Three Convicted over ISIS-Inspired Mass Shooting Plot Against Jews in Manchester:
Three men were convicted this week for over a planned ISIS-inspired mass shooting terror attack against Manchester’s Jewish community in an act of supposed revenge over the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Palestine.
Tunisian migrant Walid Saadaoui, 38, who migrated to the UK after marrying an English woman, and Amar Hussein, 52, were convicted at the Preston Crown Court this week of preparation of an Islamist terrorist act. Though not directly involved in the plot, Saadaoui’s son, Bilel Saadaoui, 37, was also convicted of failing to disclose information about an act of terrorism.
Saadaoui and Hussein are said to have sought to smuggle firearms, including AK-47s and hundreds of rounds of ammunition to the United Kingdom, as a part of an “ISIS-inspired plot” targeting Jewish people of the Greater Manchester area in retaliation for the conflict between Israel and Hamas terrorists.
In posts on social media under the pseudonym of Bataclan terrorist Abdelhamid Abaaoud, Saadaoui said that he wanted to “avenge” Islam from the “Jews and the Crusaders”, The Telegraph reported.
Speaking with an undercover agent who called himself Farouk, Saadaoui said in 2023 that using a knife was “ineffective, what is needed is an automatic gun,” adding: “We want to do the same as what Abaaoud done, God willing. We must run rivers of their impure blood.”
He later told the undercover officer that he wanted to kill at least 50 people, saying: “Grab a Jewish person and slaughter him and remove his head, rub blood on my body, throw it away. That is the least we can do.”
Saadaoui further said that he was planning on disguising himself as a Jewish person during the attack, which he said should take place during a protest against antisemitism. “When they do that it is a beautiful, beautiful, very beautiful time,” he said.
During an apparent reconnosance mission, the pair passed by Jewish schools, nurseries, restaruants, synagogues, and a Kosher supermarket in the heavily Jewish areas of Prestwich and Higher Broughton. While discussing their plan, Saadaoui called Jews “pigs and monkeys” and said: “Hitler, may God be exalted, was burning them, the Jews. Did you know?” --->READ MORE HERE
‘My blood is boiling, brother’: the foiled plot to massacre Jews on streets of Greater Manchester:
Walid Saadaoui and Amar Hussein thought ‘zero hour’ had finally arrived until undercover operative thwarted them
When Walid Saadaoui recruited Amar Hussein to join him in a pogrom on the streets of Greater Manchester, Hussein wept with joy.
For years, the two men had been sleeper agents for the Islamic State terrorist group. Each had lived quietly in Britain for years, waiting for the right moment to stage an attack, and for the right person to give them the support to make it happen.
Now, finally, it seemed that “zero hour” – as they called it – had arrived.
They planned to disguise themselves as Jews to infiltrate a march against antisemitism in Manchester city centre, before opening fire on the crowd with assault rifles.
The pair hoped to throw emergency services into chaos by paying people to make 999 calls across Greater Manchester, allowing them to slip away and continue their attack in the suburbs at the centre of the region’s Jewish community.
Saadaoui also planned to attack Christians, saying: “God willing … after we finish with the Jews … we move on to the crusaders.”
It would have been, according to senior detectives, the worst terrorist attack the UK had ever seen.
Both men envisaged being “martyred”, but neither reckoned with the prospect that a man they believed to be a crucial player in their plot could be a counter-terrorism undercover operative (UCO). Because of the courage of the UCO, known as “Farouk”, Saadaoui was captured in the final stages of preparation in a hotel car park, while Hussein was arrested at the shop where he worked.
A prosecution source said of Saadaoui, the prime mover: “This was a man who was quite prepared to go out and kill children and leave his own in the process.” They added: “At one point he says: ‘You know, if we have an AK-47 left over, I will leave it for my son – so he can do what I do when he grows up.’”
The disturbing mindset and tactics of the secret IS network of “lone wolves” and sympathisers were revealed in unprecedented detail in a forensic prosecution case laid out in a three month trial at Preston crown court.
Now that Saadaoui, 38, and Hussein, 52, have been convicted of preparing for acts of terrorism, and Saadaoui’s younger brother Bilel Saadaoui has been convicted of failing to report them, the full story of the plot can be told. --->READ MORE HERE
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