A “serious blunder” led to missed opportunities to disrupt a plot by Islamic State extremists to murder an imam in Greater Manchester, a public inquiry has found. Jalal Uddin, 71, was bludgeoned to death with a hammer in a public park in Rochdale by Mohammed Kadir, then aged 24, because he practised a form of Islamic healing known as ruqyah that the terrorist group regarded as blasphemous and “black magic”.
It's not the first time the bloodthisty savages have turned on each other, and I'm pretty sure it won't be the last.
The public inquiry, chaired by Thomas Teague KC, involved both public and private “closed” hearings, to protect national security.
What’s the point? Do we even have any worth protecting anymore? The State is ruthless in acting against the national interest, even if it has to muzzle the press to do so.
The public report, released before parliament on Thursday, found all three men had previously come to the attention of the police. It highlighted that Kadir was known to counter-terrorism police at the time of Uddin’s murder and had been identified as a person of high risk.
Ah, that most modern of phrases, ‘known to counter-terrorism police’- are you as sick and tired of reading it as I am, Reader?
Although the need for a targeted police investigation into Kadir’s activities had been recognised by December 2015, the necessary steps including the appointment of a senior investigating officer (SIO) were not implemented. A potential SIO was identified within the north-west counter-terrorism unit (NWCTU) but was not put in a position to take up duties for reasons beyond the control of that officer and the NWCTU, the report found.
Such as? Acts of god?
The former detective inspector Frank Morris, who retired from Greater Manchester police (GMP) in 2021, told the inquiry an investigation into Hussain had been closed down prematurely two years before the murder. The report said the failure to appoint an SIO led to two “missed opportunities”. The first was that Kadir’s Facebook posts of September 2015 might have been scrutinised by police; he had described imams like Uddin as “dirty kufr people” and vowed to “take this on” to “paralyse them”. The report said the second missed opportunity was that other police investigative actions concerning Kadir might have detected and thwarted the murder plot.
They are almost never just terrorists, they are usually common criminals as well, so it should be no surprise other branches were interested in him.
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Known to Plod is meaningless in a statement as everybody in the UK is known to plod because almost everything is recorded and stored for analysis, except of course some illegal aliens that hide among certain communities who protect them. The issue is that we don't have enough people to keep tabs on them but soon we will have created a nation of snitches and people will be happy to keep tabs on their neighbours for the state.
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