The Birmingham Bombers were jihadists who had been influenced by the lectures and writings of Anwar Al-Awlaki, a US-born extremist of Yemeni descent who was an affiliate of al Qaeda on the Arabian peninsula. The three were ringleaders of a wider cell connected with Al-Qaeda personnel in Pakistan for training to perpetrate a mass-casualty operation. After receiving explosives training in Pakistan, they were seeking to launch an attack in the UK, and had purportedly recorded martyrdom videos that had been left behind with contacts in Al-Qaeda. The group was also accused of rasing $55,000 in bogus charity giving from the Muslim community to carry out the attack.VideoVideo: 2013 Irfan Naseer, 31, Irfan Khalid, 27, and Ashik Ali, 27, from Birmingham, were found guilty at Woolwich Crown Court of being "central figures" in the plot.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSsEKDfjDbU
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