Suspects named on United Nations terror list living free in Britain

 Source: telegraph

Calls were growing last night for firm action to be taken over a dozen terror suspects named on a UN list of individuals with links to al Qaeda who are still living freely in the UK – many at the taxpayer’s expense. The revelation that the men are being allowed to live in Britain without the prospect of being arrested or deported has prompted calls for an urgent change in the law.

Among the 12 suspects named on the UN list are a number of men accused of raising funds for a violent jihadist group with alleged links to Osama bin Laden.

Opposition MPs claim their presence in the UK leaves this country at risk from the prospect of new terror plots being hatched by violent extremists.

Patrick Mercer, Conservative member of the Home Affair Select Committee and chairman of the Sub-Committee on Counter Terrorism, said: “Yet again our security is wide open to these sorts of individuals and it is something the Home Secretary has to address.”

One of the men named on the UN Consolidated List is Mohammed al Ghabra, a 29-year-old British citizen suspected of being a key figure in the plot to blow up passenger airliners over the Atlantic.

Also on the list is Khalid Abd Al-Rahman Hamd Al-Fawaz, 44, a Kuwaiti living in London, who has been accused by the FBI of involvement in bombing American embassies, and Hani al Sayyid al Sebai, a 46-year-old Egyptian also living in London.

Other individuals on the UN list include Ghuma Abd’rabbah, 52, a Libyan-born British citizen who is suspected of raising funds for the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), a jihadist organisation opposed to the Gadaffi regime, and accused of having links with al Qaeda. He is understood to be living in the Birmingham area, along with Libyan-born Abd Al-Rahman Al Faqih, 50, who is also on the UN list.

Another suspected LIFG fund-raiser on the list is Abdulbasit Abdulrahim, 41, who holds British nationality and lives in London. However, the LIFG denies any links with al Qaeda and claims it supporters have been listed in order to appease Colonel Gaddafi.