Black Huaraches Codenamed Used for Weapons by Terrorists

on 01/19/2016 at 10:39 am

The leaders of a British terror gang used coded phrasing on Twitter to discuss scoring weapons in preparation for a series of drive-by shootings of police and soldiers in London.

One of them being medical student Tarik Hassane — who at the time — was in Casablanca, Morocco, where he exchanged tweets with close friend Suhaib Majeed about sourcing “creps” or “black Huaraches”.

Brian Altman QC, prosecuting, told jurors that ordinarily that may be a reference to a certain type of Nike trainer, but in their secret language they meant firearms.

Days later, on August 25, 2014, Majeed reported back “I got it”, to which Hassane replied “kl” (cool).

Altman told a court that “This exchange, which was in coded language, is important because it related to the terror plot and suggests that there had been previous conversation about it and what was required to progress it.”

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