Muslim fanatic ‘trained 21/7 bombers’
By Charlotte Gill
A Muslim fanatic who mockingly called himself “Osama bin London” radicalised and trained the July 21 bombers, a court heard yesterday.
Mohammed Hamid is said to have taken his brainwashed followers on paintballing trips and training camps in the English countryside to prepare them for fighting.
Under his instruction, the young men allegedly performed military-style training, brandishing sticks as if they were guns and practising tactics to counter an armed ambush.
One of the paintballing trips, attended by July 21 bombers Ramzi Mohammed and Hussain Osman, took place just four days before the July 7 attacks and two weeks before the two men carried out their own attempt.
On the night of July 7, 2005, after the terrorist attacks earlier that day, Hamid allegedly texted Osman: “We fear no one except Allah, we will not change our ways, we are proud to be a Muslim and we will not hide.” One of Hamid’s expeditions was even filmed by a BBC television crew making a documentary called “Don’t Panic, I’m Islamic”.
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