Mohammed Quayyam Khan
Mohammed Quayyam Khan is a British muslim suspected of playing a role in the Luton cell bomb-making plot.[1] Khan supported himself by working as a part-time taxi driver.[2][3] He is married, with children.
MI5 put Mohammed Quayyam Khan under surviellance in 2003.[2][3] He was the first individual they placed under surviellance as part of Operation Crevice.
He has been reported as having attended a training camp in Pakistan where he was taught how to prepare bombs.[1]
According to a profile of Mohammed Siddique Khanin Prospect magazine Mohammed Quayyam Khan sent Siddique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer to Pakistan for bomber training.[4]
According to Robert S. Leiken's book, Europe's Angry Muslims: The Revolt of the Second Generation MI5 believed he was an aide to Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, who was the third in command of al Qaeda.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Bin Laden's 'Bashful Dwarf' on the loose in Britain". Daily Mail. 2007-05-01. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-451911/Bin-Ladens-Bashful-Dwarf-loose-Britain.html. Retrieved 2012-02-18. "Meanwhile Sajil Shahid has been able to travel freely despite suspicions that he set up the training camp where Khan and Khyam learned bomb-making."
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ian Cobain, Richard Norton-Taylor, Jeevan Vasagar. "MI5 missed London bombers". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianweekly/story/0,,2070631,00.html. "Operation Crevice began as an MI5 investigation into a suspect living in Luton, Bedfordshire, called Mohammed Quayyum Khan. The court heard that Quayyum - known as Q - took orders from a senior al-Qaida figure, Abdul Hadi."
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Clive Gresswell (2007-06-05). "Terror suspect unveiled in trial". Luton & Dunstable Express. http://www.luton-dunstable.co.uk/News/Terror-suspect-unveiled-in-trial.htm?ID=80259. Retrieved 2012-02-20. "The identity of Mohammed Quayyum Khan, known as Q, was revealed at the Old Bailey fertiliser bomb trial."
- ↑ Shiv Malik (2007-06-31). "My brother the bomber". Prospect magazine. http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2007/06/mybrotherthebomber/. Retrieved 2012-02-20. "In July 2003, Quayyum would send Khan and Shehzad Tanweer, one of the other Beeston bombers, to receive training in bomb-making in Pakistan."
- ↑ Robert S. Leiken (2010). Europe's Angry Muslims: The Revolt of the Second Generation. Oxford University Press. p. 181. ISBN 9780195328974. http://books.google.ca/books?id=wJFnx0EcAK8C&pg=PA181&dq=%22Mohammed+Quayyum+Khan%22&ei=1M5CT7CdBIb4M6enocsL&cd=2#v=onepage&q=%22Mohammed%20Quayyum%20Khan%22&f=false. Retrieved 2012-02-20. "The probe was prompted by surveillance of a suspected al Qaeda leader living in Britain known as Mohammed Quayyum Khan. MI5 noticed that Quayyam, whom they believed to be an aide to al Qaeda leader Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, met repeatedly with Khyam."
