Exclusive: London Bridge killer penned letter in jail asking for deradicalisation course to be a 'good British citizen' - ITV News itv.com/news/2019-11-3…
1. letter obtained by ITV News, Khan said: “I would like to do such a course so I can prove to the authorities, my family and soicity (sic) in general that I don’t carry the views I had before my arrest...
2. ... and also I can prove that at the time I was immature, and now I am much more mature and want to live my life as a good Muslim and also a good citizen of Britain.”
3. However, that intervention didn’t come during his prison sentence and neither did come after. From what I found out, seemingly due to administrative tussle. Some have suggested that probation services were ill equipped to deal with the likes of Usman Khan.
4. And of course doesn’t exclude the policy that he was dissimulating. However one wonders what the outcome could have been had there been people working on him inside prison. And whether there are issues within the prison system itself....
5. Do prison staff have the requisite experience to deal with the likes of him and many others and are we ready to receive British IS prisoners?
6. Here is the letter below: note when it was written in 2012- so many questions come up. Should there have been intervention inside prison? Did he get hardened inside prison? Was the letter all pretend? 
7. Criminal justice source: Usman Khan was enrolled on Govt ‘Prevent’ de-radicalisation course & banned from City of London under terms of probation but invited to attend event in central London as part of ‘Prevent’ course, so that condition lifted
8. What role did the parole services have in Usman Khan’s release? Statement by parole board below:
9. Some are suggesting that Usman Khan was an ISIS instead of I being AQ but I am not sure you can make that clear distinction. The line between the two are blurred. as some Jihadists say AQ and IS are from the same mother.
10. Court documents suggest that AQ was the spark that inspired him so it does not necessarily follow that because his behaviour mimiced the attack of IS supporter that he is one.
11. For more on an oft cited article I wrote on dealing with radicalisation in prisons: dealing with Muslim inmates - see here: joshualandis.com/blog/prison-ra…
12. Let’s not forget the victims:
13. Really thoughtful thread on managing released terror prisoners.
14. IS claims London Bridge attacks but can also be a clear case of opportunism. Usman Khan is dead so can’t reply. Via @p_vanostaeyen
15. Additional statement by Assistant commissioner Neil Basu on London Bridge attack: so far no one else involved. news.met.police.uk/news/further-s…
17. Interview with Vajahat Sharif the lawyer for Usman Khan- makes some important watch: -
18. New - Khan went on a DPP program on release but in Belmarsh he he had refused to attend a risk assessment formulation and didn’t want to engage in de-rad program
19. “There were serious deficiencies in almost every aspect of the management of terrorist offenders through the system that are relevant to Usman Khan...” says @NotThatBigIan Or Ian Acheson who did a study of prisons in 2015-
thetimes.co.uk/article/bef7c3…
thetimes.co.uk/article/bef7c3…
20. Acheson continues ...”Frontline prison staff were vulnerable to attack and were ill-equipped to counter hateful extremism on prison landings for fear of being accused of racism.”
21. ...”Prison imams did not possess the tools, and sometimes the will, to combat Islamist ideology. The prison service’s intelligence-gathering system was hopelessly fractured and ineffectual.” Pertinent points
On a side note Interesting thread here by an eyewitness on Usman Khan’s killing - just putting it here for future ref:
22. “Forty percent cuts on prison services are going to tell” says Shami Chakrabarti on the London Bridge attack:
23. London Bridge attack has been so politicised:
24. Johnson blames Labour for letting Usman Khan out. itv.com/news/2019-12-0…
25. Corbyn on counter terrorism:
21. Messed up the thread.
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26. And this one is for the haters. There are also unknown unassuming heroes - Mohammed pinned Usman Khan down during break and then went back to washing dishes. google.co.uk/amp/s/www.mirr…
27. Interesting thread: Doug Weeks is an expert on Al-Mohajiroun (the emigrants an offshoot of Hizb it-tahrir - the party of liberation) and was at Usman Khan’s trial.
28. Thoughtful piece by @CruickshankPaul and @TimListerCNN on the conundrum of the likes of Usman Khan - edition.cnn.com/2019/12/01/uk/…
