"Palestine" used to be ottoman. Philistines it seems actually came from southern turkey. If Palestinians want a state, ask turkey
Israelis used to be European...
Jews are unique due to the fact that wherever a Jew is born, he has a tie to Israel. Not so for any other peoples. True story.
That's amazing. So once a person converts to Judaism, let's say a Hindu, he acquires a tie to Israel?
What is amazing is that such a large percentage of converts to Islam become terrorists. Do you have any good explanation as to why this happens?
Do you have data that proves that a large percentage of converts to Islam become terrorists or is it just anecdotal. Cat Stevens, Cassius Clay, Lew Alcindor became terrorists?
If someone is involved in crime and terrorism and they had converted to a certain faith system, it is almost always Islam that the person converted to. The hate for non-Muslims found in Islam is quickly picked up by them. As a result, these converts often turn to the practice or support of terrorism and violence; often showing hatred for
their own family, country, and former way of life.
Involvement in Terrorism
Original Name Country of Origin Name after Conversion Activities More Information
David Hicks
Australia 
Muhammed Dawood Undertook terrorist training in al Qaeda-linked camps and served with the ruling Taliban regime in Afghanistan in 2001. He was then detained by the United States Government in Guantanamo Bay until 2007 when he became the first to be tried and convicted under the U.S. Military Commissions Act of 2006
"Jihad" diary reveals David Hicks terror training
Jill Courtney
Australia
Arrested at her suburban Sydney home in a swoop by federal and local police operating under anti-terrorism laws. She was charged with conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause explosives to be placed in or near a public place
Sydney bomb plotter charged
Shane Kent
Australia
Pled guilty to being a member of a terror cell led by Islamic cleric Abdul Nacer Benbrika, and admitted involvement in the cell’s plan to place bombs at a major football event in Melbourne: the Australian Grand Final in 2005, which attracted nearly 100,000 fans and a TV audience of millions
Australian Islamist admits football terror plot
Shannon James Conlon
Australia 
Ibrahim Siddiq-Conlon Preacher who was charged with child porn offenses and threatening a terrorist attack on Sydney’s Mardi Gras parade, an event which celebrates gay lifestyles and diversity
Muslim radical on child porn, terror threat charges
Joseph Terrence Thomas
Australia
Thomas was the first Australian to be convicted under anti-terrorism laws introduced in Australia after the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States. He was sentenced on 31 March 2006 to five years prison with a non-parole period of two years
Thomas convicted over al-Qaeda funds
Thomas al-J
Austria
25-year-old convert who was arrested in June 2011 and charged with terrorism. Detectives believe he was planning to crash a plane into the Bundestag, German parliament headquarters in Berlin. He has also been accused of recruiting terrorists in order to send them to jihad training camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and of funding terrorist organizations
Austrian National Arrested for Planning Bundestag Attack
Muriel Degauque
Belgium 
Myriam Failed suicide car bomb attack in Iraq. Detonated her explosive vest amid an American military patrol in the town of Baquba, wounding one American soldier
Raised as Catholic in Belgium, She Died as a Muslim Bomber
Pascal Cruypeninck
Belgium
Sentenced in 2008. He convinced his fiancée to convert and tried to get her to go to Iraq on a suicide mission
Belgium became the basis of jihadism in Europe
Wellington Menezes de Oliveira
Brazil
Former Jehovah’s Witness who converted to Islam two years prior to killing twelve children in a school in Rio de Janeiro; lining them up against a wall and shooting them in the head at point-blank range. His motivation for the shootings and his extremist Islamic beliefs went largely unreported in Western-English media Evidence of his conversion can be read
here
Aaron Yoon
Canada
24-year-old Korean-Canadian who was raised a Catholic, but (like his friend Xristos Katsiroubas) converted to Islam a year before his graduation. 2 Canadians and about 30 other Muslim terrorists linked to al-Qaeda staged an attack on an Algerian gas refinery which lasted four days (January 16-19, 2013). The attack left more than three dozen refinery workers dead, the final 10 of whom were reportedly tied to gas plant piping and killed in a massive bomb blast. Yoon found himself in custody on terrorism suspicions in Mauritania
[3] making him unable to take part in the attacks
Canadians in Algeria attack went overseas with 3rd man
John Stewart Nuttall
Canada 
Muhammad
[4] 38-year-old “self-radicalized” convert to Islam. He and his partner built explosive devices they planned to detonate at the provincial parliament buildings on Canada Day. In 2013, they were both charged with conspiring together or with others to place an explosive in a government facility with intent to cause death or serious bodily injury for the benefit of a terrorist group and facilitating a terrorist group. They were also charged with possessing an explosive substance with intent to endanger life or cause serious damage to property for the benefit of a terrorist group
Police thwart plot to bomb B.C. legislature on Canada Day
Steven Vikash Chand
Canada 
Abdul Shakur Chand was one of 17 people accused of being members of an alleged homegrown terrorist cell, plotting attacks in southern Ontario. Chand is officially charged with belonging to a terrorist group, receiving training and recruiting others to participate in terrorist activity
Terror suspect served in Canadian military
Xristos Katsiroubas
Canada
22-year-old from a Greek Orthodox Christian background, but (like his friend Aaron Yoon) converted to Islam sometime in his late teens. Xristos grew up in a home with a backyard swimming pool in a middle-class and ethnically diverse London neighbourhood. He, along with another Canadian and about 30 other Muslim terrorists linked to al-Qaeda staged an attack on an Algerian gas refinery which lasted four days (January 16-19, 2013). The attack left more than three dozen refinery workers dead, the final 10 of whom were reportedly tied to gas plant piping and killed in a massive bomb blast. Sources say it is also likely Katsiroubas and the other Canadian intentionally blew themselves up in the blast
Canadians in Algerian gas plant attack identified
Alexandre D France
21-year-old convert to Islam who stabbed a French soldier in the neck in an attempted copycat attack, inspired by the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby a British soldier in London. He converted to "traditionalist even radical Islam" three or four years prior to the attack, and although he was homeless and unemployed, he "demanded not to work with women" when applying for jobs in Rambouillet
French prosecutor: ‘Radical Muslim’ suspect admits to stabbing soldier
David CourTailler
France
The son of a butcher in Bonneville, a town in the French Alps, CourTailler was raised a Catholic but converted to Islam in 1997 while trying to kick a drug habit during a stay at the British seaside resort of Brighton. He trained in al Qaeda’s notorious Khalden training camp and is linked to a group of Moroccans suspected of involvement in the Madrid bombings which killed 191 people. He recruited volunteers to Afghanistan in the late 90s’ and was found guilty of conspiring with criminals engaged in a terrorist enterprise. David CourTailler is the brother of Jerome CourTailler who was also found guilty on terrorism-related charges
A Paris court has sentenced a French convert to Islam to four years in jail
Jean-Daniel B
France
23-year-old convert who was born to a family in a middle-class area. Made friends as a teenager with youths from the Izards estate, where the Muslim terrorist Mohamed Merah grew up, and announced his conversion to Islam on Christmas Day, 2012. In March 2013, he and his brother (also a convert) left Toulouse, saying they were going on holiday to Thailand. They took a bus to Barcelona and then a ferry to Tunisia. From there, they flew to Turkey and crossed the border into Syria. In August the same year, they caused outrage in France by issuing a call for jihad in an internet video. During their 12-minute appeal for holy war, wearing camouflage fatigues and brandishing Kalashnikovs, they urged President Hollande to embrace Islam and withdraw troops from Mali. They are believed to be 2 of about 270 French Sunni jihadi fighters in Syria
Convert brothers to Islam call for jihad in France
Jeremie Sidney
France
French national who converted to Islam after spending two years in prison for drug dealing. Suspected of a grenade attack on a Jewish market, possibly in retaliation for the US "Innocence of Muslims" video. He was shot and killed by police in Strasbourg after he fired on them, lightly wounding three officers. 11 others were arrested and all of them were French and recent converts to Islam.
France arrests 11, kills one in nationwide anti-terror operation,
1 dead, 10 arrested in anti-terror sweep in France
Jerome CourTailler
France
The son of a butcher in Bonneville, a town in the French Alps, CourTailler was raised a Catholic but converted to Islam in 1997 while trying to kick a drug habit. He trained in al Qaeda’s notorious Khalden training camp. He was first arrested two days after the September 11 attacks but was acquitted by a Rotterdam court in 2002 of involvement in the planning of the proposed attacks on US interests including the Paris embassy. He was later convicted of running a support network for a terrorist group, funded by credit card fraud and dealing in false documents, and given six years in absentia by the Dutch appeal court. Jerome CourTailler is the brother of David CourTailler who was also found guilty on terrorism-related charges
Dutch court jails terror supporters
Nicolas B
France Abu Abd Al Rahman 30-year-old convert who was born to a family in a middle-class area. Made friends as a teenager with youths from the Izards estate, where the Muslim terrorist Mohamed Merah grew up, and converted to Islam in 2009. In March 2013, he and his brother (also a convert) left Toulouse, saying they were going on holiday to Thailand. They took a bus to Barcelona and then a ferry to Tunisia. From there, they flew to Turkey and crossed the border into Syria. In August the same year, they caused outrage in France by issuing a call for jihad in an internet video. During their 12-minute appeal for holy war, wearing camouflage fatigues and brandishing Kalashnikovs, they urged President Hollande to embrace Islam and withdraw troops from Mali. They are believed to be 2 of about 270 French Sunni jihadi fighters in Syria
Convert brothers to Islam call for jihad in France
Ruddy Teranova
France
Convert to Islam who, along with a member of the group "Saïki Omar" (suspected of plotting an attack at the football World Cup in 1998), was sentenced to six months in Jail for physically assaulting Abderrahmane Dahmane, the Chairman of Democratic Muslims in France (CDMF), a moderate Muslim organization
GPSC: terroriste en Algérie, innocent en France?
Robert Richard Pierre
France Abu Abderrahmane Found guilty of recruiting and training terror volunteers, and planning to carry out terror attacks in Morocco and to overthrow the government
Morocco Tries Frenchman On Terrorism Charges
Thomas Barnouin
France Thomas Abdelhakim Initial indoctrination in Southwest France and then at Medina University. Captured by Syrian intelligence officials at an al-Qaeda safe house in Syria. Convicted of "criminal conspiracy for terrorist purposes." He was sentenced along with five other native French converts to Islam
French Converts To Islam Convicted Of Running Iraqi Jihad Network
Willie Virgile Brigitte
France
A French convert to Islam who associated with al-Qaeda in Pakistan and was sentenced to a maximum of nine years for conspiring to blow up Australia's only nuclear reactor and the power grid
Terrorist Willie Brigitte to be freed after serving less than half his jail sentence
Christian Emde
Germany
Converted to Islam in 2003, he was arrested along with another German convert in England and charged with having information which could be of use in terrorism. He pleaded guilty to four offenses under Britain’s Terrorism Act, relating to literature with titles such as “Destroying Buildings” and “Make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom”.
[5] Another called "The ultimate mowing machine" suggested adding blades to a four-wheel drive pickup truck in order to drive through pedestrian areas and "mow down the enemies of Allah"
[6] German converts to Islam in UK court on terrorism charges
Daniel Schneider
Germany
Recruited by the Islamic Jihad Union, and a member of the Sauerland cell who planned to bomb mainly American targets in Germany. Sentenced to 12-years in prison
German Terrorists Sentenced to Prison After Foiled Bomb Attack Germany
Denis Mamadou Cuspert
Germany Abou Maleeq Once a popular rapper in Germany, he became a preacher and was one of the best-known singers of nasheeds in German. Security officials say he was an influential figure who incited violence through inflammatory videos and fiery speeches that praised terrorists and attacked the West. German authorities say people like him inspired the shootings of two American airmen at the Frankfurt airport in March 2011. He joined ISIS in 2014 and was killed in a US strike in October 2015.
Osama’s name flows in our blood: Ex-rapper
Eric Breininger
Germany Abdul Gaffar el-Almani A member of the Islamic Jihad Union who had contacts with the homegrown group of terrorists who plotted to bomb US targets in Germany in 2007. He had appeared in several propaganda videos posted by the IJU and had tried to recruit new members in Germany. He was killed on April 30, 2010, in a firefight with Pakistani troops, becoming the fourth German-born jihadist to have died in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region
German Jihadist Eric Breininger Killed in Pakistan, Group Claims
Fritz Gelowicz
Germany Abdullah Recruited and trained by the Islamic Jihad Union, he was the ringleader of the Sauerland cell who planned to bomb targets in Germany. Sentenced to 12-years in prison
From Fritz to Adbullah: conversion shocks Germans
Harry S.
Germany Isa al-Khattab Issued death threats against Wolfgang Seibert, the head of a small Jewish community in Pinneberg, a town near Hamburg
Head of small Jewish community in Germany receives death threats from Islamist
Pierre Vogel
Germany Abu Hamza Former professional boxer who converted to Islam in 2001. He studied Arabic and the Qur'an at the private school Om Al-Qura in Mecca. Under investigation for his role in attempting to arrange an assassination of Zakid Khana, a former Muslim author critical of Islam. Both the author and Stefan Salim Nagi (the Muslim activist whom Vogel approached) are now in hiding, having received death threats and subsequently given official protection
Muslims in Germany Tried Twin-Track Approach to Silencing Islam-Critical Book Author: Prosecution and Assassination
Robert Baum
Germany
Arrested along with another German convert in England and charged with having information which could be of use in terrorism. Pleaded guilty to one charge
[5] German converts to Islam in UK court on terrorism charges
Steven Smyrek
Germany Abdel Karim Spent two months in a terrorist training camp in order to deal with machine guns and explosives. Convicted of planning a suicide mission for Hezbollah
From small criminals to aspiring holy warriors
Compton Eversley
Guyana Abdel Nur Sunni Muslim convert
[7][8] and the uncle of former world welterweight boxing champion Andrew "Six Heads" Lewis.
[9] Arrested in connection with the failed 2007 JFK Bomb Plot, he pleaded guilty to supporting the plot by attempting to locate an al-Qaeda explosives expert and was sentenced to 15 years
Abdel Nur sentenced in New York JFK airport fuel plot
Michael Seaforth
Guyana Abdul Kadir US citizen and a former Mayor and Parliament member, he was raised as a Catholic in Guyana, but later converted to Islam during his university years. Arrested and convicted for the failed 2007 JFK Bomb Plot,
[10] he was charged with conspiracy to attack a public transportation system, destroy buildings, attack aircraft and aircraft materials, destroy international airport facilities, and attack a mass transportation facility
Better that he turned to Islam than drugs - father
Russell M. Defreitas
Guyana
US citizen and convert to Islam
[7][8] who was the self-proclaimed ringleader behind the failed 2007 JFK Bomb Plot. Arrested in 2007 and convicted in 2010, he had previously worked as a cargo handler at the airport and had hoped the terrorist attack would be bigger than 9/11
Two convicted in JFK airport bomb plot
Laguerre Payen
Haiti
An illegal immigrant to the US who converted to Islam from Roman Catholicism while in prison during the 80's. He was one of four men from Newburgh, NY, who were arrested for the 2009 Bronx terrorism plot, a scheme to shoot down military airplanes flying out of an Air National Guard base in Newburgh, New York and blow up Riverdale Temple and Riverdale Jewish Center in the Bronx
P > Laguerre Payen
Dhiren Barot
India Abu Musa al-Hindi UK citizen, pled guilty to conspiring to murder people in terrorist attacks by targeting major financial institutions in the United States, including the World Bank and International Monetary Fund headquarters in Washington, the New York Stock Exchange and the Citigroup building in Manhattan and also setting off a 'dirty bomb' in the United Kingdom
Dhiren Barot pleads guilty to US, UK bomb plots
Terence Edward Kelly
Ireland Khalid Kelly Converted to Islam after being imprisoned in Saudi Arabia for making alcohol. In November 2009 he said he was "preparing to wage war against British and allied troops in Afghanistan" adding that he had a "divine calling" to kill. Arrested in 2011 for making death threats against US President Barack Obama
[11] Irish convert misunderstands Islam, wants to kill for Allah
Andrea Campione
Italy
28-year-old picture framer who converted to Islam. Arrested on charges of 'incitement to activities with terrorist aims', he sent Mohammed Jarmoune (who was earlier arrested for planning an attack on a synagogue in Milan) and others an email with links to instructions online on carrying out acts of terror. Also wished to travel to Afghanistan to join Taliban fighters
Italian Muslim convert arrested on terror charge
Domenico Quaranta
Italy
29-year-old house painter and convert to Islam, sentenced to twenty years for setting fire to a Milan subway station and trying to attack ancient Greek temples in Agrigento, Sicily
'Free-lance' militants called European threat
Giuliano Delnevo
Italy Ibrahim 20-year-old from Genoa who converted to Islam from a Catholic family. He died in Syria fighting alongside Sunni terrorists. He was under investigation for terrorist recruitment in Genoa at the time of his death.
First Italian jihadi killed in Syria
Germaine Lindsay
Jamaica Jamal Lindsay UK citizen and husband of Samantha Lewthwaite (who would later turn out to be a major terrorist figure and the world's most wanted women). He was one of the suicide bombers in the 7/7 London bombings which killed 52 people and injured hundreds
Suicide bombers' 'ordinary' lives
Kibley Da Costa
Jamaica Abdul Khaliq Brought up in a Christian family, 24-year-old Costa is a UK citizen and Muslim convert who was jailed in 2007 for helping run terror training camps in the New Forest and Berkshire
Profiles: Mohammed Hamid and his followers
Lee Boyd Malvo (aka. John Lee Malvo)
Jamaica
An illegal immigrant to the US, he carried out the 2002 Beltway sniper attacks, killing 10 people. Malvo, along with John Allen Muhammad, was arrested in connection with the attacks on October 24, 2002, following tips from alert citizens. He depicted their crimes in his art as "jihad" in America and had said they were meant "to terrorize the nation"
[12] Malvo sketches depicted 'jihad'
Robert Mustaq John
Jamaica
A Jamaican convert to Islam living in the states illegally. Convicted of sending a death threat by e-mail to blogger Debbie Schlussel, which consisted of pictures of American journalist Daniel Pearl in mid-beheading and other states of pre-rigor mortis. Also included in the subject line was the following: "JEWgirl, you might be next", and in red capital letters the words "KILL ALL KIKES"
“Religion of Peace”: Muslim Indicted, Another Guilty for Death Threats Against Schlussel
Trevor Forrest
Jamaica Sheikh Abdullah el-Faisal His parents belonged to the Christian evangelical group Salvation Army, but he converted to Islam after being introduced to the faith by a school teacher at about 16. He preached in a London mosque attended by convicted terrorists and was imprisoned in Britain for nearly four and a half years for inciting murder and stirring racial hatred with sermons titled "No peace with the Jews" and "Them versus Us." In one recorded sermon, he told followers that "the way forward is the bullet." On another, he said jihadists should use "chemical weapons to exterminate the unbelievers"
Leaked US cables portray worries that Jamaica could become incubator for Islamic extremism
Wadih el-Hage
Lebanon Abd'al Sabur A member of al-Qaida. Became a mujahideen fighter in Afghanistan. Linked to the killing of Dr. Rashad Khalifa. A weapon purchased by him was also used in the killing of rabbi Meir Kahane. Believed to have become a key aide to Bin Laden & also to have been trying to obtain chemical weapons for the terrorist group. 1 of 4 involved in the 1998 United States embassy bombings. Found guilty of belonging to a worldwide conspiracy to kill Americans and destroy U.S. property
Four embassy bombers get life
Jermaine Walters
Netherlands
Hofstad member and brother of convicted terrorist Jason Walters. Arrested (aged 17) in connection with a plot to assassinate Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali during a New Year's 2005 celebration
The 'Hofstad' group - background and profiles
Jason Walters
Netherlands Jamal Walters Hofstad member. Arrested, after a long 14 hour siege in The Hague, where hand grenades were thrown at police. Walters planned to assassinate Dutch political figures he deemed anti-Muslim, including Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Geert Wilders. Both, outspoken critics of Islam. Convicted on charges of terrorism
From Quiet Teen to Terrorist Suspect
Unnamed male (due to young age)
Netherlands Maik R Sent threatening emails to Lower House members Hirsi Ali and Geert Wilders. He had also hidden a self made explosive device in his parents home. An Amsterdam court has placed him in a juvenile pyschiatric hospital
Dutch convert to Islam who made bombs and threatened politicians had 'obsessive identification' with Islam
Not released
Norway Muslim Abu Abdurrahman 33-year-old who converted in 2008 and was recruited by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). He received terrorist training over several months in Yemen. Britain's Sunday Times newspaper reported, citing intelligence sources, that Al-Qaeda intend to use him in an attack on a US airliner
Al-Qaeda's Norwegian 'was left-wing radical'
Angelo Ramirez Trinidad
Philippines Abu Khalil Trinidad A member of the Rajah Sulaiman Movement (a terrorist group comprising of Christian converts to Islam), and also a member of an Abu Sayyaf cell. Trinidad and an accomplice conducted the February 2005 Valentine's Day bombing of a passenger bus in Manila that killed six and wounded over 100. He assembled the bomb, helped plant it on the bus and triggered it by cell phone. He was convicted of the bombing in October 2005. He was also positively identified as having participated with the ASG in the April 2000 kidnappings of 21 foreign tourists and Malaysian workers from Sipadan Island, Malaysia
Angelo Ramirez Trinidad (The Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee)
Dinno Amor Rosalejos Pareja
Philippines Khalil Pareja Aminah The key operative in the August 2005 twin bombings in Zamboanga City, the Philippines, which wounded 26 people, Pareja assumed a senior leadership role of the Rajah Sulaiman Movement (a terrorist group comprising of Christian converts to Islam) in 2005 following the arrests of its founder and second-in-command. In November 2006, Pareja led a group in casing bombing targets in Cebu City, the Philippines, for an attack planned to coincide with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit. In 2004, the RSM founder entrusted him with the groups funds
More Philippine terror arrests
Feliciano Semborio Delos Reyes Jr.
Philippines Ustadz Abubakar Delos Reyes A founding member and a senior leader of the Rajah Sulaiman Movement (a terrorist group comprising of Christian converts to Islam). In 2006, Reyes conducted military and counterintelligence training in the Philippines for students of an ASG and JI-linked educational center. He reportedly joined with Abu Sayyaf in 2003 to plan and prepare a proposed bombing in Manila. Also participated in the 2003 Awang airport bombing near Cotabato City, the Philippines, which killed 1 soldier and wounded 3 civilians. He was arrested Reyes in December 2006
Feliciano Semborio Delos Reyes Jr. (The Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee)
Hilarion del Rosario
Philippines Ahmad Islam Santos Founder of the Rajah Sulaiman Movement, a radical group of Muslim converts from Christianity, responsible for the sinking of a ferry near Manila in which 116 people died in February 2004, the worst terror attack in the mainly Roman Catholic country. Suspected of planning further attacks during the long holiday which marks the Roman Catholic All Saints Day and the end of Ramadan for Muslims
Philippines says arrests Islamic militant leader
Pio Abogne De Vera
Philippines Ismael de Vera Believed to be the second-in-command of the Rajah Sulaiman Movement (a terrorist group comprising of Christian converts to Islam). He participated in terrorist acts conducted by Jemaah Islamiyah, and played an active role in a plot to bomb civilian targets in Manila in 2005. In a disrupted plot, he purchased and transported explosives and scouted targets frequented by Americans and other foreign nationals. De Vera also was one of two persons tasked with executing another aborted plot to bomb several targets in Luzon, the Philippines, including telecommunications and power facilities
Pio Abogne De Vera (The Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee)
Redendo Cain Dellosa
Philippines Habil Ahmad Dellosa One of the leaders of the Rajah Sulaiman Movement (a terrorist group comprising of Christian converts to Islam), as well as a member of Abu Sayyaf. He led the 2004 Manila ferry bombing which killed 116 people. He was tasked by an ASG leader to devise a plan to kill Philippine Vice Presidential candidate Loren Legarda. Dellosa admitted that he decided to place a bomb at one of her campaign stops. He was arrested and charged with participation in the 2001 kidnapping of 20 people, several of whom were killed, from the Dos Palmas resort in Palawan, the Philippines
Redendo Cain Dellosa (The Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee)
Ricardo Perez Ayeras
Philippines Abdul Kareem Ayeras A member of the Rajah Sulaiman Movement (a terrorist group comprising of Christian converts to Islam). A central player in the 2005 "Big Bang" plot to bomb civilian targets in Manila, he was to drive the bomb-laden car, staying with it as a suicide bomber, if necessary. He also helped purchase the explosives for the plot. In addition, several thousand US dollars, probably destined for the same attack, were channeled through Ayeras's ATM account. He was arrested for his role in the 2005 Valentine's Day bombing of a passenger bus in Manila that killed 6 and wounded over 100
Ricardo Perez Ayeras (The Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee)
Ruben Pestano Lavilla Jr.
Philippines Sheik Omar Lavilla A founding member of the Rajah Sulaiman Movement (a terrorist group comprising of Christian converts to Islam), believed to have taken over as RSM's political, religious and strategic leader following Santos's arrest. Lavilla is considered RSM' s spiritual advisor. Lavilla channeled funds to RSM from personal Arab contacts. At some point before 2003, Lavilla also personally couriered approximately US $200,000. He was part of the Abu Sayyaf-sponsored cell that carried out the 2004 Manila ferry bombing which killed 116 people. Arrested in Bahrain in 2008 and deported to the Philippines
Bahrain deports top terrorist to Philippines
Tyrone del Rosario Santos
Philippines Dawud Santos The brother of Ahmad Islam Santos, founder of the Rajah Sulaiman Movement (a terrorist group comprising of Christian converts to Islam). He was arrested in 2005 for illegal possession of firearms and explosives. Santos was released on bail and immediately disappeared. In a radio phone interview aired in the Southern Philippines, in what is known as the "Julius Babao-Dawud Santos affair", he denied being a terrorist
Julius Babao-Dawud Santos affair
Christian Ganczarski
Poland
Al-Qaeda member. Responsible for recruiting fighters in Krefeld and Essen in West Germany. Charged under the nation's "association with terrorism" legislation for his role in the April 11, 2002, bombing of the Ghriba synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia. The attack claimed 21 lives, including 14 German and two French nationals
Polish-Born Muslim Convert Sentenced for Leading Role in Tunisian Synagogue Bombing
Aminat Saprykina
Russia Aminat Kurbanova A theater actress and member of a breakdance troupe before marrying her fist husband, Marat Kurbanov, converting to Islam and joining Dagestan's radical Islamist insurgency. After Marat was killed in an anti-terrorism operation in 2009, Kurbanova married her last husband, Magomed Ilyasov, who also died when handling a self-made bomb. In 2012 she became a 'black widow' suicide bomber in an attack targeting a moderate Sufi leader and killing 7 people including a child
'Black Widow' Bomber Was Actress, Dancer
Andre Vladimirovich Bataloff
Russia
A 27-year-old convert from Siberia with a "flowing red beard, pasty skin and piercing blue eyes". He was arrested in Afghanistan in a truck carrying 1,000 pounds of explosives. At the time, he had disguised himself in a burqa, the traditional form of Islamic dress worn by Afghan women. Planned to carry out a suicide bombing
Foreign Fighters of Harsher Bent Bolster Taliban
Aleksandr Tikhomirov
Russia Said Buryatskiy Converted to Islam (possibly from Buddhism) at the age of 15 and was killed during a special operation in the Russian Republic of Ingushetia. Investigators believe Buryatsky turned to jihad in 2008, when he returned to Russia after studying in Egypt and Qatar and joined the head of militants Doku Umarovwas. He personally trained suicide bombers and is believed to have been responsible for 15 terrorist acts committed against the state authorities, local government and civilians, including the derailment of the luxury high-speed Nevsky Express train traveling from Moscow to St. Petersburg in November 2009. Buryatsky’s name had also been mentioned in connection with a number of big terrorist acts in Russia, including the attempt on Ingush President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov in June 2009 when a suicide bomber smashed a bomb-laden car into Yevkurov's armored Mercedes, killing the driver and a bodyguard in the blast
ROAR: Militants in North Caucasus lose another “ideologue”
Dmitry Sokolov
Russia Abdul Jabbar A young Muscovite convert to Islam who was recruited by Naida Asiyalova, a female suicide bomber who was married to a millitant leader. Sokolov became a skilled bomber respected by Islamic militants and is wanted in Dagestan for taking part in two terrorist explosions, in which at least 29 people were injured
Terrorist blast kills 6, injures over 30 in Volgograd, central Russia
Naida Asiyalova
Russia
A female convert from Dagestan who was the wife of a militant leader. She had only recently converted to Islam before becoming a suicide bomber responsible for setting off a bomb on a bus in Volgograd, central Russia, killing six people and injuring 37, including a 20-month-old toddler
Terrorist blast kills 6, injures over 30 in Volgograd, central Russia
Pavel Kosolapov
Russia
Converted to Islam in the 1990's and became a close associate of Shamil Basayev, the terrorist mastermind behind the Beslan school siege. He was one of four, accused of blowing up the Moscow to St Petersburg Nevsky Express train in 2007, which injured sixty passengers, thirty of whom required hospitalization. Also suspected by Russian authorities of planning several suicide operations in Chechnya. According to Russian authorities, he was also responsible for the train bombing in November 2009 in Russia which killed 25 people
Top terrorist warlord linked to 2007 train bombing,
Former soldier suspected of train bombing
Tatyana Tarasova
Russia
Joined the interregional "Islamic Committee" movement, a Muslim advocacy group, as the deputy chairman in 2005. She also started administering its website. Pled guilty in 2012 and was sentenced to 1.5 years of probation for posting an article promoting terrorism. According to investigators, after her conversion, Tarasova had began supporting radical Islamic views and the idea of committing terrorist acts against non-Muslims in an effort to unite the Muslim world under a "global Islamic caliphate"
Radical Islamist sentenced to probation for terrorism promotion
Vitaly Razdobudko
Russia
Convert from Christianity. Razdobudko is wanted by authorities for organising the Moscow airport suicide bombing which took the lives of 35 and injured more than a hundred
Moscow airport bomber converted by Russian imam: report
Vladimir Khodov
Russia Abdullah Joined the Taliban training camp in Galashki (Ingushetia). Caught on film and identified as the prime suspect behind a terrorist attack in Vladikavkaz, which killed an army cadet and a female civilian. Also considered to have been one of the leaders in the Beslan school hostage crisis
Suspect behind Feb 3 bombing in Vladikavkaz named
William Plotnikov
Russia
Born to Christian parents, Plotnikov was a former boxing champion who immigrated to Canada at the age 15 and converted to Islam in 2009-2010. He was killed by Russian security forces during a gun battle in Dagestan in July 2012. At the age of 23, he became the first known Canadian convert to die fighting in the name of jihad
The Canadian who converted to jihad: Boxer turned militant killed in Dagestan
Kerim Chatty
Sweden
Was suspected of attempted hijacking of an aircraft in 2002. He was subsequently released from police custody and the preliminary inquiry regarding attempted hijacking was dropped.
Chatty was arrested at the Stockholm-Västerås Airport on August 29, 2002, as he was trying to board a Ryanair Flight 685 headed to the London Stansted Airport, with a loaded pistol in his hand luggage, contained in a bag of toiletries
Raised eyebrows at the decision by a court in Sweden to order the release of a suspected hijacker
Albert Friedrich Armand Huber
Switzerland Ahmed Huber A Swiss German journalist and a member of the liberal Social Democratic Party of Switzerland. He converted to Islam and retained his Nazi beliefs which he considered complimentary to one another. He gained international notoriety in 2001 when he was accused by the United States government of funding Al Qaeda's terrorist activities through the Al Taqwa Bank, of which he was one of five managers
Ahmed Huber
Anthony Green
Tanzania Abdur Raheem Green British Islamic preacher who claims he is not an extremist. Told students that it was difficult to argue with the views of Osama bin Laden and said “terrorism works” during a speech at a university in London.
[13] Also wrote on his website that adultery and homosexuality must be treated “harshly” to protect society and that “a slow and painful death by stoning” is the punishment
[14] Abdur Raheem Green: Imperious Islam
Glenn Neville Ford
Trinidad and Tobago
Convert to Islam who immigrated to Canada in the mid-1970’s. The leader of Jamaat ul-Fuqra, he was one of five men arrested in 1993, accused, and convicted of plotting to bomb a Hindu temple and Indian theatre in Toronto, Canada. He was convicted for his crimes and served his sentence. He was released in April 2006
Pre 9/11 Massive Terror Plot Targetting 4,500 Hindus and Sikhs in Toronto Forgotten
Lennox Philip
Trinidad and Tobago Yasin Abu Bakr The leader of the Jamaat al Muslimeen, a Muslim group in Trinidad and Tobago. The group has long-standing links with Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi. Under the leadership of Abu Bakr and Bilaal Abdullah, the group staged an attempted coup d’état in 1990
Trinidad Muslims Being Closely Monitored
Winston Kingston
Trinidad and Tobago Kareem Ibrahim Convert to Sunni Islam who later adopted Shi'ite Islam in the 1970s,
[7] he is an imam and leader of the Shi'ite Muslim community in Trinidad. Convicted in 2011 for "conspiring to blow up the fuel lines and fuel tanks at Kennedy Airport in a fiery attack that would rival 9/11"
Brooklyn jury convicts Imam Kareem Ibrahim in Kennedy Airport plot
Andrew Ibrahim
United Kingdom
Quantities of Hexamethylene Triperoxide Diamine (HMTD), a homemade explosive, along with two homemade vests, ball bearings, air gun pellets, nails and screws, wired circuitry, batteries and electric bulb filaments found at residence
White British Converts to Islam Pose Suicide-Bombing Threat in UK
Brian Young
United Kingdom Umar Islam One of a group of plotters with apparent ties to Pakistan. The group planned to smuggle liquid explosives onto between 6 and 10 airliners departing the UK bound for the US. The bombers would detonate the explosives en route. Charged with Conspiracy to commit murder and acts of terrorism. Pled guilty to the allegation of conspiring to inflict public problems
Three plead guilty to jet bomb plot
Don Stewart-Whyte
United Kingdom Abdul Waheed Half-brother to model Heather Stewart-Whyte and one of a group of plotters with apparent ties to Pakistan. The group planned to smuggle liquid explosives onto between 6 and 10 airliners departing the UK bound for the US. The bombers would detonate the explosives en route. Charged with preparing acts of terrorism. He is also charged with possession of a firearm, silencer and magazine clip
My love for terror suspect
Graham Adams
United Kingdom Ahmed Khalid Ibrahim Converted to Islam at the age of 18. He was arrested in 2007 by Kenyan police as part of an anti-terrorism operation. Adams was questioned about links to six Kenyan terror suspects who were arrested while in possession of illegal grenades in the capital's Eastleigh estate. He admitted one of the suspects was "a business contact in Nairobi"
Briton who converted to Islam arrested by Kenyan anti-terror police after arms seized
Jack Roche
United Kingdom
Jemaah Islamiah member and Al-Qaeda associate, personally acquainted with Osama bin Laden. Pleaded guilty and was convicted of plotting to bomb the Israeli embassy in Canberra, Australia's capital city
British-born man admits bomb plot
Mark Townley United Kingdom Ashraf Islam 30-year-old Northern Irish man who converted to Islam during his time in prison in 2010, and afterwards travelled to the Middle East. He confessed to the police (and later plead guilty at Uxbridge Magistrates Court) that he planned to kidnap and murder Prince Harry the day after the Woolwich terror attack. Police seized his computer and found he had searched the internet for information on "guns", "vans," and "kidnapping" and visited extremist and firearms websites. He was charged under Section 16 of the Offences against the Person Act, which carries a possible jail term of up to 10 years, following an investigation by the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command unit
Muslim Convert Confesses to Prince Harry Kidnap-Murder Plot
Matthew Newton
United Kingdom
Convicted of preparing for acts of terrorism and disseminating terrorist publications. He, along with another Muslim, tried to recruit undercover police to fight British soldiers in Afghanistan
Two convicted of terror planning in Manchester