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Rajan Basra
@rajanbasra
Researching how terrorists think and act. @ICSR_centre Fellow / @WarStudies PhD and postdoc / Studying cycles of violence and peace with @XCEPT_Research
Nov 3, 2022 • 31 tweets • 12 min read
On October 30th, a man threw petrol bombs at an immigration centre in Dover, injuring two. Minutes later he killed himself.

Three days on, the attack has been largely forgotten.

But it's worth taking a closer look at what he posted online, and what it says about radicalisation: The moment Andrew Leak threw a petrol bomb out of his car window. Photo by Peter Nicholls from Reuters (@pbanicholls) The earliest posts online are from a 2014 twitter account, with just 4 tweets.

His first message was “I love the world”.

A day later: “It’s time to intern all radical Muslims”.

That’s quite the one-two. The remaining tweets were about jihadists and grooming gangs. Image