article_snippet: One figure in the group -- a 30-year-old British-Iranian identified only as "CE" who was allegedly trained by al Qaeda terrorists in Somalia in 2006 -- was later placed under a "control order," a British administrative measure to restrict the freedom of movement of terror suspects.
article_snippet: According to the court documents, security services believe five members of the group -- CE, Berjawi, BX, Ezzouek, Miah and Chentouf -- attended an al Qaeda training camp in Somalia in 2006 in which al Qaeda may have been instructed in the use of explosives.
article_snippet: an al Qaeda training camp in Somalia in 2006 in which they may have been instructed in the use of explosives was run by two veteran al Qaeda operatives, Saleh Nabhan and Fazul Mohammed, who instructed the British group to return to the United Kingdom "to carry out facilitation activities and to recruit individuals to work on behalf of al Qaeda and/or Al-Shabaab," according to the British government.
article_snippet: Saleh Nabhan and Fazul Mohammed were the most-wanted al Qaeda operatives in Africa and, according to a 2009 U.S. State Department cable, Nabhan and Fazul Mohammed training camps offered far more advanced instruction than that offered by Al-Shabaab.
article_snippet: The author proposed two months' training in Somalia for British and Western recruits selected for the attack, including target reconnaissance, hostage-taking, weapons and counter-surveillance.
article_snippet: According to the British government, J1, a Christian convert to Islam known in Islamist circles as Abdul Shakur, contacted bomber Hussain Osman by phone on the morning of the July 21 attempted attack.
article_snippet: British security officials estimate that a total of more than 100 British extremists traveled to join the terrorist group Al-Shabaab, according to published reports.
article_snippet: The Lebanese-born Berjawi, from St. John's Wood in West London, swiftly rose to a senior position in Al-Shabaab and likely continued to work closely with Fazul Mohammed's, according to a profile by Raffaello Pantucci, the director of international security studies at the Royal United Services Institute.
article_snippet: According to the documents, Berjawi remained in contact with the radical network Berjawi and Emwazi's belonged to in the United Kingdom while in Somalia.
article_snippet: Drone strikes and infighting in Al-Shabaab had made life increasingly difficult for foreign fighters in Somalia.
article_snippet: According to Robin Simcox, a research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society who has conducted extensive research on control orders, the previous control order system removed authorities' power to relocate terror suspects, making it easier for terror suspects to re-engage with terror suspects radical networks.