https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15505629/Convicted-terrorist-bomb-British-consulate-Abu-Hamza-Birmingham.htmlA convicted terrorist who was jailed for plotting to blow up the British embassy and had links to hook-handed hate preacher Abu Hamza intends to stand as a candidate in Birmingham's local elections.Shahid Butt, 60, said he wants to 'unify the people' and push back against the far right when he stands for election in Sparkhill, in the upcoming Birmingham City Council elections, which will be held in May.However his candidacy is marred by controversy.Butt was convicted by a court in Yemen in 1999 after prosecutors said he was part of a militant group planning attacks on Western targets, including the British consulate in Aden, an Anglican church, and a Swiss-owned hotel.The then 33-year-old - who was born in Pakistan before moving to Birmingham at an early age with his parents - was sentenced to five years in prison for associating with armed groups, 'plotting murder and destruction', and possessing weapons.The case involved eight Britons and two Algerians and was linked to Islamist militants operating in the Middle Eastern country.During proceedings, it was heard that Butt and the group had been sent to Yemen by Abu Hamza, the hook-handed and one-eyed British hate preacher who is now serving a life sentence in the USA after being extradited in 2012 on terrorism charges.The defendants were said to have trained at a militant camp run by national Zein al-Abidine al-Mihdar, who was later sentenced to death for his role in the 1998 kidnapping of 16 Western tourists.Four hostages - three Britons and one Australian - were killed during a rescue attempt by Yemeni security forces.During Butt's trial, the defendants claimed they had been tortured into confessing.But the court rejected the claims, ruling there was no link between the torture allegations and the evidence relied upon by the prosecution.
The would-be councillor served his sentence in full and was released aged 38 in December 2003, returning to the UK under escort from a British consular official.There is no public record that his conviction was ever quashed.Prior to his conviction for terrorism, Butt was one of the founding members of the Lynx gang, which participated in violent street fights with Far Right racists, resulting in him being sent to prison. In the early 1990s he travelled to Bosnia as an aid worker, before joining the foreign fighter ranks of the Bosnian army. He also travelled to Afghanistan and Kashmir during this time, before being sent to Yemen. Since returning to Britain, Butt has given talks in schools and at public meetings about radicalisation and his past experiences, which he said serves as a warning to others.Despite his criminal past, Butt, a father-of-five and grandfather-of-two, is seeking election in the forthcoming Birmingham City Council elections.He will stand under the Independent Candidate Alliance (ICA), backed by Akhmed Yakoob, a Birmingham solicitor and former parliamentary candidate in Ladywood, and Birmingham activist Shakeel Afsar.
>>1484655>Served his sentence>Has pretty much no support>Running as independentOh no, who fucking cares?
>>1484661so hypothetically if he had enough people voting for him you'd be fine with a terrorist taking over a city councilsays alot about younice appeal to triviality and ignoring the core problems that a terrorist can run for election.
>>1484666>so hypothetically if he had enough people voting for him you'd be fine with a terrorist taking over a city councilIf he has enough votes he gets in the council. Same principle that let a convicted felon become president here in the US. >ignoring the core problems that a terrorist can run for election.Then go make it a disqualifying factor. As far as the law is concerned he served his sentence. Not that he's going to win either.
Acts like a butt. Smells like a butt. Is named Butt.Sometimes God just presents the information to you.
>>1484668US doesn't let foreigners run for presidents nor does it let actual felons.you're just mad you're a dipshit loser
>>1484679>US doesn't let foreigners run for presidents nor does it let actual felons.Well that latter one is wrong considering the guy currently in the white house got found guilty on 30+ counts.
>>1484680not convicted you can get indicted on anything.idiot
>>1484681Yeah no, Trump was found guilty on 30+ counts.
>>1484709by a grand jury who'd indict a sandwitch.lmao ur such a moron
>>1484709>>1484710gotta love how leftists preach about we have a right to protest buh buh buhbut are celebrating violating trump's sixth amendment right by having jurors who sent him death threats be allowed in after they pinky swore they could be unbiased
>>1484709Oh I didn't realize Trump was found guilty on 30 countsHow much time was he sentenced to and how much time did he end up serving?
>>1484716he was found guilty of millions of felonies. millions and millions. no one's seen these kind of felonies before.
>>1484716>Guys he escaped punishment that totally equals not being a convicted felon
5 comments in and a thread about a terrorist running for council in the UK has changed into an argument about Trump.
>>1484716>>1484725The biggest and best felonies. They said to me, "Donald, the biggest and the best." They did say that to me, the biggest and the best we've ever seen, we couldn't have done it without you.>>1484728FYI all those NY "felonies" have been fully dismissed. Felonies in quotes because literally everything was a misdemeanor at most, but they turned them into felonies by saying there was some deeper conspiracy attached as if it was RICO.
>>1484736No one's ever falsified business records like Donald. Some of the hardest records to falsify, I'm told, maybe, in the history of falsifying records. Tremendous records. Sleepy Joe couldn't falsify records like that.
>>1484709And what were those counts? List the crimes.
>>1484728If he is a convicted felon is it really weird for me to ask how much time he was sentenced to for those felonies, and ask how much time he ultimately served?Derek Chauvin is a convicted felon. He was convicted of the Felony of second degree murder on George Floyd. He is serving 22.5 years for second degree murder.
>>1484750They were duplicate charges for the act of falsifying business records to pay off a prostitute. Basically a big nothing burger.
>>1484756.... Yeah anon I know. I wanted HIM to list them so we could go through how dumb the charges were and how they're misdemeanors transformed into felonies because Orange Man Bad.
>>1484750>>1484751>>1484756>>1484760you know you won't become a billionaire no matter how much you ride rich meat right
>>1484767And you won't be the governmentIf the government taxes billionaires more it doesn't mean you get the money. It doesn't mean the money necessarily helps anyone either. We've been spending billions on arming Israel and Ukraine. So a billionaire pays more money in taxes, and we spend more money on bombs to drop on Gaza and Russia
>>1484786>weLOL
>>1484666>666>a member of the far right National Front got just 86 votes in a past election>the Labour candidate in the same constituency was re-elected with nearly 19,000 votes: and an increased majorityLike this terrorist - but enough of the far right in UK that are officially terrorists after what happened to the Atomwaffen Division-linked National Action - you've got the devil's chance of your opinion winning as much as the thing in the OP article.So how is it that Nigey FaRAGE's (Un)Reform(ed) lost two by-elections - since Labour's huge Conservative-destroying win in 2024 - and the only way they've gotten two more MPs is by defections from the Conservatives: and both of them aren't white?
>>1484786Finally, you're the first person I've seen to actually understand this.
>>1484916I was told I'd get my own road.
