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A Muslim fanatic who boasted of being “Osama bin London” has been found guilty of organising terrorist training camps, including one for the 21/7 "bombers".
Mohammed Hamid, 50, was also convicted of encouraging others to murder non-believers at the end of a four-month trial at Woolwich Crown Court.
Three of his followers, Kibley da Costa, 25, Mohammed Al-Figari, 45, and Kader Ahmed, 20, were found guilty of attending terror camps in the New Forest and at a Berkshire paintballing centre.
Two further members of the gang, Mohammed Kyriacou, 19, and Yassin Mutegombwa, 23, admitted attending terrorist training camps, it can be reported today after restrictions were lifted.

The court heard that Hamid led an al-Qaeda-style terrorist cell and aspired to send his recruits to join camps in Afghanistan and East Africa. Among his pupils were five of the July 21 failed bombers, including ringleader Muktar Said Ibrahim, who attended Lake District camps in 2004.
Detectives said although there is no evidence Hamid organised the attacks, he was partly responsible for the state of mind of those that did.
He boasted that the July 7 attacks were “not even breakfast for me” and hours afterwards sent a text message to his friend, July 21 conspirator Hussain Osman. It read: “We fear no-one except Allah. We will not change our ways, we are proud to be Muslim and we will not hide.”
Hamid organised outdoor activities including camping and paintballing at sites in the Lake District, New Forest, Berkshire, Kent and East Sussex.
The jury found three of these trips were terrorist training designed to recruit, groom and corrupt impressionable young Muslims. They were combined with incendiary weekly talks at his east London council home where he sowed the seeds of hate among his followers.
He was joined in his teachings by Atilla Ahmet, 43, the self-styled emir of the gang, who admitted three charges of soliciting murder at the start of the trial. Ahmet was Abu Hamza’s right-hand man at Finsbury Park Mosque and took control of his notorious Supporters of Shariah group after his arrest in 2004.
One senior police source said officers will never know whether Hamid and Ahmet intended their followers to attack targets in the UK or overseas. He said: “They were certainly doing paramilitary training for terrorism. Whether that was to be terrorism overseas or at home, I do not know.
"But five of the people convicted of the July 21 attacks attended these camps. We could not rule out the possibility that these people would go on to commit terrorism here.”
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And what about the BBC's role in this? Nasreen Suleaman, a BBC reporter who took part in the Paintballing documentary, knew of the links to the bombers but "Didn't feel obliged to report it". Surely the BBC must be held to account?
Carl, London ,
They all have mad eyes!
martin, London, UK
One of them asked an undercover police officer for money to attend a training camp? WOW! These guys are real genius's. I don't think M15 will be too worried about these half-cut wanna-be terrorists; they couldn't organise a ramadam in a brewery!
Andrew Duncan, Guildford, UK
Philippe, your inclusion of the phrase "non believers" without inverted commas makes me cringe in horror. I am a believer--but not of Allah...
Paul, Columbia, USA
This report fails to mention a fact which appeared in the Court: this training had been going on for at least 13 years, in other words, well before September 11, 2001 or the freeing of Iraqis from Saddam Hussein's tyranny. As Hassan Butt remarked on July 2, 2007 interview in the Daily Mail: "How we used to laugh in celebration whenever people on TV proclaimed that the sole cause for Islamic acts of terror was Western foreign policy. By blaming the government, they did our propaganda work for us. More important, they also helped to draw away any critical examination from the real engine of our violence: Islam's theology." No doubt the apologists and moral equivalencers will come to comment on this article but the fact is Islam, the Koran, the Hadiths, the Sira are what make Moslems terrorists because that is how Islam was spread, in the 7th century and for the past 1400 years.
Drake, london,
I trust that the prison authorities will insist for hygiene purposes that the prisoners will have to shave off those really untidy beards, and also to be placed in a safe part of the prison to protect them from the patriotic prisoners who may have relatives as soldiers in the British forces.
B J Deller, Marbella, Spain
Well your have got your breakfast now mate. It's called porridge.
Roger, Surrey,
Do the men in the first three pictures have their heads on upside-down?
Cyril Franklin, Willenhall,
Im guessin we educated these men,housed these men,
healed these men and supported every member of the
extended family they all have in this country.
It makes me sick to know that in the words of the security
services "they number in there thousands"
john, scotland,
Asco: "There seems to be an awful lot of propaganda coming from our government (surprise!) in respect of these fellas who, let's face it, didn't do terribly well at what they set out to do did they?"
They didn't do terribly well because they were infiltrated. It's easy to say they're just 'socially-marginalised losers ' now they have no chance to prove themselves. How do you know what they would have achieved given time? How about congratulating the police for a good job done instead of spouting the usual tired old liberal left soundbite that it's all government propaganda?
Lin, London, UK
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