Two ISIS Supporters Sentenced to Life Over Planned Attack on Jews in U.K.

Walid Saadaoui, 38, was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 37 years after being convicted of preparing acts of terrorism; Amar Hussein, 52, was given life with a minimum term of 26 years for the same offence. Police said the plot, aimed at the Jewish community in Manchester, was foiled at a late stage in what an assistant chief constable called "one of the most significant terrorist plot disruptions we have seen in the U.K.

for several years." Prosecutors presented evidence that Saadaoui closed his Italian restaurant in Great Yarmouth in March 2023 while telling customers on social media he wanted to spend more time with family. In a recorded phone call, he said he had considered attacks in Tunisia and later in Britain, and that after Oct.

7, 2023, he had settled on targeting Manchester’s Jewish population and planned to use a gun to "kill as many as possible." British security services monitored Saadaoui from 2023 and an undercover officer known as "Farouk" gained his trust.

United Kingdom, Manchester

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