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Topic: Asif Hanif

	ISN Security Watch - Profile of a suicide bomber
		Hanif, 21, from Hounslow, West London, and Sharif, 26, from Derby in the East Midlands, were the first signs that Britain was exporting suicide-bombers - and the first warning that home-grown terrorists were ready for action.
		I met Asif Hanif in the Tottenham offices of al-Mouhajiroun in north London on 20 March 2003.
		Hanif criticized the Parisian cellâs lack of resolve, saying: âThe real problem with the ricin found in Paris was that it had never been used.
	www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?ID=12263 (2125 words)

	Britain's Indigenous Terror
		Asif Mohammed Hanif, aged 21, born and raised in Britain and living in an outer conurbation of London, and Omar Khan Sharif, 27, brought from Pakistan when he was six and raised in the industrial town of Derby, were British citizens.
		Hanif, who at one time worked in a store in the duty free area of London’s Heathrow Airport and had access to the baggage handling area inside the airport (although not to luggage that had already left the building) died in the Mike’s Bar bombing.
		Hanif grew up in a quiet London suburb, was a good student, studied business, and left home for university — possibly for Damascus University (details are not clear as of this writing).
	www.frontpagemag.com /articles/Printable.asp?ID=7662 (1895 words)

	WorldNetDaily: British Muslims moving into Mideast terror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Asif Hanif, 21, died after detonating an explosives belt he was wearing outside a Tel Aviv nightclub Tuesday.
		Hanif was raised in the suburb of Hounslow in west London.
		Hanif was studying Arabic at Damascus University and left for a tour of the Mideast to "explore his culture," according to British reports.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=32367 (406 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Israelis are 'sickos', say gloating bombers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Hanif and Sharif, both of Pakistani origin, were dressed in camouflage fatigues and carried Kalashnikovs in the video.
		Hanif berated Muslims in the West for being apathetic.
		Hanif talks of visiting a strawberry plantation and asked how a person should feel if their crop was destroyed by "some dude" with a truck after a hard day's work.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/03/09/wmid109.xml (732 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Suicide bomber's family in shock
		Asif Mohammed Hanif, 21, is said to have blown himself up in a Tel Aviv pub, killing three people and injuring more than 50.
		The street where the Hanif family live is a quiet road, their home a red brick house indistinguishable from many of the neighbours.
		Hanif was a "well liked and respected pupil" at Cranford Community College, Hounslow, which he attended for eight years, said headteacher Kevin Prunty.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/2991823.stm (861 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| What turned two happy teenagers into hate-driven suicide bombers? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Hanif was born in India, and grew up under the flight paths of Heathrow airport, in the large Asian community of Hounslow, west London.
		In Hounslow, neighbours of the Hanif family said his parents were on an extended trip abroad, having gone on the hajj pilgrimage and then to visit relatives in Pakistan.
		But another former pupil said that Hanif had been friendly with a boy at the school who ran away from home, leaving a note for his parents saying he was going to join the mujahideen in Lebanon.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/05/02/wbomb102.xml (1169 words)

	Middle East Information - MEIC Issues and analysis of the Middle East: Conflicts, News, History, Religions and ...
		For the Hanif and Sharif families in Britain, it brought utter bewilderment as the passport photographs of a father, brother and son was plastered over front pages and television screens across the country.
		Taz Hanif reflected the shared utter disbelief as, on the doorstep of the family home, he said of his brother: "He was just a big teddy bear.
		Friends and relatives of Hanif said he had developed an interest in politics by the time he left Cranford Community College in Hounslow in June 2000, where he was remembered for passion for spiritual matters and his love of cricket.
	middleeastinfo.org /article2589.html (2309 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Making of a martyr
		The Hanifs' house in Lela Avenue, Hounslow was often used to hold gatherings of the group because it was close to the mosque.
		Hanif was a well known and popular member of the group and they are finding it difficult to believe he would go against everything he has been taught.
		If this is not a simple case of mistaken identity, then Asif Hanif was somehow persuaded to abandon the path of peace and martyr himself for the Palestinian cause.
	www.guardian.co.uk /terrorism/story/0,12780,949104,00.html (1890 words)

	Observer \| 'A kind, really nice boy'
		Hanif did kill himself and three innocent bystanders at the bar.
		When Hanif went to the Tel Aviv bar, he must have assumed he would have killed Jews, and their deaths would have made him happy.
		Osama bin Laden was as Westernised as Omar Sharif, Asif Hanif and Zacarias Moussaoui.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4661287-110490,00.html (1387 words)

	eircom net Ireland-International / Irish news headlines from leading Irish newspapers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Parveen Sharif, 37, is accused of encouraging her brother Omar Sharif to blow himself up with another Briton, Asif Hanif, in a Hamas-sponsored attack at Mike's Place club in Tel Aviv in April, 2003.
		Hanif's bomb killed three people and wounded 65, while Sharif, 27, fled after failing to set off his bomb.
		"Asif Hanif and Omar Sharif had become the first British Muslims to give up their lives in a suicide bombing," said prosecutor Jonathan Laidlaw.
	home.eircom.net /content/reuters/uNews/6459007?view=Standard (455 words)

	Family of UK suicide bomber- knew of plans - failed to alert police aquitted :Sister told students "she was on Bin ...
		Hanif's bomb detonated, killing three and wounding 65 but Sharif fled after failing to set off his bomb.
		The court was told that Omar Sharif and Hanif, a student from Hounslow in west London, were recruited by the Palestinian Islamic militant group Hamas in England before travelling to Israel.
		He and Hanif, whose bomb did explode, were followers of the extremist cleric Omar Bakri Mohammad, now exiled from Britain and living in Lebanon.
	www.militantislammonitor.org /article/id/1326 (2395 words)

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		Asif Mohammed Hanif was a Palestinian terrorist who, under the cover provided by the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), slipped into Israel from Gaza on April 30, 2003 and went to a Tel Aviv beachfront pub strapped with bombs.
		There, he and an accomplice, Omar Khan Sharif, murdered three people and maimed 55, all innocents who were merely enjoying drinks and human company.
		Days earlier, Hanif and Sharif had met with members of the ISM for conversation and tea.
	www.discoverthenetwork.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=920 (108 words)

	Islamica Community Forums - Making of a martyr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		As the 2,000-strong congregation made its way home through the rain last week, those who knew Hanif were still struggling to fit the middle-class, learned and spiritual Muslim they knew to the picture of the Islamic martyr that was emerging from Israel - a 'shaheed' prepared to kill and be killed for the cause.
		The portrait is consistent with the impressions of Hanif's neighbours.
		Neither Hanif, nor his alleged co-conspirator, 26-year-old Omar Khan Sharif from Derby, fit the conventional portrait of the dispossessed Muslim extremist.
	www.islamicaweb.com /archive/t-9510 (3153 words)

	Correspondents Report - Suicide bombers believed to be British
		Asif Hanif and Omar Khan Sharif blew up a seafront pub in Tel Aviv.
		Asif Hanif died; Omar Sharif is now on the run after his bomb failed to detonate.
		Asif Harif left London three years ago to study Arabic in Damascus, and he is now dead.
	www.abc.net.au /correspondents/content/2003/s846355.htm (760 words)

	Daily News Digest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Hanif, 21, who came from Hounslow, is then reported to have violated his devout Muslim beliefs by drinking beer before carrying out the suicide attack.
		And it is here, believes Hanif's family, that he was converted from a "big teddy bear" and a "regular bloke" who loved his relatives and cricket, into a man ready to blow up himself and a crowd of late-night drinkers in a Tel Aviv pub last week supposedly in the name of his faith.
		Hanif died in the bombing on Wednesday and Sharif is on the run from Israeli police.
	www.fairuk.org /dnd/2003/05/DND20030506Tue.htm (16537 words)

	Politics \| Suicide bombers were known to MI5
		Last week Hanif, 21, detonated a device in the doorway of Mike's Place, a bar in Tel Aviv, killing himself and three Israelis.
		It is known that Mr Sharif, and possibly Hanif too, travelled to Syria, where they may have been persuaded and trained to carry out the attacks, possibly at Hizbollah or Hamas camps.
		A spokesman for al-Muhajiroun denied Hanif and Mr Sharif were members, but admitted that Mr Sharif had attended lectures by Omar Bakri.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4661777-110247,00.html (458 words)

	HUNT FOR BRITISH BOMBER
		Hanif, 21, was said to have set off the explosives at the entrance to the pub after the security guard on duty at the door physically prevented him from entering.
		Asif Mohammed Hanif, 21, died when he detonated his explosives.
		Hanif and Sharif are not common names in the Palestinian territories.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/903590/posts (1298 words)

	Polite and caring sons who turned to terror
		Asif Mohammed Hanif, who died in the attack, was born in India and was the second youngest of four brothers.
		It emerged last night that Hanif worked part-time at an "air side" duty free shop at Heathrow airport between 1998 and 2000 in terminal three, starting when he was 16.
		The friends, as others who knew Mr Hanif, rubbished a report claiming he had handed out political leaflets, saying he had laughed at those leafleting the mosque with hardline propaganda.
	www.hvk.org /articles/0503/91.html (1031 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Friends shocked by news of suicide bombers
		But if there was one thing everyone connected with Asif Mohammed Hanif agreed on yesterday, it was that there was nothing about him to suggest he would turn out to be a suicide bomber.
		While police in Israel and the UK continued their inquiries into the background of the two men, in Hounslow, the blinds were drawn at the Hanif residence.
		He had heard that Hanif was being held by the Israeli police for not having a passport.
	news.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=498752003 (1309 words)

	The Command Post - Global War On Terror - May 04, 2003 Archives
		Asif Mohammed Hanif and Omar Khan Sharif smuggled plastic explosives into Israel from Jordan inside copies of the Koran, the paper quoted Israel's Defence Minister Shaoul Mofaz as saying.
		The attack by Asif Mohammed Hanif, from Hounslow, west London, and Omar Khan Sharif, from Derby, was the first suicide strike by British citizens.
		Hanif blew himself up but Sharif fled when his bomb failed to detonate.
	www.command-post.org /gwot/archives/2003_05_04.html (1629 words)

	The Scotsman - International - Family 'encouraged' British bomber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Two men and a woman were killed and 65 were injured at Mike’s Place after Asif Hanif, 21, a student from Hounslow, west London, blew himself up outside the bar.
		Mr Laidlaw said that Asif Hanif and Omar Sharif became the first British Muslims to give up their lives, and it was the first time that Hamas had used British volunteers.
		Hanif detonated his explosive device, which was underneath his shirt, at the busy seaside bar.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /international.cfm?id=473002004 (549 words)

	British bombers expose Israel's security failings - smh.com.au
		Asif Hanif and Omar Sharif managed to escape the attention of highly trained and ultra-vigilant security forces at least three times.
		Mr Mofaz told cabinet that Hanif and Sharif apparently were recruited by a Syrian-based group while they were studying Arabic in Damascus.
		Had Hanif and Sharif been Palestinian, they would have been sent to a separate terminal from the main Israeli border terminal and subjected to a close inspection of every item in their luggage and an intimate body search.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/05/05/1051987656548.html (587 words)

	Jihad Watch: Bomb Britons' Hamas video released
		Hanif blew himself up in a beachfront pub called Mike's Place, and Sharif's body was later found washed up on an Israeli beach.
		Hanif, from Hounslow, west London, calls on Muslims everywhere to be "people of action".
		Hanif delivers a traditional speech of Koranic verses, and the men pray in a Gaza flat.
	www.jihadwatch.org /archives/001091.php (2104 words)

	The Joy of Semtex : UK suicide bomber's husband wrote "if not in this world then the next"- couple linked to Al ...
		Less than a week after that e-mail was sent, Sharif, a father of three children, and Asif Hanif, 21, from Hounslow, West London, attacked the bar with bomb vests taped to their bodies.
		The revelation that Asif Hanif, the terrorist who blew himself up in Tel Aviv on 29 April, and his accomplice and would-be bomber, Omar Khan Sharif, were British, should have come as no revelation.
		Thus the news that Hanif and Sharif passed through AM on their way to becoming terrorists should not come as a surprise.
	www.militantislammonitor.org /article/id/66 (10247 words)

	JobsNation.net - National News
		The assets of the man thought to be his accomplice have also been frozen.
		Three people were killed and 60 injured in the suicide attack on a bar in the waterfront area of Tel Aviv last Wednesday.
		The Israelis have also identified a second UK citizen, Omar Khan Sharif, as a second member of the bomb team who fled the scene after his device failed to explode.
	www.jobsnation.net /nationalnews.asp?id=16102 (343 words)

	Why War? Keywords: Rachel Corrie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		On April 25, 15 people, including British citizens Asif Hanif and Omar Khan Sharif, met at an ISM apartment in Rafah, Gaza and then proceeded to the site of Corrie's death, where they placed a flower.
		Five days later Hanif and Sharif carried out a suicide bombing of the Mike's Place restaurant in Tel Aviv, killing three persons.
		The Israeli government then imposed new restrictions on ISM activities based upon the presence of the two bombers at the Corrie memorial.
	www.why-war.com /encyclopedia/people/Rachel_Corrie (2355 words)

	Islam Online- News Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Hanif is reportedly the first British citizen involved in bombing mission against Israeli targets
		Israeli TV showed Thursday, May 1, identity documents naming the bomber as Asif Hanif, 21, and the other as Omar Sharif, 27.
		Hanif, the first British citizen involved in bombing missions against Israeli targets, detonated an explosive device strapped to his body as he tried to enter Mike's Place, a beachfront night club near the U.S. Embassy, police spokesman Gil Kleiman said.
	www.islam-online.net /English/News/2003-05/01/article08.shtml (535 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| 7/7 bomber linked to Israel pair
		Asif Hanif and Omar Sharif attacked an Israeli bar in 2003
		In the Israeli attack Londoner Hanif, 21, killed three people and injured 55 by blowing himself up at Mike's Place in Tel Aviv.
		Mr Fiaz's evidence, which he has not told police about, raises the possibility that Khan, a former teaching assistant from Leeds, was radicalised well before previously realised.
	feeds.britainnews.net /?rid=6335fbaa1794f69e&cat=fad6c6ce3bc72160&f=1 (563 words)

	Scotsman.com News - UK - British suicide bombers cleared by MI5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Asif Mohammed Hanif and Omar Khan Sharif were known to MI5 officers investigating Islamic terrorism and the al-Muhajiroun movement, but officers decided not to put them under observation after deciding they were on the fringes of the group.
		Hanif, 21, from Hounslow, West London, killed himself and three Israelis when he detonated an explosive belt in the doorway of Mike’s Place, a bar in Tel Aviv.
		MI5 officers knew for several years that he had attended meetings of the al-Muhajiroun, which advocates the overthrow of Western democracies, in his home town and that Hanif attended meetings of the group at the Hounslow Masjid, the newspaper claimed.
	news.scotsman.com /uk.cfm?id=511932003 (721 words)

	"British Suicide Bombers From Rachel Corrie's ISM?" by Jim Sparkman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Sharif's accomplice, Asif Mohammed Hanif, 21, from Hounslow, west London, who died when his device detonated killing three people, was called ''huggy bear'' by his friends.
		Hanif, a former business studies student, was said to have shunned radicals who leafleted his mosque in west London.
		His three other brothers and parents were yesterday struggling to come to terms with the reports of his death.
	www.chronwatch.com /content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=2540&catcode=24 (617 words)

	Lateline - 09/03/2004: Hamas release video of British suicide bombers
		The remarkable thing is that a video featuring the bombers before their deaths reveals them to be British citizens.
		ASIF HANIF, SUICIDE BOMBER: Muslims are being killed every day, day in day out, every day.
		ASIF HANIF: We have problems and we seek Tony Blair and George Bush to help us.
	www.abc.net.au /lateline/content/2004/s1062446.htm (389 words)

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