BBC\u2019s Inside Out London said, in a special report, that Hussain encouraged their journalist to target the bridge, and that he could do it alone or as part of a group.<\/p>\n
Hussain even offered to help train the reporter, revealing explicit tutorials on the internet with content including instructions on making bombs, and a detailed description on creating a fake suicide vest.<\/p>\n
The broadcaster said that the details of the plans bore a striking resemblance to the eventual attack that was carried out by terrorists Khuram Butt, 27, Rachid Redouane, 30, and Youseff Zaghba, 22, on June 3rd<\/sup> earlier this year. The three were shot and killed by the police at the scene.<\/p>\n In the report, which was researched over two years and is on Islamist extremism, the journalist made contact with Hussain via Twitter.<\/p>\n 21-year-old Hussain was killed in 2015 in Syria after a US drone attack struck Raqqa.<\/p>\n After his death, the BBC say the reporter was contacted by another so-called Islamic State recruiter who continued the narrative.<\/p>\n This contact detailed plans to assassinate a police officer, and instructions on obtaining firearms.<\/p>\n The undercover journalist said, “In July 2016, we discovered that the terrorist organisation was touting on Twitter and Facebook for British Muslims to stage attacks at specific London locations.<\/p>\n “We began conversing with one of their recruiters, who then invited us to chat privately on a secret messaging site. The authorities were fully aware of our contact with the terrorist organisation.”<\/p>\n Inside Out conducted a poll recently in which it was revealed 90% of the 6,546 surveyed across England believe there will be more terror attacks.<\/p>\n 29% of those surveyed said they feel less safe, when asked whether they feel more or less safe in public spaces compared with 12 months ago. 10% think that they, a family member or a good friend could be killed or injured in a terrorist attack.<\/p>\n 52% believe the security services should be given more powers to tackle terrorism, even if that is at the sacrifice of personal privacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Junaid Hussain tried to persuade an undercover BBC reporter to carry out an attack on London Bridge, a year before terrorists struck killing eight and injuring others. BBC\u2019s Inside Out London said, in a special report, that Hussain encouraged their journalist to target the bridge, and that he could do it alone or as part […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":23904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,38,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-national-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}