The suicide bomber behind the Manchester blasts was 22-year-old Salman Ramadan Abedi from Falowfield, South Manchester. Yesterday’s attack highlights one of Britian’s biggest problems – Islamic radicalisation and home grown terror.
The Israeli Embassy Bombings of 1994 in Kensington, West London, that injured 20, saw five Palestinians arrested of whom two were found guilty – Samar Alami and Kawad Botmeh. Both of them were jailed for 20 years. One of them was a lecturer in the London Metropolitan University; the other a chemical engineering graduate from the University College of London – both of them well educated and residents of the United Kingdom. One thing was certain – they did not act alone. Scotland Yard was certain someone else had carried out the bombing.
After their conviction, doubts emerged over whether they were the right terrorists. Organisations such as Amnesty International expressed concerns over their conviction. Leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, led the campaign for their release and to overtuen their conviction. In February 2013, he wrote to the Vice Chancellor of London Metropolitain University supporting Botmeh’s bid to become Governor after release from prison. The letter read:
I supported Jawad’s case inside parliament and outside including meetings/demonstrations; Jawad’s case is, I believe, a miscarriage of justice.
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