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Police raid Sussex home of suspected Syria suicide bomber - Telegraph
Police raid Sussex home of suspected Syria suicide bomber
Abdul Waheed Majeed, from Crawley, is believed to be the first British citizen to carry out a suicide atttack in Syria
Police are searching a house in Crawley in connection with what is believed to be the first suicide attack carried out by a British citizen in Syria.
It is understood Abdul Waheed Majeed, 41, who used the nom de Guerre Abu Suleiman al-Britani while fighting with rebels, drove a truck full of explosives into a prison last week in a "martydom mission".
Officers were today examining the house in Martyrs Avenue, Langley Green, Crawley, West Sussex.
Majeed, who is understood to be British but of Pakistani origin, is thought to be a member of the extremist Al-Qaeda-linked Jabhat al-Nusra group.
He drove a truck packed with explosives into Aleppo's central jail on Thursday. Hundreds of rebels followed behind, managing to free up to 300 prisoners held by Syrian forces.
Photographs taken moments before last week's attack were posted on Twitter and appeared to show the jihadi inside the truck, or Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED), decked with the black Jabhat al-Nusra flag.
Another picture shows large plumes of spoke rising from the site after the device was detonated.
Fellow fighters posted tributes to the jihadi on Twitter. Abu Fulan al-Muhajir wrote: "May allah accept him. All british muslims should be proud of him. I am, and I'm not even British.
"I met brother Abu Sulayman al-Britani. He looked so beautiful dressed all in white, standing on top of the car shouting "takbeer" (Allah is great)." Sussex police confirmed that they are working closely with South East Counter Terrorism Unit in relation to its enquiries.
Henry Smith, Crawley MP, said: "I don't know any personal details of the individual allegedly involved and police are not confirming that he was from Crawley at this stage. "However, it is very concerning and heightens the importance of Foreign Office advice that people should not travel to Syria for safety reasons and risk getting involved. "Crawley has very good community relations involving people of different faiths but it is particularly shocking if someone from the town is involved in radicalisation."
A Sussex Police spokeswoman said: "Sussex Police is aware of posts on social media. We are closely liaising with the South East Counter Terrorism Unit in relation to its inquiries. "There has been no formal identification of the man and therefore we cannot confirm who he is.
In 2007 three men from Langley Green - Omar Khyam, Waheed Mahmood and Jawad Akbar - were convicted for plotting to blow up Bluewater shopping centre and a gas network with a giant fertiliser bomb. Attack of this kind committed by Britons are rare.
One of the last British citizens to die in a suicide attack was in Israel in 2003. Asif Mohammed Hanif, 21, a British citizen of Pakistani origin, killed three people when he blew himself up in a pub in Tel Aviv.
In 2007, a 21-year-old British student reportedly committed a suicide attack at a military checkpoint killing up to 20 soldiers in the southern Somali town of Baidoa.
There are thought to be several hundred Britons fighting in Syria's civil war. Earlier this week a British jihadist from Islamic State in Iraq (ISIS), a rival Islamist group, was killed during fighting against rebel groups at the border town of al-Rai.
So it starts..
Police raid Sussex home of suspected Syria suicide bomber
Abdul Waheed Majeed, from Crawley, is believed to be the first British citizen to carry out a suicide atttack in Syria
Police are searching a house in Crawley in connection with what is believed to be the first suicide attack carried out by a British citizen in Syria.
It is understood Abdul Waheed Majeed, 41, who used the nom de Guerre Abu Suleiman al-Britani while fighting with rebels, drove a truck full of explosives into a prison last week in a "martydom mission".
Officers were today examining the house in Martyrs Avenue, Langley Green, Crawley, West Sussex.
Majeed, who is understood to be British but of Pakistani origin, is thought to be a member of the extremist Al-Qaeda-linked Jabhat al-Nusra group.
He drove a truck packed with explosives into Aleppo's central jail on Thursday. Hundreds of rebels followed behind, managing to free up to 300 prisoners held by Syrian forces.
Photographs taken moments before last week's attack were posted on Twitter and appeared to show the jihadi inside the truck, or Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED), decked with the black Jabhat al-Nusra flag.
Another picture shows large plumes of spoke rising from the site after the device was detonated.
Fellow fighters posted tributes to the jihadi on Twitter. Abu Fulan al-Muhajir wrote: "May allah accept him. All british muslims should be proud of him. I am, and I'm not even British.
"I met brother Abu Sulayman al-Britani. He looked so beautiful dressed all in white, standing on top of the car shouting "takbeer" (Allah is great)." Sussex police confirmed that they are working closely with South East Counter Terrorism Unit in relation to its enquiries.
Henry Smith, Crawley MP, said: "I don't know any personal details of the individual allegedly involved and police are not confirming that he was from Crawley at this stage. "However, it is very concerning and heightens the importance of Foreign Office advice that people should not travel to Syria for safety reasons and risk getting involved. "Crawley has very good community relations involving people of different faiths but it is particularly shocking if someone from the town is involved in radicalisation."
A Sussex Police spokeswoman said: "Sussex Police is aware of posts on social media. We are closely liaising with the South East Counter Terrorism Unit in relation to its inquiries. "There has been no formal identification of the man and therefore we cannot confirm who he is.
In 2007 three men from Langley Green - Omar Khyam, Waheed Mahmood and Jawad Akbar - were convicted for plotting to blow up Bluewater shopping centre and a gas network with a giant fertiliser bomb. Attack of this kind committed by Britons are rare.
One of the last British citizens to die in a suicide attack was in Israel in 2003. Asif Mohammed Hanif, 21, a British citizen of Pakistani origin, killed three people when he blew himself up in a pub in Tel Aviv.
In 2007, a 21-year-old British student reportedly committed a suicide attack at a military checkpoint killing up to 20 soldiers in the southern Somali town of Baidoa.
There are thought to be several hundred Britons fighting in Syria's civil war. Earlier this week a British jihadist from Islamic State in Iraq (ISIS), a rival Islamist group, was killed during fighting against rebel groups at the border town of al-Rai.
So it starts..
