| Omar Khyam | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1982 (age 42–43) |
| Arrested | Britain Security Official |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Alleged to be a member of | al-Muhajiroun |
Omar Khyam is a British man who led a terrorist plot to explode a fertilizer bomb in London in 2004 for which he received a life sentence with a minimum term of 20 years. [1] [2] [3] [4] He was trained in bomb-making at the Malakand training camp in Pakistan in 2001 or 2002. He was moved to HM Prison Full Sutton, near York, in March 2008. [5]
Within weeks two of the most dangerous British-born jihadi terrorists — Mohammad Sidique Khan, leader of the 7/7 suicide bombers, and Omar Khyam, leader of the so-called Crevice gang — were learning to make bombs at Malakand. Details of the party were disclosed this weekend by one of the guests, Hassan Butt, a former associate of the Islamist radicals who has turned against violence.
Two of the men who trained with Zeeshan are better known. Mohammad Sidique Khan was the ringleader of the 2005 7 July suicide bombers. The second was Omar Khyam, the now jailed head of a plot to detonate a massive fertiliser bomb in England.
Khawaja went to the camp with Omar Khyam, a ringleader in the failed London bombing plot, for which Khawaja is an accused participant.
Omar Khyam, 25, from Crawley, was drawn to radical Islam in his teens.