Omar Khyam

Omar Khyam is a citizen of the United Kingdom, who led a terrorist plot in May 2007.[1][2][3][4] He was trained in bomb-making at the Malakand training camp in Pakistan in 2001 or 2002. He was the ringleader of a plot to explode a fertilizer bomb in London. He was moved to HM Prison Full Sutton, near York, in March 2008.[5]

This article is about a living citizen of the United Kingdom. For the poet of Persia and author of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam, see Omar Khayyam.
Omar Khyam
Born1982 (age 40–41)
ArrestedBritain Security Official
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
Detained at HMP Full Sutton
Alleged to be
a member of		al-Muhajiroun

References
  1. "The jihadi house parties of hate: Britain's terror network offered an easy target the security services missed, says Shiv Malik". The Times. 2007-05-06. Archived from the original on 2011-06-29. Retrieved 2010-08-02. Within weeks two of the most dangerous British-born jihadi terrorists — Mohammad Sidique Khan, leader of the 7/7 suicide bombers, and Omar Khyam, leader of the so-called Crevice gang — were learning to make bombs at Malakand. Details of the party were disclosed this weekend by one of the guests, Hassan Butt, a former associate of the Islamist radicals who has turned against violence.
  2. Dominic Casciani (2007-06-14). "Jihadi diary: Inside the mind". BBC News. Retrieved 2010-08-03. Two of the men who trained with Zeeshan are better known. Mohammad Sidique Khan was the ringleader of the 2005 7 July suicide bombers. The second was Omar Khyam, the now jailed head of a plot to detonate a massive fertiliser bomb in England.
  3. Richard Brennan (2008-06-24). "Khawaja excited by guns and rockets, court hears". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2010-08-03. Khawaja went to the camp with Omar Khyam, a ringleader in the failed London bombing plot, for which Khawaja is an accused participant.
  4. "The five found guilty yesterday". The Guardian. 2007-05-01. Retrieved 2010-08-03. Omar Khyam, 25, from Crawley, was drawn to radical Islam in his teens.
  5. Gammell, Caroline (March 20, 2008). "Terrorists moved to new jail after death threats" – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
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