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- ↑ Safiyya Shaikh: How undcercover operation caught a drug addict jihadist
- 1 2 Charters, Cameron (3 July 2020). "Brit jihadi 'too stoned' to get suicide vest for St Paul's bomb terror attack". mirror. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
- 1 2 The Telegraph YouTube channel Female Islamic State supporter jailed for plotting to blow up St Paul's Cathedral
- ↑ "Safiyya Shaikh: How undercover operation caught a drug addict jihadist". BBC News. 3 July 2020.