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Khuram Butt, Rachid Redouane and Youssef Zaghba named: Everything


we know about the London Bridge terrorists

London Bridge terrorists: What we know so far

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By Sarah Knapton ; Martin Evans ; Nicola Harley ; Harry Yorke ; Ben Farmer, DEFENCE CORRESPONDENT and Robert Mendick,
CHIEF REPORTER

6 JUNE 2017 12:48PM

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P olice have conrmed the identities of the three jihadis that killed seven people in a terrorist attack
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/06/london-bridge-attack-latest-police-make-fresh-raid-ilford-identity/) on London Bridge last
week.

Khuram Butt, 27, of east London, is believed to have led the trio of terrorists (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/05/london-
bridge-attack-latest-gunshots-heard-police-launch-fresh/) who ploughed into pedestrians using a hired van, before stabbing revellers
in pubs and bars on Saturday night.

Terrorists attack London Bridge and Borough


Market, in pictures

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Rachid Redouane,was a Moroccan-Libyan pastry chef who had until recently been living in Dublin. While the third
attacker was named on Tuesday as Youssef Zaghba, a 22-year-old Moroccan who had been arrested in Italy just a year ago
on his way to Syria, but still someohow managed to get into Britain.

All three were shot dead by armed police in the Borough Market area of south London, eight minutes after launching the
attack. Here is everything we know about them.

Khuram Butt
The ringleader of the London Bridge massacre never bothered to hide his violent, extremist views.

Khuram Butt was so brazen that he openly posed with the black ag of the so-called Islamic State in Regents Park in the
centre of London for a Channel 4 documentary, entitled The Jihadis Next Door (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/jihadis-next-door-
read-original-review/).
Abu Zeitoun, born as Khuram Butt, after being shot and killed by police at Borough London CREDIT: GABRIELE SCIOTTO

Butt and other extremists linked to the banned terror group al-Muhajiroun were even detained by police for an hour over
the stunt in 2015 but were released without being arrested.

In the lm, screened in January 2016, Butt appears on camera, intervening when police attempt to search one of the
groups leaders. Butt raises his voice, angrily asking them: Why are you touching him? In another clip, he requested a
compass in order that he could pray towards Mecca.

As a consequence, MI5 and counter-terrorism ofcers began an investigation into Butt, which remained ongoing even as
the 27-year-old launched his terror attack on London Bridge. Butt, who was wearing an Arsenal shirt and a fake bomb
strapped to his chest, was shot dead by police on Saturday night.

Butts known links to al-Muhajiroun will raise serious concern that he wasnt stopped prior to the atrocity. The group,
which was banned shortly after the 7/7 bombings in 2005, and its successor organisations have been connected to a
quarter of all Islamist terror offences and plots.
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Butt reportedly arrived in the UK from Pakistan as a child refugee. His father is said to have worked at a fruit and vegetable
stall in east London, but died in 2003, when Butt would have been a teenager.

One witness claimed to have seen Butt in the streets around Borough Market a week before Saturdays attack, while
reports on Monday night suggested the three men had done a dry runin the minutes before they targeted pedestrians on
London Bridge. Their van was caught on CCTV travelling across the bridge nine minutes before the attack, reportedly
allowing the terrorists to check the amount of trafc, the number of potential victims and whether there were any police
around.

It emerged on Monday that Butt had verbally assaulted an anti-terrorism campaigner at a rally in parliament led by the
notorious hate preacher Anjem Choudary the day after the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby in May 2013.

Mohammed Shaq, chief executive of the Ramadhan Foundation, which promotes Islamic tolerance, said: Khuram Butt
called me a Murtad, which means traitor in Arabic, and accused me of being a government stooge when I confronted
Anjem Choudary about him supporting terrorism.

Abu Zeitoun CREDIT: CHANNEL 4

The police turned up and Anjem, Khuram Butt and two other men were escorted away towards Millbank and I stayed in
College Green. I am not surprised that Khuram Butt carried out the terrorist attack and there are serious questions for the
authorities.

Butt, who lived in a ground oor at in east London, had also twice been reported to anti-terror police by friends and
neighbours concerned about his extremist views.

A former friend claimed Butt, who is understood to have worked for a fried chicken chain and for London Underground as
a trainee customer services assistant for six months until October, had been radicalised after watching videos on YouTube.
The friend said he contacted the authorities after becoming concerned over Butts obvious extremist views.

A neighbour Erica Gasparri said she had also contacted police after Butt tried to brainwash her children in the local park
and convert them to Islam.

Butt, who was married with two children, had also been ejected from a nearby mosque after a confrontation with an imam.
Butt was a football supporter, a kickboxer and a regular at a local gym - the Ummah Fitness Centre - which caters
predominantly for Muslims.

Channel 4 said yesterday that police had contacted them about the documentary and requested the broadcaster not to
comment.

Khuram Butt from Channel 4 documentray The Jihadis Next Door

In The Jihadis Next Door, Butt appeared alongside Mohammad Shamsuddin, who appears to have become the de facto
leader of the remnants of al-Muhajiroun following the jailing of its founder Omar Bakri Muhammad, who is languishing in
a Lebanese prison, and Choudary, who is serving a ve-and-half-year sentence for terror offences in the UK.

An authoritative analysis of all Islamist terrorism offences and attacks in the UK between 1998 and 2015 shows 25 per cent
have been committed by perpetrators with links to al-Muhajiroun and its various incarnations.

Those plots include the murder of Lee Rigby, committed byMuslim converts Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale,
who had been radicalised by Choudary as early as 2007.

Another senior gure in the group was Siddhartha Dhar, who skipped bail while under investigation over his association
with Choudary, and ed to Syria to ght with Islamic State. Dhar replaced Mohammed Emwazi, known as Jihadi John, as
the terror groups notorious executioner. Dhar also appeared in the Channel 4 lm until he ed to Syria.

The documentary concentrated on Shamsuddin and another preacher known as Abu Haleema. Choudary, Dhar,
Shamsuddin and Abu Haleema were arrested together in September 2014.

Shamsuddin, 40, admitted in the documentary he had been radicalised by Bakri, a Syrian born extremist who founded al-
Muhajiroun, while at university.

In the documentary, Abu Haleema and Shamsuddin are lmed laughing as they watch Islamic State execution videos.
Haleema was shown calling for homosexuals to be thrown from tall buildings, alcohol to be outlawed and adulterers to be
stoned to death on Haven Green near Ealing, in West London.
Mohammed Shamsuddin

The documentary, lmed over two years by director Jamie Roberts, also showed Shamsuddin calling for David Cameron to
be arrested under Sharia law.

The Sharia is coming to the UK this black ag you see here one day is gonna be on 10 Downing Street, he said.

He later told the lmmakers: Our message is deadly, we are calling for world domination, and for Sharia for the UK.

Shamsuddin said that his views were moulded by Bakri - dubbed the Tottenham Ayatollah - who is now in jail in Lebanon
for supporting terrorism.
Abu Haleema

Haleema and Shamsuddin were also arrested in August 2015 during anti-terror raids, but no further action was taken.

Rachid Redouane
A Moroccan chef who took part in the London terrorist attack is believed to have visited his estranged wife hours before
the attack so he could say goodbye to their daughter.

Rachid Redouane was seen visiting his wife, Charisse, only three hours before he and two accomplices killed seven by
ramming crowds with a van and then launching a knife rampage, neighbours said.
Rachid Redouane

One neighbour told the Telegraph he had even stood next to the terrorist in a lift as he went up to his wifes apartment.

The man, who wished to remain anonymous, and who lives in the sameapartment block as Redouanes wife, said: I was
standing right next to him in that lift.

Ive seen him four or ve times, hes come here often to see his daughter. He didnt say a word, we just stood there silently
until we got to his oor.

It was only the next day when my mate told me about the attacks that I realised it was him. Its scary you know. I dont like
the fact that my kids were living in the same block as this guy. He was there at 7pm.

Large numbers of police then arrived at the block of ats on Sunday after the attack.

Another couple living in the same block, just a few hundred yards from where another attacker, Khuram Butt lived, also
told the Telegraph that Redouane had visited on Saturday evening.

The couple, who were aged in their 20s and wished to remain anonymous, said that the man had then left the apartment
block and had signed out at reception.

The man said: The whole block is talking about it, about he came to say goodbye to her and his daughter before they left.

The police came yesterday morning, there were dozens of them. We know he signed out at reception because guests
visiting have to.

He was here just before it all happened.

Redouane and his wife are reported to have split up over their differing views on religion, after they clashed over the best
way to raise their child.

Redouane is listed on his daughters birth certicate as Moroccan and gives his profession as pastry chef. However police
said he also claimed to be Libyan and has in the past used the name Rachid Elkhdar, claiming to be six years younger.

Redouane was not known to the security services, according to a police statement.

An Irish ID card was found on his body after he was shot dead by armed police in Borough Market, Southwark. The plastic
credit card-sized document is believed to have been issued by the Garda National Immigration Bureau and is given to
people from outside the EU.

The card has a persons certicate of registration which states they have permission to stay in Ireland. It must be carried at
all times.

Redouane married his 38-year-old wife in Ireland in 2012and they later moved to the UK. His wife never converted to her
husbands faith, and they had recently split up, the Guardian reported. A friend said they had clashed over how to
raisetheir daughter.

On social media Redouanes wife, whose maiden name was OLeary, had recently described herself as single and at one
point complained that her daughters father was not seeing his child.

Redouane had been living in the Rathmines area in the south of Dublin while in Ireland, according to Irish police sources,
and had spent time there as recently as three months ago.

Enda Kenny, the Taoiseach, said while on a trade mission to Chicago that the dead terrorist is not believed to have been
under surveillance by Irish police.
He said: There are a small number of people in Ireland who are being monitored and observed in respect of radicalisation
and matters relevant to that.

In this case these facts are being checked, but my understanding is that this individual was not a member of that small
group.

The Irish police are reportedly watching up to 12 foreign nationals, mainly of north African origin, over suspected links to
extremist groups.

Garda are understood to be piecing together Redouanes movements in the country over recent years and whether he was
radicalised in the country.

As details of Redouanes Irish links were disclosed, a Muslim imam and scholar based in the country said Irish authorities
had repeatedly ignored his warnings about local activists from the Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (Isil) group and al-Qaida
activists.

Shaykh Dr Umar al-Qadri said neither the police nor the justice department contacted him after he warned there was an
Islamist extremist presence in Dublin.

Youssef Zaghba
The 22-year-old, who was born in the city of Fez in January 1995, had a Moroccan father and an Italian mother.

He was reportedly arrested at Bologna airport in March 2016 trying to get to Syria and was also understood to be on an
Italian anti-terror watch list.

Youseff, had recently moved to east London and was working in a restaurant.

According to reports in the Italian press, Zaghba, grew up with his parents in Morocco until they split when he was a child.
Youssef Zaghba

He then regularly stayed with his father but regularly visited his Italian mother ather home just outside the northern city
of Bologna.

He was there last year and after telling his mother he was going to Rome, bought a one way ticket to Istanbul.

Carrying only a rucksack, he was stopped by Italian security services at the airport and was arrested on suspicion of trying
to make his way to Syria.

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Italian police seized his mobile phone and found a large amount of religious content, but nothing that necessarily
suggested an interest in jihad.

But it has also emerged that he had been placed on an Italian watchlist for potential terrorists after his behaviour raised
concern with the intelligence services.

A spokesman for Scotland Yard said Zaghba was not known to the police orMI5, unlike Butt, who had been the subject of a
lengthy investigation because of his radical views and behaviour.

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