by Tom Slater, Telegraph
Amar Hussein and Walid Saadaoui were sentenced to life for plotting attack on Jews
“I’m proud [to] be terrorist here. You know? I’m proud! And Koran is say, ‘be terrorist’, you know? That’s God! We are proud of this.” There it is, in cocky, broken English – the Islamist menace that will not go away, as much as the great and good might hope otherwise.
These are the words of Amar Hussein in an interview with Greater Manchester Police. The Kuwaiti national, living in Bolton, was hoping to murder as many Jews as possible. It could have been our Bondi Beach, a jihadist slaughter of innocent British Jewry, and one of the most deadly Islamic terror attacks ever to stain British soil.
Hussein and the plot’s ringleader, Walid Saadaoui, from Tunisia, were trying to get their hands on four AK-47s, two handguns and 900 rounds of ammunition. The plan was to open fire on a march against anti-Semitism in central Manchester sometime in 2024, before heading to the north of the city, home of Mancunian Jewry.
Thank God they never got close. The man who they thought was procuring them the weapons was an undercover officer who had infiltrated the plot. They were arrested in May 2024, as Saadaoui came to collect some of the firearms, which had been deactivated.