His conviction at Woolwich Crown Court, South London, goes some way to explain howso many men, often born and raised here, have become terrorists.On one camp, after the 7/7 bombings on the Tube and a bus in London in 2005, Hamidscoffed at the death toll of 52, saying: "That's not even breakfast for me."The prayer meetings and courses he ran with British-born Atilla Ahmet, a former henchman of Abu Hamza, were the start of a conveyor belt for pupils which ended intraining camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan.There, students would be radicalised further by Al Qaeda.
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Terror teacher: Fanatic Mohammed HamidSome would be sent to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq. Others, such as Hamid's protegeMuktar Ibrahim, the ringleader of the failed bomb plot of July 21, 2005, would be posted back to the UK to plot attacks here.Ibrahim and fellow bombers Yassin Omar, Ramzi Mohamed and Hussain Osman, firstcame to the police's attention on a camp which Hamid was leading in the Lake District inMay 2004, 14 months before their failed attacks on the Tube.In October 2004, Ibrahim and Hamid, a married father-of-six, were arrested for publicorder offences in Oxford Street, London.
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