telegraph.co.uk.
