AN ENDURING THREAT: EUROPE’S ISLAMIST TERROR NETWORKS THEN AND NOW Badat testified against Adis Medunjanin in 2012, who was subsequently sentenced to life for a plot to carry 1124 out suicide bombings on the New York subway. In March 2014, he also testified against al-Qaeda spokesperson and bin Laden’s nephew, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, sentenced to life for conspiring to kill 1125 Americans. In April 2014, Badat testified against Abu Hamza-al Masri, who was subsequently convicted and jailed for life in the US for hostage-taking and plotting to establish a terrorist training camp in 1126 Oregon. He also gave testimony which was used during the trial of Babar Ahmed and Syed Talha 1127 Ahsan, who plead guilty to providing material support to terrorists. In August 2015, the US State 1128 Department removed Badat from its list of designated global terrorists. Foreign training/combat: Badat received six to eight months of training in light and heavy weapons, explosives and intelligence at Derunta training camp, al-Matar (aka al-Obaida) training camp, and al- 1129 Farooq training camp. Movements: 1130 Bosnia (1998); (Afghanistan 1999, 2001); Belgium (2001); UK (2001). Criminal history: Convicted of conspiracy to destroy, damage or endanger the safety of an aircraft in 1131 service in February 2005. Known to the authorities: Unknown. Networks and associates: ‘Shoe-bomb’ plot: 1132 -! Richard Reid [Conspired with Reid to ‘shoe-bomb’ a transatlantic flight]; 1133 Nizar Trabelsi [Badat was sent from Afghanistan to meet Trabelsi in September 2001]; Abu 1134 Khabbab al-Masri [Badat visited the bomb-maker in Jalalabad in November 2001]. Al-Qaeda: 1135 -! Osama bin Laden [Badat met with bin Laden on more than one occasion, meeting him in 2001 before leaving Afghanistan]; 1136 Abu Hafs al-Masri [Al-Qaeda’s military chief, Badat 1137 1138 met al-Masri personally and was dispatched to Belgium in September 2001 by him]; Saif al- 1139 Adel [Bin Laden’s director of terrorist operations abroad, al-Adel met with Badat and sent him to Belgium in 2001]; Khalid Sheikh Mohammed [Met with Badat before he left Afghanistan in ! ! 1124 ‘New York bomb plotter Adis Medunjanin sentenced to life’, BBC News, 17 November 2012, available at: www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20371785, last visited: 9 August 2016. 1125 ‘UK man who plotted shoe bombing to testify at Bin Laden son-in-law trial’, Guardian, 11 March 2014; ‘Sulaiman Abu Ghaith sentenced to life in prison’, BBC News, 23 September 2014, available at: www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-29331395, last visited: 9 August 2016. 1126 ‘Osama Bin Laden “gave me a hug and wished me well”: British supergrass tells Abu Hamza trial about his relationship with Al Qaeda leader’, Daily Mail, 28 April 2014, available at: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2615297/Osama-Bin-Laden-gave-hug-wished-British-supergrass-tells-Abu-Hamza-trial-relationship-Al- Qaeda-leader.html, last visited: 9 August 2016 ; ‘Former al-Qaida operative turned informant testifies in Abu Hamza trial’, Guardian, 28 April 2014; ‘Radical cleric Abu Hamza jailed for life by US court’, BBC News, 9 January 2015, available at: www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-30754959, last visited: 9 August 2016. 1127 ‘Two Britons who pleaded guilty to US terror charges seek access to secret files’, Guardian, 4 April 2014, available at: www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/04/britons-terror-charges-secret-file-trial-bomb, last visited: 9 August 2016. 1128 ‘In the Matter of the Designation of Sajid Mohammad Badat as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist Pursuant Section 1(b) of Executive Order 13224, as Amended’, US Federal Register, 26 August 2015, available at: www.federalregister.gov/articles/2015/08/26/2015-21162/in-the-matter-of-the-designation-of-sajid- mohammad-badat-as-a-specially-designated-global-terrorist, last visited: 9 August 2016; ‘Designation of Sajid Mohammed Badat as a Foreign Terrorist Organization’, US State Department, 19 December 2005, available at: www.state.gov/j/ct/rls/other/des/58253.htm, last visited: 9 August 2016. 1129 ‘‘Deposition in U.S. v. Adis Medunjanin’, pp. 7, 12, 19, 63-4 and 74. 1130 O’Neill, S. and Daniel McGrory, The Suicide Factory: Abu Hamza and the Finsbury Park Mosque (London: Harper Collins, 2006) and Deposition in U.S. v. Adis Medunjanin 1131 Saajid Badat, trial record sheet, private correspondence, Central Criminal Court, 17 June 2009. 1132 ‘Terror suspect admits plane plot’, BBC News, 28 February 2005. 1133 ‘Deposition in U.S. v. Adis Medunjanin’, 29 March 2012, pp. 30, 68. 1134 O’Neill, S. and Daniel McGrory, The Suicide Factory: Abu Hamza and the Finsbury Park Mosque (London: Harper Collins, 2006), p. 230. 1135 ‘Deposition in U.S. v. Adis Medunjanin’, p. 8. 1136 ibid, p. 35. 1137 ‘Deposition in U.S. v. Adis Medunjanin’, pp. 9-11; ‘Ministers paid £1m to suspect “seen at al-Qaeda terror camp”’, Daily Telegraph, 18 May 2014. 1138 ‘Deposition in U.S. v. Adis Medunjanin’, p. 18. 1139 ‘Deposition in U.S. v. Adis Medunjanin’, pp. 9-11; ‘Ministers paid £1m to suspect “seen at al-Qaeda terror camp”’, Daily Telegraph, 18 May 2014. ! ! 88 !