From the Sunday Times via the Express on Sunday. Also the local newspaper the Argus. Regular readers may remember my reports of several years back of March for England’s annual St George’s day parade in Brighton which always faced the most violent opposition from left wing agitators. There are some evil undercurrents in what is actually quite a nasty little town.
Counterterrorism officials have identified 28 young people from Brighton, including five teenage girl converts to Islam, who plotted to go to Syria to join Isis or similar groups.The authorities also feared that members of the group, about half of whom are teenagers, could carry out a terrorist attack in Brighton using knives or a pistol.
Three of the aspiring jihadists, including one girl, are understood to have been placed under court orders to stop them leaving for Syria.
The radicalised gang only emerged as part of a wider review for the council into three brothers who left their family home to take up arms in the country ravaged by civil war. Amer, 22, Abdullah, 18, and Jaffar Deghayes, 17, left for Syria in 2014, along with their childhood friend Ibrahim Kamara, 19. All but Amer are thought to have been killed fighting, who is still believed to be in Syria.
A report by counterterrorism officials revealed they feared some of the radicalised group were planning a Lee Rigby style attack on the streets of Brighton, home to 273,000 people.
Speaking to The Sunday Times, a source said: “The first threat level that they were concerned about is that some of them would take a knife and kill people, a bit like what happened in the Lee Rigby attack.”
Despite identifying weapons such as knives and pistols as likely to be used by the clan, they ruled out explosives and considered it unlikely a group of teenagers would be able to get their hands on any bomb making material.
The source added: “It’s obviously a serious concern that there are 28 young people brainwashed to the point that they want to join jihadist groups or consider plotting against innocent people here at home. The concern has not abated; there’s a lot of extremism-related problems lurking that the police and social services are attempting to deal with.”
Roughly 60 per cent of the crew are Islamic converts, and at least one girl had previously been referred to the government’s counter-radicalisation programme, Channel. Diversity is a big thing in Brighton. Which means that there are a lot of targets for a jihadist and very little effort made to deter one.
The review into the affair is expected to be published shortly in a redacted format.The Sunday Times reported in February that it was expected to reveal that police and social services missed a number of chances over at least five years to counter the radicalisation of the Deghayes brothers.
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