US terror case sheds light on RAF Fairford arrests mystery
Summary
A US indictment accuses Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi and two associates of directing attacks on American and Jewish targets in the UK. It identifies Mohammed Ali al-Hassani as the handler linked to the September incident near RAF Fairford and alleges that he and the others also coordinated earlier attacks in London.Key Facts
- US authorities took al-Saadi into custody in May and accuse him of leading the group Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia, known as Hayi.
- The indictment alleges that al-Saadi sent coded messages to associates while he was held in a New York jail.
- The indictment identifies Mohammed Ali al-Hassani, a 35-year-old Iraqi believed to be in Iran, as an associate who used contacts to carry out attacks in the UK.
- UK police charged two British men with assisting Iranian intelligence in connection with the RAF Fairford incident; they have not yet entered pleas.
- A court in London heard that a handler called Ali directed men in vans to drive to Fairford.
- US prosecutors allege that al-Hassani and Mohsen Mohajeri discussed focusing on London in April, before six attacks followed.
- Al-Saadi, al-Hassani and Mohajeri are accused of directing an individual during a 17 April attack on premises linked to Jewish Futures in Hendon.
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