2006 Cheetham Hill terrorism arrests

Anti-terrorism operation in Manchester, England November 2019 The 2006 Cheetham Hill terrorism arrests was an anti-terrorism operation in the United Kingdom, in which Habib Ahmed, a taxi driver, was arrested by six policemen at his home in Cheetham Hill, Manchester on 23 August 2006 on suspicion of his involvement in a plan to attack on an individual.http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/221/221589_city_terror_swoop_man_held.html 24 August 2006 City terror swoop: Man held John Scheerhout 2006-11-02 Manchester Evening News He appeared in court in London on 21 September accused of collecting information about potential terrorist targets and traveling to Pakistan earlier this year for terrorism training, after the full 28-day period of arrest without charge allowed under the Terrorism Act 2006.https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/london-teens-in-court-on-terror-charges-over-plot-to-join-isis-in-syria-a3475991.html 26 September 2006 Woman in court on terror charges This is London 2006-11-02 https://web.archive.org/web/20060926003539/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/newsheadlines/article-23368131-details/Woman+in+court+on+terror+charges/article.do 26 September 2006 live dmy-all His wife, Mehreen Haji, was arrested on 19 September and charged with supplying £4000 to Habib Ahmed "knowing or having reasonable suspicion that it would, or might be used for the purposes of terrorism". Police claimed the pair were members of Al-Muhajiroun, the Islamic militant group founded by radical Muslim cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed who was then serving a jail sentence for inciting terrorism.http://www.theasiannews.co.uk/news/s/218/218172_couple_on_terror_charges.html 2 October 2006 Couple on terror charges 2006-11-02 Asian News https://web.archive.org/web/20061124041659/http://www.theasiannews.co.uk/news/s/218/218172_couple_on_terror_charges.html 2006-11-24 dead In March 2007, Habib and Mehreen Haji appeared at the Central Criminal Court in London. Habib was accused of receiving weapons training for terrorism in Pakistan and having information likely to be useful for terrorism, while Mehreen was accused of raising money to be used for terrorism. Habib was remanded in custody for likely trial in January 2008 while Mehreen was released on bail.https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6511685.stm Couple deny terrorist activities BBC News 30 March 2007 Two further men, both friends of Ahmed, were arrested at 6am on 2 September from houses in Cheetham Hill as part of the same investigation,http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article1269618.ece 14 terror suspects arrested in London The Independent Press Association 2006-11-02 2 September 2006 https://web.archive.org/web/20070930184623/http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article1269618.ece 2007-09-30 dead but were released without charge two weeks later. They could not explain why they had been arrested; according to the family of one of the freed men, he was a member of Al Muhajiroun when he was younger, but now had nothing to do with the group. In September 2007, Raingzieb Ahmed, an associate of Habib Haji from Fallowfield, Manchester was deported to the UK and arrested on arrival. He had been in custody in Pakistan. He was charged with directing a terrorist organization, possessing information which would be useful to a terrorist and possessing a rucksack which contained traces of explosives.https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7002132.stm Man charged with terror offences BBC News 19 September 2007 Both Habib Ahmed and Rangzieb Ahmed were both found guilty of being members of al-Qaeda in December 2008. Mehreen Haji was cleared of two counts of arranging funding for the purposes of terrorism.https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7789773.stm Briton guilty of directing terror BBC News 18 December 2008 See also Terrorism in the United Kingdom References Category:2006 in the United Kingdom Category:Counterterrorism in the United Kingdom Category:History of Manchester Cheetham Hill Category:2000s in Manchester Category:2000s crimes in Manchester Category:August 2006 in the United Kingdom Category:2006 crimes in the United Kingdom