Restaurant owner sold business to purchase guns for attack on UK Jewry, court told
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Walid Saadaoui was said to have sold the Albatross Restaurant in eastern England to purchase firearms to use on an attack on Manchester’s Jewry, prosecutors told Preston Crown Court last week. Inspired by ISIS, Saadoui had reportedly planned to purchase four AK-47 rifles, two handguns and 1,200 rounds of ammunition to carry out a mass shooting on Jewish targets in the city. Unknowingly organizing to purchase the weapons from an undercover officer, Saadoui was arrested in a Bolton hotel car park during the firearm delivery, according to media reports.  Prosecutor Kelly Brocklehurst told jurors that Saadaoui used at least 10 accounts to post ISIS propaganda from 2022 onwards. Another, shared in June 2023, read: “Should you be martyred or die in the cause of Allah, then his forgiveness and mercy are far better than whatever wealth those who stay behind accumulated.” Amar Hussein, 52, was also charged with preparing terrorist acts, while Saadaoui's brother Bilel Saadaoui, 36, is charged with failing to disclose information about acts of terrorism. All three have pleaded not guilty and jurors were told that the planned attack was unrelated to the terror attack against Manchester’s Jewry on Yom Kippur.   |
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