The first image of Ali Harbi Ali, the killer of 25-year-old Sir David Ames, who “was still in school five years ago, was known by teachers as a danger of Islamic extremism”. “Become radicalized by watching the videos of the British-Pakistani Mullah, Anjem Chaudary.”
Ali Harbi Ali had previously been identified in the Counter-Terrorism Plan, but his threat was not considered “severe enough.”
Anjem Chaudary is a British Pakistani Islamist and a Muslim social and political activist who has been convicted under the 2000 Counter-Terrorism Act for calling for support of a banned organization, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). He was subsequently sanctioned by the US State Department and the UN Security Council and his assets were frozen.
On September 6, 2016, Chaudary was sentenced to five years and six months in prison for calling of support for ISIS. He was automatically released under certain conditions in October 2018 and banned from speaking in public or to the media. On July 18, 2021, Chaudhry’s ban on public speaking was lifted.
The posts by Ali Harbi Ali on social media, the assassin of the British MP, are clearly the starting point for an investigation; Phrases such as “Death to Israel” that he wrote reflects the same slogans that are often chanted in the region by pro-Islamic groups connected to the Islamic regime of Iran.
