Ali Harbi Ali, the Somali terror suspect accused of stabbing to death senior Conservative party Member of Parliament Sir David Amess to death has been pictured for the first time.
Sir David Amess was a veteran Conservative party and was brutally stabbed to death when he was meeting constituents at Southend West on Friday afternoon.
Police and intelligence officials are saying that the murder of the Tory politician was singled out for attack by a suspected Islamist extremist. he may not have been had a specific motive for the targeting of Sir David his alleged killer had plotted to kill any national politician.
According to a report published in The Telegraph, a government insider told the paper, ‘He was unlucky. He was not targeted because of his political party. David Amess was not specifically targeted.’
However, former friends of Ali, a British national of Somali heritage claim he was radicalised after watching YouTube videos of convicted hate preacher Anjem Choudary who has recently completed his prison sentence and probation and now is free to preach his violent and intolerant form of Islam in the UK.
Anjem Choudary is one of the most influential and dangerous radicalisers in the UK and his followers included Michael Adebolajo, who murdered Fusilier Lee Rigby in South London.
But what is disturbing is that the 25-year-old had been referred to Prevent, the Government’s counter-terrorism programme, several years ago – but that his behaviour was not considered to be extreme enough to alert MI5.
Now British security services have warned Ministers that Britain could face a wave of terrorist attacks carried out by ‘bedroom radicals’ – so-called ‘lone wolf’ terrorists who turned to extremism after spending months at home during the Covid lockdown.
‘Counter-terror police and MI5 have been concerned for some time that once we emerged out of lockdown there would be more people out on the streets and more targets for the terrorists,’ one security source told The Telegraph.
But many in the UK believe that a time has come to stop people like Anjem Choudary from spewing hate. One of Ali’s friends had said, “He watched a lot of extreme videos including those posted by Choudary and his followers. Everyone used to say to him, But he’s a hate cleric and hates the West’ but he didn’t care. He became a huge fan. He admired Anjem, said he was right and his cause was right. It disgusted me. We were all very, very worried. He became totally radicalised through the internet and now he’s a suspect in something as evil as this. It’s horrendous.”
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