Last Friday, Conservative British MP David Amess was stabbed to death while
meeting with constituents. The suspect, Ali Harbi Ali, is a British citize


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British MP Killed By Man With Islamist Extremism Ties  

 

(New York, N.Y.) — Last Friday, Conservative British MP David Amess was
stabbed to death while meeting with constituents. The suspect,Ali Harbi Ali
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citizen. Ali had previously beenreferred
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to the government program Prevent, which works to divert individuals away from
extremism, after he displayed concerning behavior. Authorities areinvestigating
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the incident as an act of terror. Police are also looking into possible ties
to Islamist extremism, after Ali’s friends reportedly said he had been
radicalized from watching videos of internationally designated Islamist cleric
and convicted ISIS supporterAnjem Choudary
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Choudary was released from prison in 2018 after serving half of his sentence.
More than 20 of the government restrictions placed on Choudary’s communications
expired on July 19, 2021, including a ban on public speaking. Choudary
subsequently opened accounts on multiple social media platforms and began
posting Islamist diatribes calling for the creation of an Islamic caliphate
ruled under sharia law. For years before his 2014 arrest, Choudary’s Islamist
speeches, anti-Western rhetoric, and declared support for foreign Islamist
movements such as ISIS drew the attention of British authorities, who connected
Choudary to multiple terrorist-related cases in the United Kingdom and Europe.
Alireportedly
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began watching Choudary’s videos on YouTube while in high school. The day
after the attack, Choudarysuggested
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Amess had been targeted for voicing support for Israel. According to
preliminary investigations
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, however, Ali allegedly chose Amess randomly because he had been able to
arrange an in-person meeting with the politician.

 

After taking Ali into custody on Friday, police subsequently detained him
under the United Kingdom’s Terror Act and transferred him to London. The
following day, authorities obtained a warrant to detain Ali for an additional
week before they are required to charge him. Ali is the son of Harbi Ali
Kullane, a former media adviser to a former prime minister of Somalia who has
participated in multiple anti-terrorism campaigns against Somali terrorist group
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second British lawmaker to be killed in the past five years. Labour MP Jo Cox
was killed by a white supremacist and neo-Nazi outside of a constituency
meeting in 2016 in West Yorkshire.

 

To read the Counter Extremism Project (CEP)’s United Kingdom: Extremism and
Terrorism resource, please click here
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To read CEP’s Ali Harbi Ali resource, please click here
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To read CEP’s Anjem Choudary resource, please click here
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To read CEP’s Anjem Choudary’s Ties to Extremists resource, please click here
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